CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: September 6, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
RELATING TO NATIONAL SECURITY
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
2 Communist China: Red Guard activity indicates
? growing army role and emergence of Lin Piao as
Guard leader. (Page 3)
3. Indonesia-USSR: Foreign Minister Malik will not
visit the Soviet Union. (Page 4)
4. Congo (Kinshasa)-Belgium: Mobutu plans to send
foreign minister to Brussels to seek rapproche-
ment. (Page 5)
5. Notes: Iraq; USSR-US. (Page 6)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EDT)
Political Developments in South Vietnam: With
the constituent assembly election only five days off,
the Saigon government is intensifying its efforts to in-
fluence the voting.
In an attempt to strengthen their position with the
voters, Saigon leaders are considering the release of
some Buddhist and Catholic political prisoners. Pre-
mier Ky at last report was opposed to such a move.
However, Chief of State Thieu and Tran Van An, a
prominent civilian member of the ruling Directorate,
are said to have discussed freeing about 50 detainees
before the election for obvious political reasons.
The government remains concerned about the
effects Thich Tri Quang's death would have on Buddhist
voters, The monk was still "quite strong" on 2 Sep-
tember and was sustaining himself on sugared liquid
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near future from physical dissipation associated with
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strong enough will to end his life if he decided to do so.
The government continues its efforts to tighten
physical security for voters. It issued a strongly
worded decree on 29 August stipulating prison terms
at hard labor for persons interfering with citizens'
right to vote. According to a US Embassy assessment
of Communist antielection activities, several polling
places have already been bombed and hundreds of in-
cidents of terror have taken place in the past few weeks.
(continued)
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. Military Situation in South Vietnam: A Viet Cong
mortar attack on the 1st Air Cavalry Division base at
Camp Radcliffe near An Khe in the central highlands
killed four US soldiers and wounded 61. Of 77 heli-
copters hit, five were totally destroyed and 61 were
damaged. Some 43 of the damaged aircraft will re-
quire a week or more of repair. (See Map)
Communist Economic Developments: North Viet-
nam has concluded new economic aid pacts with Com-
munist China and North Korea. The pacts were signed j
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politburo member Le Thanh Nghi. The "mission. left /
for Moscow on 4 September and will visit other Eastern j
European capitals, according to Moscow radio.
The Chinese and Koreans, recognizing that Hanoi
will be unable to finance its growing needs for economic
and military aid, agreed to put their assistance on a
grant basis.
tenance of essential economic output and services.
1965 reflected stepped-up assistance for Hanoi's eco-
nomic development plan, but that program is being de-
emphasized as Hanoi devotes increasing amounts of its
resources to reconstruction, rehabilitation, and main-
The composition of aid to North Vietnam will also
probably change in the coming year. Agreements in
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Communist China-. Press coverage of Red Guard
activity indicates a growing army role in the - organiza-
tion and the emergence of Lin Piao as Guard leader.
News stories, as yet unconfirmed by official Chi-
nese broadcasts, report that Lin is "commander in chief"
of the Guards. Marshal Ho Lung is identified as the
"chief of staff, " and Chou En- lai as the "adviser" of the
organization,
The Guards are being shaken down into a regular
organization under tighter control. Although violent
and often absurd Guard activity is still reported, the
youths are under increased pressure to take a more
moderate line,
A People's Daily editorial on 4 September urged the
Guards to avoid coercion, and instead rely on "reason"
even in dealing with class enemies. The editorial attri-
butes this instruction--put forward on 31 August by Lin
Piao--to Mao Tse-tung himself,
Lin Piao continues to receive propaganda attention
second only to Mao. On 3 September the Chinese repub-
lished his article on "People's War" first issued a year
ago. The army is said to have been studying Lin's
"thought" for the past year.
An article in Liberation Army Journal, broadcast
on 4 September, reported the views of an army division
commander inspired by Mao's ideas and Lin Piao's
article. This article stressed the long-range character
of the struggle against the US and the importance of the
rolp to be played by the "people" elsewhere in the world.
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Indonesia-USSR. Indonesian Foreign Minister Malik
will not visit the Soviet Union as he had planned this month.
Malik had hoped to discuss rescheduling Indonesia's
debt, the status of present Soviet economic projects, and
new credits, Moscow refused his request to visit on the
grounds that Soviet leaders were proceeding with "long-
standing arrangements"- -presumably vacation and travel
plans--during the time Malik wished to be in the USSR.
Since he will, not be visiting Moscow, Malik has also
canceled plans to visit Poland and Czechoslovakia. Malik
himself repeatedly postponed visiting the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe because of Indonesian domestic develop-
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The Soviet Union is Indonesia's largest single creditor.
In July, Soviet technical representatives told the Indone-
sians that the USSR might reschedule payments on delivered
military equipment, which constitutes the bulk of Indone-
sia's debt, but would find it "difficult" to postpone payments
on economic debts. A meeting of Indonesia's Western
creditors is scheduled to be held in Tokyo on 19 and 20
September,
country's massive foreign debt.
Indonesian economists state that they cannot make
definitive plans for critically needed domestic stabiliza-
tion until new payment schedules are arranged on the
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Congo (Kinshasa) - Belgium: President Mobutu
plans to send Foreign Minister Bomboko to Brussels
this week to seek a rapprochement.
Bomboko will attempt to see Belgian Foreign
Minister Harmel informally as a prelude to further
discussion. It is not clear just which issues the
Congolese will be willing to discuss, but this is the
first indication since June they might be ready to
negotiate on the disputes which have been plaguing
Congolese- Belgian relations.
The touchiest issues at the moment are the level
of Belgian assistance, a tangle of complex economic
problems, and the appointment of a new ranking Con-
golese representative in Brussels who, the Belgians
believe, was responsible for past brutal treatment of
Belgians in the Congo.
Late last week, Brussels itself decided to pursue
a conciliatory policy if the Congolese made this course
possible. The Congolese tendency to take drastic uni-
lateral action may complicate the situation again, however.
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Iraq: Rumors of an imminent cabinet reshuffle are
proliferating in. Baghdad. Prime Minister Naji Talib has
said that he wants to form a national. coalition government
including both Baathists and Nasiristso The inclusion of
these competing elements, however, would almost cer-
tainly produce still another basically unstable arrangement.
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USSR-US: Fedorenko, the chief Soviet UN delegate,
has told Ambassador Goldberg the USSR wants to resume
bilateral talks with the US on outer space, Fedorenko
said the talks could take place as soon as Ambassador
Morozov, who normally handles this subject, returns to
New York and prior to the UN outer space legal subcom-
mittee session on 12 September. Soviet willingness to
hold early bilateral talks suggests that Soviet leaders
wish to reach agreement on the peaceful uses of outer
space during the upcoming UN General Assembly.
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