CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: October 13, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
RELATING TO NATIONAL SECURITY
STATE review(s) completed.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
2. France - South Vietnam: Viet Cong organization
may be permitted to establish information office
in Paris. (Page 3)
3. Israel-Syria: Israelis appear to be preparing for
military action to deter terrorism, (Page 4)
4. Congo (Kinshasa): Mobutu confident and ready to
take on new opponents. (Page 5)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EDT)
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Military Situation in South Vietnam: Contacts be-
tween allied and Communist forces in South Vietnam
during the past 24 hours were light. In the two major
allied efforts continuing in the northern and central part
of the country; Operation PRAIRIE in Quang Tri Prov-
ince, and Operation IRVING in Binh Dinh Province, only
small-unit clashes have been reported. (Map)
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narn esii-I-eader ship is not interested in negotiations on
any terms except its own,
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to en ure prolonged hardship in support of this hard line
and that the mood of the people is unchanged by US. bomb-
ing efforts. There is less enthusiasm for the war than
DRV propaganda would imply, but there is no evidence
of dissension directed against the regime.
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has been made in the dispersal of industry or evacuation
of people from the city of Hanoi. Trains continue to
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France - South Vietnam, France may let the Na-
tional Liberation Front of South Vietnam establish an
"information office" in Paris.
The French Foreign Ministry official directly re-
sponsible, Etienne Manac'h, told a US official that
France would not permit the Viet Cong to be officially
represented in Paris but he did not rule out the possi-
bility that the Front would be allowed to open an in-
formation offices He argued that there were world-
wide precedents for permitting information activities
even though official recognition was lacking.
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 Israel-Syria: Israel appears to be preparing to
take strong military action against Syria, if it believes
it necessary, to deter further terrorist incidents.
Feelings are running high in Israel in both offi-
cial and public circles as a result of a mining incident
on 8 October near the Syrian border in which four
policemen were killed. The Israelis also blame
Syrian- supported terrorists for an incident on 7 Oc-
tober in which an apartment house in the Israeli-
controlled section of Jerusalem was slightly damaged
by explosives.
Although the official Israeli reaction thus far has
been restrained, any further terrorist acts would al-
most certainly draw an aggressive military move.
Prime Minister Eshkol has publicly stated that the
Israelis would decide the manner and the time of the
response.
In view of Syria's advantages with regard to ter-
rain, any Israeli strike would probably involve the
use of air power. F_ I
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Congo (Kinshasa): President Mobutu evidently is
in a confident mood after his recent victories over ex-
ternal and internal opponents and is ready to take on
others.
Mobutu feels
that he has won against the Belgians and a Portuguese
and that he will have similar success against other
Western powers. He has broken relations with Portugal
and expects the UN Security Council to condemn alleged
Portuguese assistance to Tsho:mbist forces in Angola.
Mobutu is holding in abeyance his order closing all con-
sulates in the Congo.
A recent statement to the press implied that the US
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a parliamentary commission on 11 October that the US
Embassy was working against him.
On the domestic front, the 2,300 Katangan mutineers
in Punia slowly are being disarmed and returned home.
The estimated 200 mutineers who refused to surrender
and fled eastward last Friday have been cornered by
mercenary forces north of Shabunda. Mobutu's position
has also been enhanced by the surrender of some 1,500
former rebels at Baraka.
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Egypt: Nasir is curbing activities of Marxist ex-
tremists within the Arab Socialist Union (ASU), his
state- controlled political organization. Four prom-
inent leftist members of the ASU were detained last
weekend for questioning and have been placed under
house arrest. Members of the ASU youth organiza-
tion have also been interrogated. By these steps Nasir
is probably warning extreme leftist elements against
exploiting the current climate of anti-Westernism to
undertake independent attion.
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Haiti: Disgruntlement in three coastal cities is
again giving rise to coup rumors in Port-au-Prince.
Ambassador Timmons believes that the presence of
US naval forces in Haiti during the recent relief.' op-
erations in the wake of Hurricane Inez encouraged
the "ever-wishful thinking" of the perennial plotters.
There have also been more frequent reports lately
of restiveness among some Haitian Army officers.
It is doubtful that the dissidents will move against
Duvalier as long as a commitment of US support is
denied them.
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