CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: May 22, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
DEPT OF STATE review(s) completed.
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22 May 1967
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22 May 1967
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
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Hong Kong: Local Communists continue efforts to
provoke exploitable incidents. (Page 9)
Peru: New political crisis may be impending
Page 10)
North Korea - South Korea: Explosion demolishes
US barracks (Page 1O
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EDT)
The Military Situation in South Vietnam: Major
ground fighting was reported throughout the four corps
areas of South Vietnam during the weekend, the heavi-
est in I Corps.
Fourteen US Marine and ARVN battalions continued
to press four coordinated offensives against an estimated
9,000 North Vietnamese Army (NVA) regulars in the
southern portion of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and in
adjacent areas of northeastern Quang Tri Province. As
of 21 May, Operations HICKORY, BEAU CHARGER,
BELT TIGHT, and LAM SON 54 had resulted in cumula-
tive enemy losses of 550 killed as against allied casual-
ties of 83 killed (56 US) and 648 wounded (466 US).
Elsewhere in Quang Tri Province, two battalions of
the 1st ARVN Regiment fought a 14-hour engagement on
20-21 May with an estimated NVA battalion some five
miles east of Quang Tri City. South Vietnamese forces
reported killing 152 Communist troops and capturing 76
weapons while losing 49 killed, 96 wounded, and 26 miss-
ing. Additionally, on 21 May, North Vietnamese gun
crews launched artillery and mortar attacks against the
forward headquarters of the 3rd US Marine Division at
Dong Ha in the province's northeastern sector and against
the allied special forces camp at Lang Vei in the western
sector near the Lao border.
On. 20 May, in the western highlands, three compa-
nies of the US 4th Infantry Division (Operation FRANCIS
MARION) in night defensive positions some 21 miles south-
west of Pleiku City were shelled by an estimated 225 rounds
of rocket and mortar fire. In the enemy ground assault
that followed, 18 US troops were killed and 76 wounded as
compared with known Communist losses of 18 killed. This
engagement appears to be another in a series of recent in-
dicators suggesting that elements of the five-regiment NVA
"B-3 Front" western highland military command may be
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about to commence major operations against allied posi-
tions in the Pleiku/Kontum/Ca:mbodia tri-border area.
Elements of the US 101st Airborne Division conduct-
ing Operation MALHEUR in southern Quang Ngai Prov-
ince fought a 12-hour running battle with an estimated
two enemy companies near Due Pho on 21 May. Sixty-
one Viet Cong were killed; American losses were seven
killed and 22 wounded. Northeast of Saigon, in Long
Khanh Province, units of the US 11th Armored Cavalry
Regiment participating in Operation KITTY HAWK sus-
tained casualties of 18 killed and 32 wounded on 21 May
when they prematurely triggered a battalion- sized Viet
Cong ambush along Route 1 near Xuan Loc.
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Mekong Delta province of Phong Dinh where, on 20-21
May, elements of the 21st ARVN Division killed 98 Viet
Cong during Operation DAN CHI 287/B some 16 miles
west of Can Tho. (Maps)
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Military Developments in North Vietnam: Twelve
US aircraft were lost in air action over North Vietnam
during the past weekend. Four of these losses were at-
tributed to AAA-fire, one to an SA-2 missile, one to a
MIG- 17, and the others to unknown causes. Confirmed
North Vietnamese losses in air engagements with US
strike aircraft included seven MIG- 17s and three MIG-
21s.
For the first time in the air war against North Viet-
nam, US aircraft on 19 and 21 May attacked the Hanoi
thermal power plant, located approximately one mile
north of the city's center. A total of six US Navy A-4E
aircraft--two on the 19th and four on the 21st--made the
strikes, with each aircraft employing WALLEYE "TV-
guided" air-to-ground missiles.
Preliminary pilot reports indicated probable heavy
damage to the plant's generator hall and boiler house,
with no apparent secondary damage in nearby populated
areas. At least 40 airborne SA-2s were encountered by
US strike pilots, in addition to intensely heavy AAA-fire.
Four US aircraft supporting the principal A-4E strike
force were lost during the two raids.
The thermal power plant provided 17 percent of the
DRV's total electric power output and served as the ma-
jor source of energy for Hanoi, the capital's military
and industrial facilities, and was a supplemental source
for Haiphong. Other major targets included the Van Dien
Army Supply/SAM Depot, the Bac Giang and Haiphong
West thermal power plants, and Kep and Hoa Lac airfields.
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Hong Kong: Local Communists are staging larger
and more militant demonstrations probably in an effort
to provoke incidents they can exploit.
On 21 May Communist demonstrators defied a re-
cently imposed ban on disorderly gatherings. Barbed
wire barricades had been erected around Government
House. In the ensuing demonstrations, riot police used
tear gas and truncheon charges to disperse the mobs.
There were numerous arrests and the Communists will
doubtless make renewed charges of "police brutality."
The Communist press in Hong Kong in inflammatory
language alleged yesterday that thousands of persons
were wounded, dead, or missing.
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This morning, according to press reports, club
wielding police repeatedly charged a mob of demonstra-
tors on the island, causing numerous injuries and mak-
ing further arrests. Anall-night curfew has been imposed.
In nearby Macao, Communist groups have been har-
assing British Consular personnel in protest over Brit-
ish actions in Hong Kong. According to the press, the
Portuguese have failed to provide police protection for
the consulate. Communist elements over the weekend
staged the largest demonstrations since the anti-Portu-
guese outbreak last winter.
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NOTES
Peru: A political crisis may be impending as a re-
sult of the continuing refusal of the opposition-controlled
Congress to enact President Belaunde's tax reform.
The US Embassy reports that rumors are circulating
in Lima of some unspecified move by the military in
support of the President.
T e U Embassy
does no believe that military y in ervention is likely,
but Belaunde may be contemplating some radical move.
North Korea - South Korea: Two US soldiers were
killed and 18 others injured, including two ROK troopers,
yesterday when four explosive charges demolished two 2nd
Infantry Division barracks north of the Imjin River in the
area of the Demilitarized Zone. A fifth satchel charge
failed to detonate. One other US soldier has died this year
in an incident in the area of the Demilitarized Zone. I
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