CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: August 21, 1968
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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21 August 1968
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No. 0240/68
21 August 1968
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
USSR-Czechoslovakia: Soviet and other Warsaw Pact
troops moving into Czechoslovakia. (Page 1)
USSR: The Soviets are dealing cautiously with some
of the better known free thinkers. (Page 3)
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 5)
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Congo (Brazzaville): The struggle for power which
began last mont is not over. (Page 7)
Indonesia: Foreign Minister Malik believes counter-
subversion and subregional organizations are keys
to Asian defense. (Page 8)
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Dominican Republic: Political relations eased
(Page 9
Brazil: Demonstrations considered (Page 9)
Ecuador: Eastern Europe purchase (Page 10)
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C USSR-Czechoslovakia: (Information as of 2330 EDT)
At about 2300 hours, local time Prague, (1800
hours EDT) yesterday Soviet, Polish, East German,
Hungarian and Bulgarian troops began moving into
Czechoslovakia, according to a Prague radiobroadcast.
Prague radio stated that the troops were moving
into Czechoslovakia without the sanction of Czecho-
slovak party and government leaders. It appealed to
all citizens to maintain calm and to offer no resis-
tance to the troops moving into the country. Accord-
ing to the broadcast no commands had been issued to
Czechoslovak military forces to defend the country.
In Prague, the National Assembly (parliament) and
the party central committee immediately assembled.
They apparently are still in session.
There is as yet no indication of the size of
the ground forces moving into Czechoslovakia. It
is likely that deployment occurred from assembly
positions on Czechoslovakia's borders in East Ger-
many, Poland, the USSR, and Hungary.
A member of the Soviet delegation to the UN
has stated that the Soviet Government and its War-
saw Pact allies were intervening militarily in
Czechoslovakia at the request of the Czechoslovak
Government. Otherwise, there has been no official
Soviet statement, either on the intervention or
on the pretext on which the action is based.
According to a press report from London, tele-
phone contact between Britain and the Soviet Union
was cut soon after Prague radio's announcement of
the intervention.
The Soviet intervention came hard on the re-
port of the convening of an extraordinary session
of the Soviet Central Committee. Soviet leaders
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resulted from a rebellion within the politburo against
policies which, in recent weeks, have appeared to put
the USSR on the short end in the Soviet-Czechoslovak
last-minute approval of the Central Committee for
a decision which had already been made. The cir-
cumstances raise the possibility that the decision
suggests that the Soviet leadership was seeking the
conflict.
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USSR: The Soviet regime, for all its concern
about indiscipline among its intellectuals, is evi-
dently dealing cautiously with some of the better
known cases of free thinking.
Soviet physicist Andrey Sakharov, whose essay
proposing Soviet-US cooperation in solving mankind's
problems was published in the New York Times last
month, reportedly was recently ordered by politburo
member Mikhail Suslov to disavow his memorandum.
Sakharov refused and, according to this report, no
further action has been taken against him.
A Western scientist who recently visited Dubna,
the nuclear studies center, has reported that Sak-
harov's essay had been read by everyone there.
The regime seems to be dealing gingerly with
other notable protestors such as Pavel Litvinov,
physicist and grandson of a former Soviet foreign
minister. Litvinov was a leader of the protests
against the trial and imprisonment earlier this
year of the intellectual dissidents, Ginzburg and
Galanskova Petitions against the trial were signed
by a number of prominent scientists, as well as by
Litvinov. though they
have no ha Information on e w erea outs of these
people, believe that they are still at large.
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Leningrad intellectuals were arrested recently for
signing a petition supporting the Czechoslovak re-
form program. Five are still detained and have
been charged with "anti-Soviet activity." Soviet
intellectuals report that it is now as difficult
to travel to Yu oslavia Poland, and Czechoslovakia
as to the US.
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C Vietnam:
South Vietnam: Some sharp fighting continued
in northern III Corps on 19-20 August, and new clashes
erupted elsewhere in South Vietnam.
In Tay Ninh Province, an estimated enemy regi-
ment attacked two US Army mechanized companies east
of the provincial capital, destroying five armored
personnel carriers and killing nine US troops at a
cost of 67 Communist dead. Three Special Forces
camps in the area were hit by enemy mortar fire dur-
ing the night of 19-20 August, and enemy troops were
reportedly digging in near the Loc Ninh Special Forces
camp.
In the Saigon area, US troops killed 81 Viet
Cong in a day-long battle 17 miles south of the cap-
ital.
The heaviest allied losses in a single action
since the beginning of the latest series of attacks
occurred south of Da Nang. A strong Communist force
overran a combined US Marine South Vietnamese out-
post early on 20 August, killing all 34 defenders.
In a series of actions in the same area, US troops
killed nearly 100 Communists.
North Vietnam: Vietnamese Communist propaganda
so far has treated the Tay Ninh attacks in low key.
There has not yet been any apparent effort to pub-
licize the attacks as the "third phase" of the gen-
eral offensive. On the contrary, an authoritative
commentary in the Hanoi party daily and Hanoi radio
have both characterized the latest coordinated at-
tacks merely as part of the fighting which has been
going on ever since Tet. (Map) 7
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Congo (Brazzaville): The power struggle which
began last month is not yet over.
Recently installed army commander Ngouabi, a
northerner who for the present has emerged as Brazza-
ville's new strongman, has given most key positions
on the country's new 12-man top political directo-
rate to extremists. Ngouabi, who presides over the
directorate, has announced that it is to exercise
all political and governmental power until Brazza-
ville's institutions can be overhauled and new elec-
tions held.
The directorate has claimed a veto power over
any action of President Massamba-Debat, a relative
moderate, as well as control over the cabinet. The
latter now is composed mainly of technicians and
pro-Massamba figures.
Although the President presently appears
eclipsed by Ngouabi and the extremists, he has
survived numerous intrigues during the past five
years, largely because he is adept at the art of
tribal politics. He is reported to be assessing
his strength within the divided armed forces and
may yet recoup his position through the backing of
moderate army elements and southern tribal groups.
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Indonesia: Foreign Minister Malik believes
Asian defense must ultimately rest on national pro-
grams of countersu,bvers.ion, supplemented by a series
of subregional organizations.
In a wide-ranging discussion with Ambassador
Green and visiting US officials, Malik reflected
the general Indonesian ambition to develop a pre-
dominant position in Southeast Asia.
Malik expects that one of the subregional group-
ings will be dominated by Japan and will include
Taiwan and Korea. A second, in Southeast Asia, will
be led by Indonesia and will include the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations and perhaps eventually
Cambodia. Australia and New Zealand, he believes,
will be linked to Asian countries through bilateral
ties with Indonesia and possibly with other South-
east Asian states.
The Indonesian foreign minister said that he
did not object to a US presence in the Indian Ocean
area, particularly if it were not associated with
a permanent and large military force, and in fact,
that he hoped US power would remain available "over
the horizon" in case of an emergency. Nevertheless,
Malik and other leaders in Djakarta, both military
and civilian, see Indonesia as benefiting from an
eventual US withdrawal, not only from Vietnam but
from all of Southeast Asia.
Malik commented that US bases in the Philippines
were a matter between the Philippines and the US.
He added that there would be time to make "other
arrangements" during the 25 years remaining of the
US-Philippines greement.
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Dominican Re ublic: President Balaguer has
eased relations with the opposition Dominican Rev-
olutionary Party by saying that he will permit the
party's radio program--suspended since early July--
to return to the air. Leaders of the party's mod-
erate wing have indicated they will try to tone
down the inflammatory content of some of the broad-
casts. Balaguer's conciliatory attitude appears to
have contributed to the party's decision to call a
halt to plans by its radical members to create dis-
orders during the inauguration on 16 August of the
new mayor of Santo Domingo. The outgoing mayor, a
member of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, was
replaced by a supporter of President Bala uer.
Brazil: Students are considering street demon-
strations Rio de Janeiro again if their demands
for the release of radical student leader Vladimir
Palmeira continue to be ignored. Palmeira has been
in custody since 3 August. Although his detention
has provided a convenient issue for radical students,
it has also deprived them of their most effective
leader. His absence and the presence of state and
military police units in downtown Rio have prevented
major demonstrations since early August, and most
students probably will hesitate to engage in new
Protests until security forces are less in evidence.
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Ecuador: A potential appointee to President-
elect Velasco's cabinet has proposed that Ecuador
seek to buy pipe from Eastern Europe and sell it to
Texaco-Gulf for construction of a trans-Andean pipe-
line. This pipeline would transport crude oil from
newly discovered petroleum deposits in eastern Ecuador
to an outlet on the Pacific coast. The proposed trans-
action would enable Ecuador to liquidate a major part
of credit balances totaling $6.7 million with Poland,
East Germany, and Hungary and receive dollars from
the sale of the pipe to Texaco-Gulf.
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