CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: February 17, 1969
• Content Type: REPORT

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17 February 1969
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No. 0041/69
17 February 1969
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
South Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
Poland: Gomulka and his challenger Moczar are at-
tempt ni g to paper over the gulf between them.
(Page 2)
Cyprus : Interco:rmunal talks (Page 3)
Indonesia - Communist China: Diplomatic relations
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South Vietnam: Military activity remained
light over the wee:k:end as the Communists generally
observed their cease-fire.
Only minor enemy truce violations, mostly ex-
changes of small-arms fire, have been reported since
the Communist-declared cease-fire began on the morn-
ing of 15 February. A number of small ground actions
resulted from continuing allied offensive sweeps,
however, and a four-hour battle initiated by South
Vietnamese troops in the delta cost the Viet Cong
49 dead. In Tay Ninh Province northwest of Saigon
enemy gunners shot down three US helicopters, kill-
ing five Americans and wounding 18.
The allied 24-hour cease-fire has been marred
by firing incidents in widespread parts of the coun-
ty . No significant fighting has developed.
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Poland: Party leader Gomulka and his erstwhile
challenger, hard-line party secretary Moczar, are
making an attempt to paper over the gulf between
them.
They have found common cause in attacking the
Western broadcasts about factionalism within the
Polish party, most of which have been beamed into
Poland by Radio Free Europe (RFE). These reports
have been widely heard and believed.
Speaking to the Warsaw party organization on 8
February, Gomulka stressed stability and party un-
ity, and blasted "foreign reports" of discord among
the leadership. Gomulka singled out programs con-
cerning "comrade Moczar" for condemnation, calling
them "trash, base fabrications," and "provocative
lies." On the same day, Moczar spoke out against
RFE's "deceitful information meant to split the
unity and cohesion of our society."
Last year Moczar launched the most serious chal-
lenge since 1956 to Gomulka's leadership. In view
of the Czechoslovak situation, his timing was bad.
The Soviets supported Gomulka, and the party rank
and file followed suit. Gomulka received a new
lease on life at the party congress last November.
Since then, he has worked toward healing the party's
wounds. Moczar seems to be carrying out his part of
a probable compromise agreement.
This truce may be only temporary. Gomulka evi-
dently remains cautious, and wants to prevent Moc-
zar from building on last year's political power
base. Last month, for example, Gomulka reportedly
purged a number of lesser ranking Moczar supporters
from the party-government bureaucracy, apparently
for failing to respect the stress, since the con-
gress, on party unity.
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Cyprus: Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot
negotiator in the intercommunal talks with the
Turkish Cypriots, has said that Athens' interfer-
ence in Cypriot politics has made his position
untenable and is threatening to resign. Clerides
also claims that the rigid attitude of his Greek
Cypriot colleagues on Turkish Cypriot demands for
local authority will bar any further progress in
the talks. Should he resign, the talks would be
imperiled. F77 I
Indonesia - Communist China: The Indonesian
Foreign Ministry has been rebuffed in its opening
gambit toward diplomatic relations with Communist
China. When it sent word recently to Peking, via
Rumania which represents Chinese interests in
Djakarta, that Indonesia would be receptive to
Chinese initiatives, Peking reportedly replied
that any initiatives must come from Indonesia be-
cause it, not China, had suspended relations in
1967.
The process of restoring relations is likely
to be prolonged. Paralleling the shadow boxing on
initiatives between Indonesia and China will be
the Indonesian domestic controversy between the
Foreign Ministry and the military. Although the
military agree that resumed ties will be necessary
eventually, they are concerned that subversion
would accompany a Chinese presence in Indonesia
and they would like to postpone a Chinese di lo-
matic return as long as possible.
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