CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A014800040002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 21, 1969
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Secret
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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c 196
21 October 1969
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El Salvador - Honduras: Salvador is beginning to
show some flexibility. (Page 6)
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El Salvador - Honduras: The Salvadorans are
beginning to show some flexibility in their search
for a formula to restore peaceful relations with
Honduras.
The major stumbling block remains Honduras' re-
fusal to open its section of the Pan American High-
way until El Salvador agrees to talks on the border
dispute. The Salvadoran negotiating team, which has
been in Washington for the past two weeks, hopes that
the impasse might be ended if President Sanchez de-
clares unilaterally that El Salvador will adhere to
the El Amatillo treaty of 1962 and that he intends
to put it into effect when normal relations with
Honduras are restored.
This proposal may not be acceptable to Honduras,
however. The 1962 agreement merely provided for a
study commission to draw up a plan for proceeding
on the problem of border definition and demarcation,
and did not result in clarification of the border.
Therefore, the Hondurans will probably want some
reasonable assurance that an agreement will actually
be reached this time. Moreover, they are likely to
delay reopening the highway until normal relations
have been re-established and border talks are under
way.
El Salvador would have trouble meeting these
conditions and would be particularly unwilling to
negotiate under a deadline. The Salvadoran news
media's anti-Honduran propaganda campaign has kept
public attention focused on the dispute, and the
Salvadoran Government fears the political repercus-
sions which might arise if it appeared to knuckle
under.
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