CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 21, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

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No. 0148/73
21 June 1973
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CHILE: Communists and Socialists press Allende to
take harder line against opposition. (Page 1)
WESTERN EUROPE - US: Allies will consider response
to US request for new statement on Atlantic relations.
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ARGENTINA: Shoot-out disrupts Peron's homecoming.
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CHILE: Tensions continue at an abnormally high
level and may rise further as a result of large dem-
onstrations planned for today. Communist leaders
have joined the Socialists in forcing a harder line
on President Allende that could lead to a showdown
with the opposition.
The unprecedented joint public rebuke to
Allende on 16 June by the two major parties in his
Popular Unity (UP) coalition surfaced long-standing
resentment against his high-handed attitude toward
them. Their slap at the President for meeting with
striking copper workers stalled his efforts to ne-
gotiate an end to the strike and heightened the mood
of confrontation now permeating Chile. Galled by the
use of the strike and other issues to obstruct or
defy the government, the rival Communists and So-
cialists are acting in unusual concert to repress
the opposition. This involves a marked--but probably
tactical--shift by the Communists away from their
usual support of Allende's strategy of compromise to
a hard line and resort to force.
Meanwhile, Allende is pressing his efforts to
get the armed services and national police into his
cabinet, but he has found it difficult to devise
terms acceptable to both military and UP leaders.
On this issue, the Socialists may be shifting posi-
tions. Perhaps reassured by the effective army and
police crackdown on opposition forces, the Socialists
appear less opposed than before to naming selected
military officers as ministers. In addition, So-
cialist Defense Minister Toha announced on 19 June
that "new measures benefiting the men in uniform"
were about to be taken.
Security forces are engaged almost constantly
in handling pro- and anti-government demonstrations.
A general strike in three major cities, a "long
march" beginning in southern Chile, and a mass
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rally are scheduled by the UP for today. The admin-
istration hopes they will offset competing strikes
and a large rally staged by the opposition earlier
this week. Perhaps more important, UP leaders
want to demonstrate to the armed forces' leaders
that the government has widespread support.
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WESTERN EUROPE - US: The European allies have
reached at least tentative agreement on how they
should proceed in formulating a response to the US
request for a new declaration of principles on Atlan-
tic relations.
In the wake of the discussions at last week's
NATO ministerial meeting in Copenhagen, the EC Nine
agreed that its political committee will take up US-
European relations on 5-6 July to identify questions
that the foreign ministers will discuss on 23 July.
French Foreign Minister Jobert approved this schedule
without indicating any change in French reluctance
to engage in a US-European dialogue.
The EC countries presumably will address a Dutch
draft of a declaration of principles. There is some
feeling in community circles, however, against pre-
cipitate action on a draft text. For example, Danish
Foreign Minister Andersen, who will chair the minis-
terial EC meeting, told Secretary Rogers in Copen-
hagen that the Nine should focus first on questions
of procedure, because getting the "new European family
to function" should have priority.
Belgian Foreign Office Political Director
Davignon has been more pointed in opposing the early
appearance of a draft declaration, which he believes
would lead to another confrontation between France
and the other EC members. Davignon believes that
Paris, impressed by its isolation in the Nine, can
be brought around to the majority view, but only by
a step-by-step process permitting the French to
soften their position without seeming to surrender.
This tactic, Davignon believes, is threatened by
what he calls the US strategy to "reward" France for
its obstructionism by making bilateral approaches.
Because the foreign ministers of the Nine, have now
agreed to discuss US-European relations in July,
Davignon hopes that Dr. Kissinger will delay a trip
to Europe until after that meeting.
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Although the French foreign minister assailed
the US "Year of Europe" proposals at last week's
NATO ministerial, he reluctantly went along with
the idea that the NATO permanent representatives
should study Atlantic relations. Most of the other
EC members of NATO were also reluctant to imply in
the final communique that either NATO objectives or
strategies were in for a change. A study in NATO
was particularly supported by non-'EC members Norway,
Canada, Greece, Turkey, and Portugal. These coun-
tries are concerned that "bilateralism" between the
US and the community.-as Canadian Foreign Minister
Sharp put it--would erode the NATO consultative
process.
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C ARGENTINA: The shoot-out that disrupted Juan
Peron s homecoming yesterday is likely to accentuate
the growing strains between the former dictator and
President Campora.
When shooting broke out between rival Peronist
groups, the plane carrying Peron and Campora was
diverted from the international airport outside
Buena's Aires, where a crowd estimated at more than
two million had gathered to give Peron a hero's
welcome. Peron has been upset with Campora's inept
handling of the terrorist problem and internal Peron-
ist divisions. The toll of 20 dead and more than
300 injured at a celebration in his honor seems
likely to deepen the rift between the two.
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Peron is scheduled to address the nation to-
night and has promised to "explain his role in the
government." Opposition to a complete take-over by
the former dictator, as well as his age and his de-
sire to devote most of his time to foreign affairs,
may cause him to put aside any thoughts of accepting
the presidential sash "symbolically" offered to him
by Campora. In any event, he will play the deci-
sive role in the government, and in the next few
weeks will seek to stabilize the political situation
that now borders on anarchy.
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