CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: September 14, 1970
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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No. 0220/70
14 September 1970
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Arab States - Israel: Efforts to obtain the release
of the hostages continue. (Page 1)
Cambodia:
Chile: President Frei's Christian Democrats are at-
tempting to close ranks in order to reassert their
political influence. (Page 5)
Korea: Pyongyang may gain diplomatically if Allende
SFJarTies president of Chile. (Page 7)
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CArab States - Israel: Efforts to obtain the
release of the 50 or so hostages still in fedayeen
hands are continuing.
US Embassy officials in Amman believe that the
remaining hostages have been split into at least
two groups. There are signs that some of the hos-
tages are being held in a large refugee camp on the
outskirts of the capital. 'released
yesterday said that he and about 20 others had been
confined in a house in Amman. There is no precise
information on the number or location of the groups,
however.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Pales-
tine (PFLP), which is holding the hostages, seems
to be concentrating on trying to conclude separate
deals with the British, Germans, and Swiss. The
Europeans are so far holding to a multinational ap-
proach, but the British and the Germans are appar-
ently wavering. Meanwhile, the role of the Red
Cross is not entirely clear. Red Cross Vice Presi-
dent Freymond told British, German, and US repre-
sentatives on Saturday that the Red Cross was with-
drawing from its negotiating role, because it would
not be party to blackmail or serve as intermediary
for deals with separate countries. In a statement
to the press this morning, however, Red Cross Presi-
dent Naville denied that talks had been broken off.
Switzerland, meanwhile, possibly in an attempt to
open an alternate negotiating channel, has asked
the Arab League to use its good offices with the
PFLP to obtain the release of the hostages.
Israel remains strongly opposed to the prin-
ciple of exchanging fedayeen it holds for the hos-
tages in Amman. Nevertheless, the Israelis offi-
cially announced yesterday that they had rounded
up 450 Arabs--including 80 women--from the occu-
pied territories; all were suspected of belonging
to or aiding the PFLP, and two were said to be
uncles of PFLP chief George Habbash. There are
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Cpress reports that the Arabs will be held as counter-
hostages for the detained airline passengers. In
London the unofficial Jewish Defense League announced
Saturday that it had seized three Arabs employed at
the Egyptian Embassy. Claiming that the three were
fedayeen, the league said that they would be held
until the hostages in Jordan are released.
The blowing up of the hijacked planes has pre-
cipitated a quarrel between the PFLP and the Pales-
tine Liberatibn Organization (PLO). The PLO an-
nounced Saturday that it had suspended the PFLP's
membership in the PLO central committee for defying
the committee's resolutions on handling the planes
and the passengers. Last night, the PFLP threatened
that if its membership were not restored, it would
not observe the agreements to which it was presently
committed--apparently a reference to the truce
reached last Thursday between the Jordanian authori-
ties and the PLO.
Meanwhile, the relative quiet in Jordan was
broken yesterday by fighting in the Irbid area in
north Jordan, in which Jordanian Army troops clashed
with members of the Palestine Liberation Army, the
regular force of the PLO. Fedayeen sources charged
that army units opened up with artillery on two com-
mando jeeps, and that the bodies of some of the
fedayeen were mutilated by army troops. Jordanian
officials have expressed regret for the incident,
which has so far not led to a general breakdown of
the cease-fire.
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Cambodia:
Fighting Slows
In addition to routine harassments of Siem
Reap and Kompong Thom cities and other locations
in the countryside, the Communists killed 27 South
Vietnamese troops in two sharp attacks over the
weekend.
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Meanwhile, the Route 6 convoy is still stalled
15 miles north of Skoun. Cambodian troops are at-
tempting to clear entrenched Communist elements from
the area. Villagers report that Communist, reinforce-
ments are moving into the area from the north, sug-
gesting that the convoy, which has been on the road
for a week and is still 35 miles from Kompong Thom,
is in for more trouble.
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Chile: President Frei's Christian Democrats
are attempting to close ranks in order to reassert
their political influence, but prospects for block-
ing Allende's succession to the presidency are not
good.
As the Christian Democrats become increasingly
aware of the threat that would be posed by an Allende
government, there is a growing move to resist the
chronic indulgence in internal differences that has
marked the party's six years in power. Its members
seem tardily to realize that they must stick to-
gether if they are to salvage any influence as the
largest political party with the strongest represen-
tation in Congress. Most of them were initially
disconcerted by Allende's victory in last week's
popular election. Their defeated candidate, Radomiro
Tomic, and some of his leftist supporters hastily
tried to ingratiate themselves with Allende. The
exodus of large numbers of influential Chileans,
the rapidly spreading economic dislocations, and
the Allende forces' heavy-handed grab for power,
however, have spurred the party to the realization
of its own poor prospects and the need to act while
it can.
The direction and efficacy of this emerging
cohesion are not yet clear. Many party leaders
dislike the plan to elect runner-up presidential
candidate Jorge Alessandri in Congress next month
in return for his promise to resign and bring about
new elections. The guarantees that they have pub-
licly demanded of Allende would not be difficult
for Allende to circumvent by maneuver or timing.
President Frei's leadership and popularity are es-
sential to the success of the Christian Democrats,
but Frei's commitment to his constitutional respon-
sibilities outweighs his own fear of what Allende
will do to Chile and limits his exercise of influ-
ence on party strategy.
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Meanwhile, Allende's public claims of assassi-
nation plans against him and his supporters' threat
of a strike are merely conspicuous examples of the
strong pressures being applied at many points to
ensure his accession to the presidency.
The chance of action against Allende by mili-
tary leaders, never strong, seems to be dwindling
as they, too, seek assurances from Allende that he
may or may not choose to honor.
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Korea: Pyongyang may gain substantial diplo-
matic benefits if Salvador Allende becomes presi-
dent of Chile.
Allende has made it clear that he intends to
recognize the Communist governments of the divided
countries, including Korea. Such action would
probably lead the South Koreans to close their
embassy in Santiago. But more disturbing for the
South Koreans is the possibility that Allende will
pull Chile out of the UN Commission for the Unifica-
tion and Rehabilitation of Korea (UNCURK). Al-
though UNCURK's only important function in recent
years has been the preparation of an annual report
to the General Assembly, it is valued by the South
Koreans as a symbol of UN support for their country
and the peaceful unification of the peninsula on
non-Communist terms.
UNCURK, along with the UN Command in Korea,
has been under increasing attack by Pyongyang's
friends in the UN. Chile's withdrawal would en-
courage like action by the Pakistanis, whose mem-
bership in UNCURK is an embarrassment to their
relations with Peking and Pyongyang. The with-
drawal of one or both of these countries could
throw the very existence of UNCURK into question
with serious ramifications for the whole range of
Korean-related problems in the UN.
Although the usual Communist resolution to
dissolve UNCURK probably will again be defeated
by a wide margin, this year's debate, if compli-
cated by Chile's resignation from UNCURK, is likely
to add to South Korean feelings of insecurity,
which have been heightened by the scheduled cut-
back of US forces in Korea.
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