REVIEW OF INSURGENCY PROBLEMS

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• Publication Date: July 7, 1965
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INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
REVIEW OF INSURGENCY PROBLEMS
This publication provides a periodic review of internal
security in underdeveloped countries where there is
a threat from Communist-supported insurgency.
DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE.
Office of Current Intelligence
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downgrading and
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amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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REVIEW OF INSURGENCY PROBLEMS
This publication provides a periodic review of internal
security in underdeveloped countries where there is
a threat from Communist-supported insurgency.
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Congo (Leopoldville). . . . . . . . . 1
Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
British Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
7 July 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Review of Insurgency Problems
1. Congo (Leopoldville)
Following renewed rebel activity last
week in the eastern Congo, there have been few
significant changes in positions, and the gov-
ernment generally still holds the initiative.
Rebel bands based in the Fizi area con-
tinue to threaten Congo Army positions north of
Albertville and at Uvira at the head of Lake
Tanganyika. Evidence of active foreign involve-
ment in the fighting is mounting. Papers taken
from two bodies of four "foreigners" killed near
Bendera--60 miles north of Albertville--indicate
ubans
ave been reported
at Congolese rebel training camps in Tanzania,
and some have been sighted crossing Lake
Tanganyika to the Congo side. Bendera now is
reportedly surrounded, but is still held by the
government.
To the north of Fizi, the army garrison
at Uvira continues to be subjected to heavy reel
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~=mapleu Farther west, army units on 3 July
o e, gateway from Dukavu to the I1[indu
area. Successful air strikes by T-28s based in
Albertville have also prevented rebel advances.
A resurgence of activity between Beni---
225 miles north of Uvira--and the Ugandan border
has now been curtailed. Ugandan authorities had
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recently begun to expel Congolese refugees and
rebels, who, as they re-entered the Congo, provoked
local inhabitants and army units in the area. Sizable
groups of poorly armed rebels remain in the area, but
the situation appears to be under control. The Goma
area has also been the scene of disturbances. Most
of this trouble was apparently aimed at provincial
administrators by Rwanda refugees who live in the
area, and is not connected with the rebellion.
On 5 July mercenary-led government units
captured Aketi, an important road and rail junction
60 miles west of Buta. (Map)
The past week has been relatively quiet,
with ground action limited to skirmishes in
the northwest portion of the country and near Dong
Hene in the panhandle.
There have been some rumblings, however,
among dissatisfied rightist military and political
leaders. Several of the commanders outside of
Vientiane are unhappy over what they feel to be a
dangerous concentration of power in the hands of
General Iouprasith and the Sananikone family, with
which he has been closely allied. Although this dis-
content to date remains generalized and appears to
pose no immediate threat to the Vientiane regime,
future developments--e.g., efforts by the Sananikones
to win a disproportionate number of seats in the
forthcoming elections, or attempts by Kouprasith to
increase his influence within the military structure--
could serve to unite the opposition and signal another
period of internal strife within the rightist camp.
3. British Guiana
Cheddi Jagan, leader of the pro-Communist
People's Progressive Party (PPP), has disclaimed
all knowledge of the 24 June bombing of the US
Consulate. He says that he has nothing to gain
from it and that it ?1 win support for Premier
Forbes Burnham.
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The government is taking steps to improve
the effectiveness of its security forces. A re-
cruitment drive will be launched to bring the vol-
unteer force--an auxiliary quasi-military group--
up to its authorized strength of 600. Shotguns
will not be legally available to the populace as
they were last year, and revolvers are being issued
to the Georgetown Police,
The guerrilla ambush and decimation of a
police unit in central Peru last week and two
terrorist bombings in Lima have heightened gov-
ernment alarm over the insurgent threat. On
4 July the government ordered a 30-day suspension
of constitutional guarantees and a police roundup
of leftist extremists.
Command of counterinsurgency operations
against the guerrillas has been assumed by the
army. A command post is being established in
Huancayo, capital of Junin Department, where the
guerrillas are based. No army units are in action
as yet but 100 rangers have been sent to the area
for eventual commitment against the guerrillas.
Guerrilla activities, directed by the
pro-Cuban Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR),
have thus far been limited to two departments in
central Peru. MIR guerrilla units exist however
in the northern and southern zones.
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Now,
The MIR is receiving widespread publicity
in the Peruvian press and through its own clan-
destinely distributed communiques. Combined with
guerrilla successes and police ineffectiveness,
this propaganda is beginning to create support
for the MIR from other extremist groups.!
In the past, extreme fragmentation of
the Peruvian far left has severely handicapped
its capabilities. A general police crackdown on
leftists along with the MIR's newly demonstrated
leadership now could draw it closer together.
5. Venezuela
Both guerrilla activity and government
antiguerrilla operations continue in eastern and
western Venezuela, according to press reports.
The government has announced the arrest of peasant
collaborators in eastern Venezuela, where A guer-
rilla group ambushed a government patrol on 17 June,
killing one policeman and wounding two soldiers.;
In the west, according to a 29 June report, at least
five men . were killed and several wounded in
a clash between an army patrol and guerrillas
near the border between Trujillo and Portuguesa
states, where a guerrilla camp was discovered by
government forces. On the same date it was re-
ported that the army had occupied two guerrilla
camps in Falcon State and captured two guerrillas.
On 29 June, terrorists blew up a ile
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