REVIEW OF INSURGENCY PROBLEMS

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• Publication Date: September 15, 1965
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This publication provides a periodic review of internal
security in underdeveloped countries where there is
a threat from Communist-supported insurgency.
Congo 0 4 a o 0 0
British Guiana.
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?CI No, 0581/65
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
?ffice of Current Intelligence
l5 September 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMC3RANDUM
Review of Insurgency Problems
1. Conga
The over-all military situation in the Congo
continues to improve, but the activities of rebels
in and around the Fizi :region on the northwestern
shores of Lake Tanganyika are still of some concern.
In the last few days there has been a spate
'of rumors suggesting that a rebel offensive may be
in the offing Werth of Fizi, toward Bukavu, the
largest city in the eastern Congo. Rebel activity
above Fizi has in fact increased, but .its dimen-
sions are difficult to measure. The Arzerican consul
in Bukavu believes that rebel pressure is likely
to grow in the coming weeks and thinker that rein-
forcements for the region are needed.
severe sera group o
Cubans eve err ve ere in the last three weeks, ac-
cording to a report from the US ambassador on 10
September. The Cubans may be planning to 3oin the
Fizi partisans. At least four Cubans were known
to be with the rebels last June.. Any substantial
increase in the number of Cuban advisers in Fizi
would vastly complicate the problems facing Colonel
Hoare, the mercenary commander, whose Albertville-
based offensive has now been postponed until late
~etober.
In the .last few weeks Hoare has gradually built
up his Albertville contingent. As of 28 August he
had 250 South African and Rhodesian mercenaries in
the city. H?-hopes to increase his force to 350
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before commencing operations toward Fizi. Although
Hoare acknou-ledges that he is getting better logistic
support than ever 'aefore, he is wor~:?1_ec3 about the
relatively poo~^ ~aIIt~. ity of his current recruits .
Apparently bac:~ ~~z?~~ icity about pay and working con-
ditions in thz~ ^'cr~go has scared off the more able
soldiers of fortune.
Supporting Hoare are four Albertville-
based T-2$ aircraft and a small fleet, now c?n-
sisting of an old 75-foot steamer and fa
high-speed motor boats.
~. British Guiana
The pro-Communist Peoplegs Progressive Party
.(PPP) probably is giving some paramilitary training
to its activists, but thus far has engaged only
isolated terrorist incidents. The most recent seri-
ous incident occurred on 1 September when a bomb
was thrown at a truck (reportedly supplied by US
AID) .carrying 23 workers of the Ministry of Works
and Hydraulics. Nine victims were hospitalized but
no ose was killed. Three men found in the area of
the explosion have been detained by the police.
The PPP is currently experiencing a wave of
internal dissension which is probably keeping it
from developing a concerted and effective anti-
government progxam. The sporadio incidents of
sugar cane arson., property damage, and explosions
are of considerable nuisance value, but so far they
have not been serious or frequent enough to con-
vince the British that they should postpone the
constitutional convention sehedul?d for 2'November.
This convention is expected to set the date for the
colony's independence. The PPP wants to block
independence under the present government, feeling
that as head of an independent "Guyana," Premier
Burnham will be in a better osition to re en
PPP from re ainin owes.
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4. Colom~a9.a
The split between the orthodox Communist
Party (PCC, sand t~ze Conununist Party/~tiTarxist-
Leninist (PCC1tY~L~ ~~ay lead to efforts by each to
outdo t~3e other in terrorist and guerrilla, activ-
it ies ,
The PCC-PJiL, lav~.ng
brapen with the PCC, as een seeping funds for
guex~ri].la activity and urban terrorism, which it
has already begun on a small scale.
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The government, already absorbed in dealing
with new tensions arising from its xecently announced
program of increased taxation and exchange reform,
may have difficulty coun~tei ing an intensified
Communist effort to exploit public discontent, It
is equally possible, of course, that renewed vio-
lence by Communists would result in such widespread
revulsion that the government?s task would be easier.
5, Peru
The resignation of the cabinet on 13 Sep-
tember portends no threat to Presicaent Belaunde
despite-the relative decline in stability. It does,
however, play into the hands of the Movement of the
Revolutionary Left (MIR}, whose guerrillas will
undoubtedly benefit by political dissension in
Lima. Counterinsurgency operations are continuing
against the MIR but with little result thus far.
In Cusco Department, where the southern grouping
of MIR camps is located, government forces re-
portedly have sealed of't' the general camp site
area and are preparing far a major offensive against
the guerrillas, An intense roundup of suspected
subversives has been under wa in the department
for several w?eks.
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