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[63]THE PRESIDENT’S
[64]INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST |
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[86]1, Venezuela a. The country's six presiden-
[87]tial candidates have swung into the
[88]home stretch of their campaigns.
[90]So have the terrorists, who are still
[91]trying hard to sabotage next Sunday's
[92]vote.
[94]b. There is little doubt that
[95]_the terrorist effort has all-out
[96]Cuban support. Castro looks on
[97]Venezuela as his prime target in
[98]Latin America and would ‘do everything
[99]in his power to prevent President
[100]Betancourt from finishing his term,
[102]c. So far, the terrorists have
[103]tried to intimidate the candidates .
[104]by harassing political rallies, bomb-
[105]ing their party headquarters in ~
[106]various cities, and threatening them
[107]with assassination. They have tried
[108]to scare voters from the polls by
[109]creating a general atmosphere of law-
[110]lessness, Kidnappings, like the one
[111]yesterday morning of Colonel Chenault,
[112]are part of the pattern,
[114]d. The government counterattack
[115]is under the personal direction of
[116]Betancourt, who is as determined to
[117]finish out his term and turn over
[119]' power to a freely-elected successor
[120]as Castro is to prevent this.
[122](Cont'd)
[124]. For The President Only - Top Secret
[126]2.
[128]‘South Vietnam
[130]e. Yesterday it was announced
[131]that the carrying of firearms by
[132]anyone outside the security forces
[133]was forbidden until the elections
[135]are over.
[137]£. Some 3,000 reservists have
[138]been called up to protect the polls.
[139]Leaves are being cancelled and all
[140]security forces are maintaining a
[141]high state of alert.
[143]a. We now have a fuller ac-
[144]count from official US sources of
[145]the Viet Cong attack on two mountain
[146]villages mentioned in Tuesday's
[147]Checklist.
[149]b. This account makes it clear
[150]that the earlier press versions,
[152]‘which spoke of 1,000 missing vil-
[154]lagers, were highly colored,
[156]ec. Our present information
[158]is that the attack, in company
[160]strength, was successfully repulsed,
[161]The Viet Cong suffered some 30 cas-=
[162]ualties; government losses were six
[163]killed, three wounded and 39 missing,
[165](Cont'd)
[167]For The President Only - Top Secret
[169]d. As is usual in these cases,
[170]the villagers began to trickle back
[171]- once the Viet Cong left.
[173]e. This episode aside, we see
[174]‘a number of indications that the
[175]Communists will try to sustain the
[176]higher level of military activity
[177]“they have kept up since the coup.
[179]f£. The Communist radio has
[181]called for more attacks in an effort
[182]to destroy strategic hamlets and
[183]"develop" Viet Cong forces. In sup-
[185]. port of this, Viet Cong communica-
[186]tions traffic has been unusually
[187]heavy and has involved a large vol-
[188]ume of high priority traffic and
[189]special alert patterns.
[191]“(Includes INTERCEPTS)
[193]3. Israel , a. We have some reason to be-
[194]lieve that the Israelis are develop-
[195]ing a surface-to-surface missile of
[196]their own.
[198]; b. A reliable clandestine
[199]source says that an Israeli repre-
[200]sentative is trying to buy US stable
[201]platforms for the inertial guidance
[202]system of a missile with a range of
[203]300-350 miles. He wanted delivery
[204]in six to twelve months, There have
[205]been several earlier reports that
[207](Cont'd)
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[211]4, USSR-India |
[213]Israel is buying missile components
[214]in the US and England.
[216]c. We think this missile pro-
[217]gram is independent of another
[218]Israeli venture: Tel Aviv's con-
[219]tract with a French firm, Marcel
[220]Dassault, for the development of a
[221]system which will be able to deliver
[222]a 1,600-pound warhead to a maximum
[223]range of 300 miles,
[225]a. Moscow has promised the
[226]Indians to ship the equipment for
[227]one surface-to-air (SAM) training
[228]site early next month,
[230]b. The Soviets had agreed to
[231]provide eight SAM sites. The rest
[232]will probably not be sent until the
[233]Indians have learned to handle the
[234]equipment about a year from now.
[236]cc, As we noted last Sunday,
[237]there are some Indians who have
[239]‘ doubts about the Soviet willingness
[241]to live up to the letter of their
[242]military aid agreements with New
[243]Delhi,
[245](Cont'd)
[247]For The President Only - Top Secret
[249]d. They call into question
[250]especially the contract for the
[251]Soviets to set up in India a facility
[252]to assemble MIG fighters~--an enter-
[253]prise which has appeared somewhat
[254]impractical from the beginning.
[256]e. We do note, however, that
[257]Soviet aircraft specialists working
[258]on the project were still in New
[259]Delhi in early November.
[260](INTERCEPTS)
[262]5. Burma a. Ne Win has followed up his
[263]action in breaking off talks with
[264]the Burmese Communists by arresting
[265]over 700 of their number.
[267].b. Ne Win had been trying to
[268]lure the faction-ridden Communists
[269]into a "national front." However,
[270]he found the demands of the Commu-
[271]nist negotiators, some of whom had
[272]only just returned from long exile
[273]in Peiping, to be impossible.
[275]c. This will probably lead to
[276]renewed fighting between the army
[277]and Communist guerrillas in the hills.
[278]ad. More trouble can also be
[279]expected from the rebellious ethnic
[280]minorities Like the Karens and the
[282](Cont'd)
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[286]STATUTE MILES.
[289]Kachins, whose demands for greater
[290]autonomy have been rejected in Ran-
[291]goon,
[293]e. US officials on the spot
[294]doubt that the army, hobbled by poor
[295]leadership and its many political
[296]responsibilities, will be any more
[297]effective in dealing with the prob-
[298]lem this time than in past anti-
[299]insurgency campaigns.
[301]6. Cambodia. a. Sihanouk has signed an ac-
[302]a ; cord setting up regular air service
[303]between Cambodia and Communist China.
[304]A similar agreement with Hanoi is
[305]in the works,
[307]b. These lines are significant
[308]largely as gestures by Peiping and
[309]Hanoi to bolster Sihanouk's sense
[310]of importance. Neither would be a
[311]paying proposition commercially and
[312]both could flounder before the first.
[313]paying passenger enplanes unless
[314]rights to overfly Laos can be obtained.
[315](Includes INTERCEPTS)
[317]7. Greece a. It looks more and more as
[318]if Papandreou, who squeaked through
[319]to a narrow upset victory over ex-
[320]premier Karamanlis in the 3 November
[321]elections, will not be able to form
[322]a& government.
[324]; (Cont 'd)
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[328]b. His party does not have a
[329]parliamentary majority, so he needs
[330]support from either Karamanlis'
[331]party on the right or from the Com-
[332]munists. The military has apparently
[333]been pressing Karamanlis to withhold
[334]that support. He does not need much
[335]urging.
[337]c. The military has also let
[338]it be known that it would consider |
[339]Papandreou's acceptance of Communist
[340]Support as sufficient reason for a
[341]coup d'etat.
[343]G. In/addition to this military
[344]string-pulling, the royal family is
[345]also meddling--not for the first
[347]_ time. Should Papandreou fail to,
[349]' form a government, the palace intends
[350]to pass the mandate to Karamanlis,
[351]believing that he too would fail,
[353]e. This would then open the
[354]way, the palace calculates, for a
[355]compromise premier more amenable to
[356]palace influence.
[358]8. Brazil a. President Goulart and his
[359]opponents are Keeping political ten-
[360]sions in Brazil high.
[362](Cont'd)
[364]For The President Only - Top Secret
[366]b. Comments by Goulart, that
[367]. "social disaster" is sure if his
[368]program is not passed soon, have drawn
[369]sharp rejoinders from moderate and
[370]conservative figures and have fed
[371]rightist coup plotting.
[373]c. Strains are also growing in
[374]the military following the arrest
[375]of a young officer who refused last
[376]month to execute an order to arrest
[377]Governor Lacerda, a leading conserva-
[378]tive spokesman and likely presidential
[379]candidate,
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[383]NOTES
[385]USSR Simultaneous activity this morning on the
[387]‘fyuratam missile test range, satellite tracking nets
[389]and Soviet space support ships in the Atlantic prob-
[390]ably represented an attempt to launch .an unmanned
[391]earth satellite. The launch apparently failed on
[392]the pad or was cancelled at the last moment. It
[394]may be tried again soon. (INTERCEPTS)
[396]Rumania-US Rumanian officials are about to award
[398]a Us firm, Ferguson and Company of Cleveland, Ohio,
[399]a $32 million contract to help build the huge Galati
[400]steel plant. The Rumanians are pressing ahead with
[401]this project in the face of Soviet efforts to dis-
[402]courage it in various ways, most importantly by re-
[403]fusing to underwrite the scheme to any substantial
[404]degree, .
[406]Turkey The New Turkey Party has followed the
[407]Peasant Party in withdrawing from the present three-
[408]party coalition government, This means that the
[409]coalition has to all intents and purposes collapsed,
[410]even though no formal action will be taken until
[411]Prime Minister Inonu returns from Washington this
[412]weekend,
[414]Thailand The Thai doctors attending Sarit now ad-
[416]mit for the first time that the Prime Minister is in
[418]critical condition. Our doctor agrees with this
[419]prognosis, US officials in Bangkok believe that the
[420]most likely successor would be Thanom Kittikachorn,
[421]now deputy prime minister and minister of defense.
[422]Thanom is not likely to last long, however, Since he
[423]is neither a strong personality nor a figure of great
[424]weight in the military hierarchy.
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[428](Cont'd)
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[433]Indonesia-Philippines A Philippine foreign office
[434]man states that everything was set, as we noted yes-
[435]terday, for Sukarno to visit Manila today. This
[436]official says, however, that the visit was postponed
[437]as a result of Macapagal's decision to attend Presi-
[438]dent Kennedy's funeral,
[440]Indonesia Djakarta is giving every indication that
[441]it will hold up final action on the long-pending oil
[442]contracts with US companies in an attempt to smoke
[443]us out on the question of US aid policy toward Indo-
[444]nesia,
[446]Rwanda-Burundi Tribal refugees from Rwanda, now in
[447]Burundi, Seem bent on making trouble between the two
[448]countries, Some 3,000 of their number were reported
[449]yesterday to be moving toward the frontier. They
[450]have little military capability, but blood could
[451]flow and require UN intervention.
[453]USSR-Congo. As a further token of the withdrawal
[455]of Soviet diplomats we have noted that the Soviet
[457]diplomatic communications link between Moscow and
[459]Leopoldville was shut down last Saturday. (INTER-
[460]CEPTS)
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