CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: January 10, 1968

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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The CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN is produced by the
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current intelligence bearing on issues of national security to the President,
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CONTENTS
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
Communist China - US: Peking seeks to return
ambassadorial talks to calmer tones. (Page 3)
Congo (Kinshasa): Mobutu may seek compromise
on mercenaries now in Rwanda. (Page 4)
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*Vietnam:
South Vietnam: The Lower House of the National
Assembly has decided to draft its own mobilization
law and has asked the government to restrict implemen-
tation of the present law until a new one is promulgated.
This decision by the Lower House on 6 January
goes far beyond the action of the Upper House which
merely requested restrictions and clarification of the
present government decree. Although the new bill may
be drafted within the next few days, approval may well
be delayed until the start of the next regular session
of the Lower House in April.
There are indications in communications intelli-
gence that the Communists may soon launch new attacks
in northwestern III Corps.
Reconnaissance elements of the Viet Cong 9th
Division, which in the past have been active prior to
and during major 9th Division offensives, have been
located three miles west of An Loc, capital of Binh
Long Province. The division's 273rd Regiment has re-
cently been moving westward to a position 15 miles east
of the city. Although the two other regiments of the
9th suffered heavy casualties in recent fighting in north-
western Tay Ninh Province, the division has shown re-
markable resilience in recent months and continues to
pose a serious threat.
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[Seaborne cargo delivered to North Vietnam during
December totaled about 128,400 tons. This was equal
to the monthly average during the first half of 1967 and
approximately 38,000 tons above the average for the
preceding five months. Food deliveries constituted
about one third of the total and brought food deliveries
for the year to 447,000 tons. Only 55,000 tons of food-
stuffs were imported during all of 1966.
)Hanoi exported 41,400 tons by sea during December,
mostly coal. This was significantly less than the
average tonnage exported in the first half of 1967/
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Communist China - US! [Peking is apparently
seeking to return Sino-US ambassadorial meetings to
the less strident tone which prevailed prior to the
Cultural Revolution excesses of last summer./
{Ambassador Gronouski reports that at the meeting
in Warsaw on 8 January the Chinese representative
spoke "sharply," but was generally polite. In contrast
with the encounter last June, the Chinese made only
one reference to Mao and no references to Mao's
"thought," The language of the Chinese statement was
comparatively inoffensive and it did not take a partic-
ularly belligerent or provocative line.
)The Chinese reverted to Peking's standard posi-
tion that US "occupation" of Taiwan is the principal
obstacle to improvement in Sino-US relations. At the
meeting last June Ambassador Wang had stressed the
idea that hostility between China and the US was mainly
a result of the Vietnam war, and of US opposition to
"world revolution" in general. I
At the latest meeting the Chinese charge substi-
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tutin-g for Wang who is in China, made no polemical
statements concerning Vietnam. Although he asserted
that the US was "clamoring" for hot pursuit into China,
he issued no specific warning about the Chinese rer
sponse, noting only that if the US should expand t e war
it would meet "thorough and ignominious defeat.
LAmbassador Gronouski commented that the charge'
was obviously somewhat ill at ease and adhered so
closely to his prepared text that he delivered rebuttals
to points that had not been raised by Gronouskid
iThe Chinese agreed to another meeting on 29 May,
but gave no assurance that they would be represented
by an ambassador at that time.
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Congo (Kinshasa): President Mobutu may be seek-
ing a compromise on the problem of the mercenaries
now in Rwanda.
Several recent reports suggest that Mobutu is
growing tired of the mercenary problem and would be
glad to see the mercenaries out of Africa permanently.
According to Congolese Foreign Minister Bomboko,
Mobutu plans to recommend that the OAU special sub-
committee authorize Rwanda to repatriate most of the
mercenaries. Mobutu might still press for the extra-
dition of five or six leaders including Lt. Col.
Schramme.
Rwandan President Kayibanda, however, would
probably be reluctant to go along with a proposal under
which any mercenary would be extradited to the Congo.
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