CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: February 27, 1968

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The CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN is produced by the
Director of Central Intelligence to meet his responsibilities for providing
current intelligence bearing on issues of national security to the President,
the National Security Council, and other senior government officials. It
is produced in consultation with the Departments of State and Defense.
When, because of the time factor, adequate consultation with the depart-
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WARNING.
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CONTENTS
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
Egypt: Government shows uncertainty in dealing
with first hostile demonstrations it has ever faced.
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USSR: Nonproliferation treaty (Page 4)
Uruguay-Czechoslovakia: Arms deal (Page 4)
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*South Vietnam: Military activity was generally
light on 26 February.
Allied strongpoints along the Demilitarized Zone
again came under North Vietnamese artillery, rocket,
and mortar bombardment, the heaviest being directed
at Khe Sanh, where three Marines were killed and 52
wounded.
In central Vietnam, mortar attacks were reported
against Kontum city and Tuy Hoa airfield, and ground
fighting flared near the provincial capital of Phan Thiet.
The Viet Cong attacked Tan Son Nhut air base and
other points in the Saigon area with rockets, mortars
and 75-mm. recoilless rifle rounds early this morning.
Elements of three enemy divisions continue to maneuver
within striking distance of the capital and nearby airfields.
In a clash yesterday 14 miles west of Tay Ninh city,
US forces report that the enemy were supported by three
unidentified type tanks and a half track. One tank was
destroyed, killing 30 of the enemy. The remaining two
tanks were reported to have withdrawn toward the Cam-
bodian border.
Viet Cong forces in the IV Corps area launched a
series of mortar and small-scale ground attacks against
district towns and isolated outposts throughout the delta.
the Com-
munisLs nave nearly completed a road eastward from the
A Shau Valley. The road will provide a direct supply
route from the Laotian corridor to the Hue area.
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Communists are conducting a large-scale "recruitment"
drive in the countryside. Government forces have by and
large been pulled in to defend the urban areas givinp. thp
Communists a free hand,
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Egypt: The Nasir regime appears uncertain how
to handle the first hostile demonstrations it has faced.
The first demonstration occurred on 21 February.
"Workers" from the southern suburbs of Cairo staged
a march ostensibly protesting the "light" sentences
given high-level military officers charged with negli-
gence during the war last June. The former chief of
the air force was given 15 years imprisonment, but
two other top officers were acquitted. The protesters
demanded death sentences, and police reportedly had
to use gunfire to halt them.
Agitation has evidently continued and, despite a
ban, students rioted in Cairo itself on Sunday. After
a Sunday night cabinet session, the government closed
the four major universities and all the high schools, in
the country. Demonstrations have been banned once
again, and the regime has announced that the accused
officers will be retried by another court.
The government moves may forestall further out-
breaks, but the seriousness of the incidents indicates
a popular mood the Nasir regime has never previously
had to face. The demonstrations underscore the ma-
laise and frustration arising from the humiliation of the
Egyptian defeat last June. The spontaneity of the dem-
onstrations is open to question, but the identity and mo-
tives of possible organizers are unknown.
Although stiffer sentences for the accused might
appease disaffected civilians, such sentences would at
the same time increase resentment among the military.
The military is already bitter over receiving the blame
for the defeat at the hands of the Israelis, and, in some
cases, restive under "retraining" by Soviet military
advisers.
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The regime's problem with hostile sentiment will
be compounded by the absence of any visible progress
in getting the Israelis to withdraw from occupied Egyp-
tian territory.
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USSR: Soviet diplomats recently have been lobby-
ing for the US-Soviet draft nonproliferation treaty.
The draft is still before the disarmament conference
in Geneva. Representations have been made in New
Delhi and Tokyo, and the Russian delegate at Geneva
privately made an impassioned defense of the treaty
against Rumanian criticism. In Moscow, the envoys
of Austria, Italy, India, Japan, Burma, Brazil, and
Chile have been approached for support. Brezhnev
and Kosygin have emphasized in major speeches the
importance Moscow attaches to acceptance to the treaty.
Uruguay-Czechoslovakia: The Uruguayan police
have proposed buying nearly of small
arms from Czechoslovakia. Military leaders have ex-
pressed concern with proposed reductions in US mili-
tary aid at a time when the government's planned aus-
terity program threatens to stir Communist-inspired
labor agitation and increased urban unrest. President
Pacheco Areco has yet to approve the purchase, which
is to include submachine guns and ammunition, and
there is still some possibility that the deal will not go
through.
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