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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006000050060-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 60
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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1. CZEC1 OSLOVAKIA: Bens may o ose Communists--US
Ambassador Smith in Moscow has been told by the Czecho-
slovak Ambassador (who has just returned from Czecho-
slovakia where he talked with President Benes) that Benes
intends to veto the new Communist constitution, even though
it may result in Benes' forced resignation. According to the
Czechoslovak Ambassador, Benes declared, "My position
is not as weak as it might appear on the surface. I can still
veto the. new constitution, and while I will be forced to re-
sign afterwards the effect will be unmistakably to show the
world again the ruthlessness of the dictatorship which has
now been imposed on Czechoslovakia by the Communist
minority."
(CIA Comment:. Despite Benes' apparent intention
to veto the constitution, he may be unable, in view of his
status as a virtual prisoner of the Communists, to make
such an action known to the Czechoslovak public and the
world.)
THE AMERICAS
2. NICARAGUA: Possibility of Somoza overthrow--
Naval Attache in Guatemala City has be(-.n- informed
that uprisings against General Somoza are
prevent his overthrow,)
will be reduced by the presence of armed Nicaraguan revo-
lutionaries and hostile Guatemalans along the southern
frontier of Nicaragua and by his considerable loss of pres-
tige for having supported the losing side in the Costa Rican
civil war. Although Somoza will probably receive aid from
the Dominican Republic, such help may not be sufficient to
scheduled shortly in Nicaragua. The NA estimates that the
chances are good that the uprisings will be successful.
(CIA Comment: Despt Somoza's awareness that
such uprisings are planned, his ability to suppress them
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