WEEKLY SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00927A005600090002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 34
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 17, 1967
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
WEEKLY SUMMARY
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State Dept. review completed
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17 February 1967
No. 0277/67
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(Information as of noon EST, 16 February 1967}
VIETNAM
During the Tet truce, the Communists engaged in a
major resupply effort and initiated more than 300
military incidents. Kosygin's public remarks in
London provided no substantive change in Soviet sup-
port for Hanoi. Since the end of the truce, Hanoi
propaganda on negotiations has been emphasizing the
traditional hard-line "four point" formulation.
COMMUNIST INSURGENCY IN THAILAND
Subversion has had some success in the north and north-
east, but a police sweep in the west-central provinces
has set back the fledgling Communist efforts in that
area.
MAOIST LEADERS MOVE TO EASE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Maoist leaders have made concerted efforts in recent
days to moderate the Cultural Revolution and to curb
the Red Guards. Unlike earlier periods of temporary
moderations, Mao and Lin Piao are both represented as
endorsing the latest orders to implement the party
line.
COMMUNIST CHINA MODERATES ANTI-SOVIET CAMPAIGN
Although the reasons for the sudden shift in Peking's
tactics remain unclear, the move appears to parallel
the trend to a more moderate internal policy that
took place about 8 February.
WAY PAVED FOR SUKARNO'S OUSTER IN INDONESIA
Anti-Sukarno forces have taken further steps in prep-
aration for formal dismissal action by Congress next
month if the President does not resign.
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Europe
^aOVIET INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AIR ROUTES EXPANDING
P.eroflot began regular service to Canada last November
and will initiate flights to both the US and Japan
tt-~is spring. Moreover, Moscow is laying the ground-
work for the addition of several African countries and
i~:. likely to increase its efforts in Latin America.
_~EW SOVIET SPACECRAFT PROBABLY INTENDED FOR DUAL MIS5IONS 14
There are indications that the spacecraft tested as
Ccamos 133 and 140 may be intended far both manned
~.~Lnar and earth-orbit missions.
',n7ARSAW PACT FAILS TO REACH CONSENSUS ON GERMANY
Ar:: the recent foreign ministers' meeting in Warsaw, the
Sc~~viets were evidently unable to resolve the policy
contradictions created by the receptivity of Rumania
and others to West Germany's recent initiatives.
GENEVA DISARMAMENT TALKS RESUME ON 21 FEBRUARY
The Eighteen Nation Disarman-ent Committee will take up
the draft nuclear nonproliferation treaty, about which
I:t~aly, West. Germany, and some nonaligned countries
continue to have reservations.
PARLIAMENTARY PROBLEMS PLAGI7E ITALIAN GOVERNMENT
R:.current difficulties :in enacting legislation, shaky
party discipline, and dissent on a number of thorny
problems have undermined cooperation between the two
major coalition partners, the Christian Democrats and
tYie Socialists.
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Middle East - Africa
BRITISH FACE MORE VIOLENCE IN ADEN
Violence instigated by competing nationalist groups
is pushing the colony toward anarchy, and prospects
for a settlement that would allow an orderly transi-
tion from British rule are steadily growing worse.
TANZANIA SWALLOWS A DOSE OF SOCIALISM
President Nyerere last week nationalized commercial
banks and some other enterprises. Although he has
been moving toward socialism for some time, his abrupt
action has brought trade and finance to a near stand-
still and jeopardizes treaty negotiations with Kenya
and Uganda.
POLITICAL SITUATION HEATS UP IN SIERRA LEONE
Elections are expected within a few weeks, and tension
ha.s risen over an alleged military plot against Prime
Minister Margai who also faces a possible merging of
his political opposition.
Western Hemisphere
LABOR-GOVERNMENT TENSION INCREASES IN ARGENTINA
The possibility of an outbreak of violence in Buenos
Aires during the current Inter-American conferences
has increased with the announcement by the General
Confederation of Labor of a "struggle plan" to combat
the Ongania regime.
FURTHER STUDENT UNREST LIKELY IN r?EXICO
With a new school year beginning this month, students
are likely to renew agitation against university
management and the continued imprisonment of students
arrested during the army occupation of the autonomous
University of Morelia last October.
DOMINICAN PRESIDENT MOVES TO WEAKEN OPPOSITION
His effort to isolate and weaken the left-of-center-
Dominican Revolutionary Party is having some success
but may move it closer to the Communists.
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FAR EAST
Peking has abruptly moderated its tactics
toward the Soviet Union, and apparently is also
similarly shifting its approach to the Cultural
Revolution. On 12 February, after nearly three
weeks of escalating invective, the Chinese mobs
that had been holding the Soviet Embassy in Peking
in a virtual state of siege withdrew. Other steps
also helped reduce the immediate tensions between
Moscow and Peking, but the reasons for the shift
are not yet clear. Although Moscow claims credit,
the change seems related to Chinese domestic de-
velopments.
The Peking authorities, led by Premier Chou
En-lai, apparently have begun a concerted effort
to curb Red Guard excesses. Militants have been
advised to ease their approach to erring officials,
and broadcasts have criticized young revolution-
aries, especially ultraleftists. Unlike similar
efforts last fall, these directives bear the
endorsement of Mao and other top leaders. The
regime still faces serious trouble on many fronts,
however, with stiff resistance to Mao supporters
evidently continuing in several provinces and fur-
ther high military officers being purged.
The new year's cease-fire in Vietnam passed
without significant military action, but the North
Vietnamese mounted a well-organized, major logis-
tics effort just north of the Demilitarized Zone,
and sent an unusually large number of trucks
through the Mu Gia Pass toward the routes through
southern Laos.
The anti-Sukarno bandwagon rolls on in Indo-
nesia. Parliament's unanimous request for Congress
to oust the President and bring him to trial seems
to leave Sukarno no escape from formal dismissal
unless he resigns--a course that the overnment is
still trying to arrange. ~
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