WEEKLY SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00927A009400080001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 32
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 3, 1972
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Secret
WEEKLY SUMMARY
State Dept. review completed
DIA review(s) completed.
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3 March 1972
No. 0359/72
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..LY SUMMARY, issued, every Fri
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nior t in 1; t 51e Office of Curre it Int l ige ce, reps .^t4
arid a1 aly er i sxificant developr eats of the wf?e
through noon on Thursday. it frequently inclu L
material coordinated with or prepared by the Off cc
::.f Economic :t esearch, the Office of Strategic
search, and the Directorate of Science a_nd Techr l
tyg}?, :Topics requiring more comprehensive treatn, n?
and therefore published .separately as Special Reprt
are listed iit the -contents pages.
SUMMARY
CONTTNTS (3 Mar h 1972)
THE
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PRESIDENT'S
Hanoi, and the USSR
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I iternational Money
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+dochina: Vietnar
Laos
--naissance, Chin* Style
11 I*?alia
12 I alyc Attgition to the Right
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MIDDLE EAST
AFRICA
WESTERN
HEMISPHERE
15 F-ungar"'+Romania: Different Styles
16 USSR Pollution
18 ('SSRf I%jle: A Friend in Need
14 F inlan :, o Rest for the Weary
19 Pakistan: Thd~,Problems Mount
20 Israel - Arab Siptes: Retaliation
21 Cyprus: Uneas Quiet
22 Lidan: A Peace Ian at Last
72 F hodesia: Canva Nears End
23, 1 ahomey: Back t `the Drawing Board
"4 F Olivia: Paz Dominates nvention
25 J.Amaican Election Landsl)de
26 E Salvador: Molina Electe4
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OFFICIAL SILENCE FROM HANOI
Hanoi has maintained an official silence on
the summit talks in Peking. Before the President's
visit, the North Vietnamese published generalized
press commentaries warning the Chinese and the
Soviets by name that the US diplomatic strategy
is aimed at dividing socialist countries and resur-
recting "obsolete" spheres of influence in the
world. They republished some of the commen-
taries during the visit, but otherwise Hanoi's out-
put was notable riainly for its assiduous effort to
avoid any mention at all of the Chinese. Hanoi
failed, for instani.e, to publish until 1 March a
Chinese statement of support for the Vietnamese
Communists that I- ad been issued on 19 February..
The Vietnamese do continue to criticize the
US, and Presiden- Nixon personally, in strident
terms. To buttress the point, the Hanoi press has
announced publication of a book on "Nixon's
criminal record," and almost simultaneously has
surfaced an editor al portrait of the President that
uses unusually abusive language even for the
North Vietnamese press.
The avoidance of any reference to Peking
was undoubtedly meant to convey Hanoi's pique.
The regime is almost certainly deeply worried
that China's role in the summit may have helped
to defuse the war