DEVELOPMENTS IN COUNTRIES ON THE COUNTERINSURGENCY LIST

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• Publication Date: January 19, 1965
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OCI No. 0547/65
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
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DEVELOPMENTS IN COUNTRIES ON THE COUNTERINSURGENCY LIST
DIRECTORATE OF
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
O fice of Curran "nt Intelligence
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Developments in Countries of the
ounterinsvi gency List
1. Congo (Lecpo].dville)
Rebel activity resumed in many areas of the Congo
last week after a temporary lull. Insurgent pres3ures
on Stanleyville increased while the mercenary-led forces
in the-northeast continued their build-up for a drive
to the border areas scheduled to start this reek.
Government; forces ccntiue to encounter nune.?ous
ambushes and roadbloci.s on the roads north and east of
Stanleyville, and the city's security situation has been
further complicated by the infiltration at night of
sizable numbers of rebels posing as government suppor-
ters. Large bands continue to operate in the surrounding
countryside.
Rebel activity has intensified in the extreme north-
east. There are reports that at least one rebel group
now has uniforms. Other insurgent bands in this region
who are using their modern weapons more effectively than
previously have forced the government units with their
thinning mercenary ranks to # oa~ndon locations near the
Ugandan border.
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Northwest of Stanleyville, the mercenary-led force
operating out of Rumba--260 miles downriver from Stanley-
ville--recently entered and abandoned the town of Aketi,
100 miles farther east on the Bumba-Paulis road. Local
tribes have been assisting the government forces.
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Developments in Countries of the
Counterinsurgency List
1. Congo (Leopoldville)
Rebel activity resumed in many areas of the Congo
last week after a temporary lull. Insurgent pres3ur es
on Stanleyville increased while the mercenary-led forces
in the northeast continued their build-up for a drive
to the border areas scheduled to start this week.
Governmentforces ccnatirnue to encounter nunerous
ambushes and roadbloci s on the roads north and e~: st of
Stanleyville, and the city's security situation has been
further complicated by the infiltration at night of
sizable numbers of rebels posing as government suppor-
ters. Large bands continue to operate in the surrounding
countryside.
Rebel activity has intensified in the extreme north-
east. There are reports that at least one rebel group
now has uniforms. Other insurgent bands in this region
who are using their modern weapons more effectively than
previously have forced tho government units with their
thinning mercenary ranks to abandon locations near the
Ugandan border.
Northwest of Stanleyville, the mercenary-led force
operating out of Eumba--260 miles downriver from Stanley-
ville--recently entered and abandoned the town of Aketi,
100 miles farther east on the Sumba-Paulis road. Local
tribes have been assisting the government forces.
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Rebel groups in the region west of Stanleyville
and along the left bank of the Congo River have blocked
attempts to mount a major offensive against them from
Boende in the west. The government forces in Ikela, on
the Boende-Stanleyville road, now are reportedly moving
on other large rebel-held towns on this route.
The government continues to clean up the area
around Kindu in central Congo. Sizable rebel groups
operating in the countryside between Stanleyville and
Bukavu and from J3ukavu toward locations south of Kindu
have stopped government attempts to open these routes.
The situation south of Bukavi has deteriorated.
Government forces in Uvir- are reportedly encircled and
rebel activity has increased in the valley between the
two cities. Also, the UNNC garrison in Uvira is some-
what unreliable. The insurgents in the high ground
around the city have mortars and reportedly again con-
trol the road crossing into Burundi. The present un-
settled situation in Burundi--previously one of the
principal supply routes--may again permit substantial
quantities of aid to reach the rebels.
South of Uvira, the large rebel force in Fizi, which
probably receives arms across Lake Tanganyika, has
stalled all government attempts to move north from Katanga.
These insurgents have not yet been able to dislodge gov-
ernment units from locations along the north Ktangan
border, however.
2. Laos
The military situation continues to be quiet, with
activity limited to rightist clearing operations east
of Sav _nnakhet and some Uglht Communist activity in the
Attopen. area and northeast of the Plaine des Jarres.
There is little new information on Communist troop
dispositions in south-central Laos. The most recent re-
ports have reflected extensive movement of trucks--pre-
sumably empty--north toward North Vietnam. There has
been only a moderate input from North Vietnam along
Routes 12 and 23 in the last week. There is some evidence,
however, that substantial truck movements on Route 7
from North Vietnam to the Plaine des Jarres continue.
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The destruction of the Ban Ken bridge will probably
hamper but not prevent further Communist truck move-
ments on this route. Some traffic has apparently al-
ready forded the river near the downed bridge.
3. Colombia
Leaflets signed by the National Liberation Army
(ELN) and urging the populace to support an antigovern-
ment insurrection appeared on 14 January in the oil
center of Barrancabermeja. ELYT is the leftist extremist
group which attacked the town of Simacota, some 70
miles from Barrancabermeja, on 7 January. The Colombian
Army claims that it has captured three participants in
the Simacota raid.
4. Ecuador
Vencir o Morir (victory or death), an allegedly
well-armed revolutionary faction of the Communist Party
led by a former trainee, in Cuba, claims credit for a
successful bank robbery in Guayaquil on 15 December. It
has also expressed hopes of bombing the US Consulate
General.
The growing dissatisfaction among extreme activists
over the apparent abandonment by the Communist Party of
plans to start early guerrilla ward'-ire appear to have
stimulated the development of terrorist organizations
like the Vencir o Morir.
5, Tenezu~-la
On 11 January a store in Barcelona, eastern Venezuela,
was robbed of about $1,700 by 4me:-. F11ho claimed to be
FALN members. The following day a group of abort 15
armed men machine gunned the police station and at-
tempted to rob a bank in Quiriq_uire, a large eastern
Venezuelan town.
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Havana is emp asa .ing a
Venezuela is one of the three Latin American counn.tries--
along with Colombia and Guatemala--where it considers
prospects for revolutionary success are brightest.
Cuban leaders probably have underscored the importance
of intensifying revolutionary activities in recent
meetings with FALN leaders. Cuba can be expected to
continue to give considerable propaganda support, some
training, and probably some financial aid to the FALN.
6. No significant developments relating to insurgency
have been reported with regard to Sudan, Tanzania,
Ethiopia, Somalia, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan,
Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala,
or Peru.
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