SENIOR INTERDEPARTMENTAL GROUP

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: October 10, 1966
• Content Type: IR

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No. 1871/66
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INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Prepared Weekly
for the
SENIOR INTERDEPARTMENTAL GROUP
DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
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meaning of Title 18, sections 793 and 794, of the US
Code, as amended. Its transmission or revelation
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to USSR-CHINA
Moscow has taken advantage of the indefensible
position in which the Chinese have placed them-
selves in the world view to resume the political
offensive against Pekingo
Soviet propaganda in the last few weeks has
abandoned the restraint that had marked its comments
on Chinese affairs since Khrushchev's fallen Moscow
is making the most of the condemnation of Peking
now issuing from most of the other Communist capitalso
Within the past few days, the USSR has also published
calls by the Sudanese. and Ecuadorean parties for an
all-party conferenceo
Moscow is obviously encouraging foreign parties
to join the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in
this concert of condemnations The publication of
the Sudanese and Ecuadorean declarations almost cer-
tainly was a trial balloono A speech by North
Korea?s Kim I1-sung on 5 October, however, points
up-the opposition Moscow can expect from other "neu-
tralists"--including Rumania, North Vietnam, Yugo-
slavia, and probably Poland--if it pushes for any
formal rupture with the Chinesev
The Soviets also seem to be making points against
the Chinese on the Vietnam frontm Soviet persuasion
must have had much to do with the recent flurry of
bloc promises and missions to Hanoio
In sum, the Soviets are carrying the attack to
the Chinese with as much support from the other Commu-
nists as they~can reasonably musters Whether they
are actually planning some kind of joint and formal
anti-Chinese action in the near future is unclear,
but they are obviously taking soundings and pre-
paring for that eventuality
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3o EGYPT
The Nasir-regime has instituted a striden?tr propa-
ganda campaign via press and radio in-what seems to be
an effort to demonstrate Egypt?s ability to embarrass
the US on a wide front
For the most part, the campaign consists of dis-
seminating '"news" of US activities outside of Egypt On
the Vietnam issue Cairo radio has featured the Bertrand
Russell plan to "try American war criminalso" A gov-
ernment-run peasants' conference in late September
formally accused the US of bombing Vietnamese peasantsm
On a subject closer to Nasir.?s immediate interests,
the Cairo propaganda machine has widely disseminated
charges of US plotting made by the Egyptian puppet re-
gime in Yemeno For some. time Cairo has claimed that
the US supports King Faysal?s "Islamic Solidarity
Pacto" which Nasir feels is aimed at hime The latest
and most virulent attack is a "conspiracy against
Syria" campaign, which alleges US, Saudi, and Jordanian
collusion in subversive schemeso The major government-
owned papers have given the charge front-page, banner
headlines, and Cairo radio has devoted considerable
time to ito
So far there has-been no mention of the US position
at Wheelus Air Base in Libya, which served as a target
two years agoo Nasir may be holding this issue in re-
serve for a time when he wishes to step up the pressure?
No particular reason is known by the US intelli ence
community for this propaganda campaigno
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Nasir's problems with the Yemeni Arab Repub-
lic appear to be approaching a climax. During
the past month Egyptian dominance has become in-
creasingly blatant, and. there are signs that it may
become even more. complete. By so doing, Nasir may
undermine the very basis of his position, the tol-
erance of the republican tribes.
The tribes are the only effective political
force in the. country. By liberal use of gold and
guns Nasir has generally succeeded in controlling
those not in league. with Imam Badr and-the royal
family. The tribes have viewed the Egyptians as a
means of regaining political prerogatives for them-
selves which had been lost under recent imams.
The pervasiveness of Egyptian control has of-
fended them more and more, however. They supported
the ousted ai-Amri government and initially backed
its ill-fated attempt to face down the Egyptians
last month. The al-Amri cabinet has been under ar-
rest in Cairo since it "resigned," and Cairo ap-
pears to have dictated most of Sallal's new cab-
inet.
Nasir's next moves will hit the tribal leaders
even harder. The trial of the followers of al-
Amri apparently is to be completed soon. The
5allal government is purging most remaining repub-
lican leaders-with independent strength. Nearly
100 top military officers have been dismissed and
the paramount chief of Rashid, the most powerful
tribe in Yemen, is reported under house arrest.
The imprisonment of these figures, especially
the chief of Rashid, would probably drive many of
the tribes into open rebellion. This would in
turn almost certainly bring the royalist tribes to
the side of their countrymen against the "foreign
invaders," and might bring Saudi Arabia and the
British in Aden
against Nasir.
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5a :GUATEMALA
Following the accidental death of Communist guerrilla
leader Luis Turciosg newly appointed FAR chief Cesar
Montes held a mountain press conference in which he rem
stated the guerrillas' commitment to revolutiono
Montes denounced a major army counterinsurgent of-
fensive now in progress and warned that continued mili-
tary "provocation" would incite the FAR to step up its
activities until the revolution was wono Montes also
warned that the. FAR was being provoked by extreme right-
ists who are plotting against the Mender gove~?nment and
who have set out on a counterterrorist program directed
against the Communists and other leftistso
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