WEEKLY REPORT PREPARED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE SENIOR INTERDEPARTMENTAL GROUP

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: December 12, 1966
• Content Type: IR

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Report
Weekly Report
Prepared Exclusively for the
Senior Interdepartmental Group
Secret
12 December 1966
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2. France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. Berlin Holiday Passes . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2. FRANCE
The US will be under increasing pressure to meet
the French-imposed 1 April 1967 deadline for evacua-
tion of US personnel and stocks from military bases
in France. High-level French officials have re-
cently stressed that continued delays in departure
might bring restrictive measures.
The US has not accepted the deadline. While
French officials have indicated informally that
1 April is a target rather than an absolute goal, the
French Government seems intent on discouraging any
slippage. A monthly US forecast of evacuation dates
for December did not specify closing dates for some
major installations. Moreover, it noted that de-
parture from the large air base at Evreux would be
delayed from 31 March, as originally indicated, un-
til 30 June. Upon receipt of this forecast, Paris
immediately pressed for speedier action.
France may hope to put the US in the position of
having to ask for specific exceptions to the dead-
line. De Gaulle could then magnanimously allow the
US to remain beyond 1 April in a few isolated in-
stances and the US would appear to have accepted
the deadline.
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3. BERLIN HOLIDAY PASSES
The East Germans may permit holiday pass visits
to East Berlin without an agreement with the West
Berlin Senat.
Negotiations for another formal pass agreement
began last June, but have been stalled since late
October over an East German demand that the Senat
agree to terminology that implies recognition of the
East German regime. On 7 November the Senat requested
another meeting but the East Germans have not responded.
The Senat learned last month that the East Ger-
mans had already printed the application forms and
passes to be used at Christmas. These probably con-
tain politically objectionable phraseology. On 2
and 3 December, moreover, the East Germans set up be-
tween 15 and 20 booths on their side of the Wall at
two of the four crossing points used for pass visits
last year.
Although a last-minute East German retreat may
still make possible a formal agreement, an effort
to bypass the Senat and deal directly with the West
Berlin people appears more likely. The East Germans,
for example, may handle applications and passes at
the new booths rather than at the 16 locations in
West Berlin used before. Or they may attempt to is-
sue applications and passes at the headquarters of
the small West Berlin SED (Communist Party).
In the past, the Senat has reacted negatively to
rumors that this organization might issue passes.
Visits to East Berlin over Christmas are popular,
however, and the West Berlin government might now
be reluctant to prevent the SED from issuing passes.
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. PANAMA
The issue of Panamanian sovereignty over US
military installations was resurrected following an
incident on 1 December when a Panamanian commercial
aircraft made an."emergency" landing (perhaps con-
trived to create an incident) at the US-leased Rio
Hato training area southwest of Panama City,
Leftists and ultranationalists, joining sensa-
tionalist news media in a storm of anti-US criti-
cism, called the alleged detention of the plane
an affront to Panamanian sovereignty and urged the
foreign minister to protest. Despite clarifying
statements. by US officials, neither the government
nor the news media controlled by the oligarchy re-
tracted inaccuracies or placed the incident in its
proper perspective. On 6 December Foreign Minister
Eleta issued a note which, although not-an official
"protest," asserted Panama's sovereignty over the
Rio Hato area and stated that the US must defer to
Panamanian authorities in similar cases in the fu-
ture.
The Rio Hato affair is another example of the
use of such incidents by Panama's elite to divert
popular resentment from themselves and direct it
against the US. With pressures for a canal settle-
ment likely to increase as active campaigning for
the 1968 election gets under way, it will become
more difficult for politicians to take a rational
position on US-Panamanian relations. The base
rights and status-of-forces agreement has been one
of the most difficult aspects of the canal treaty
settlement currently being negotiated, and the gov-
ernment is making no firm attempt to play down
controversial issues while the talks are progress-
ing.
Panamanian dissatisfaction with the course of
the canal.negotiations could easily be used by the
government to heighten tension between the US and
Panama in the hope of gaining ions on a canal
treaty.
12 December 1966
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