WEEKLY REPORT PREPARED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE SENIOR INTERDEPARTMENTAL GROUP

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: January 3, 1967
• Content Type: IR

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Report
Weekly Report
Prepared Exclusively for the
Senior Interdepartmental Group
Secret
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3 January 1967
No. 0391/67
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C O N T E N T S
2. Angola-Congo . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. Panama . . . . . .
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ANGOLA/CONGO: Locations of Insurgent Action
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2. ANGOLA-CONGO
Portuguese-Congolese relations have deteriorated
recently.
On 27 December Lisbon warned of new but unspeci-
fied measures to be taken against the Congo as the
result of an unusually large-scale border raid by
Congo-based Angolan insurgents on Vila Teixeira de
Sousa (see map).
Portugal can bring the Congo's trade-oriented
economy--particularly geared to copper exports--
virtually to a halt. Practically all Congolese
trade must pass either over Angola's Benguela Rail-
road or over the Voie Nationale, which depends
on continued dredging of the Congo River by the
Portuguese.
During periods of strain in relations with
the Congo, Portugal has kept open the possibility
that these routes might be affected. In the past,
however, even when the insurgent threat was far
more serious, the Portuguese have contented them-
selves with lesser actions, which were sufficient
to remind the Congolese of the economic facts of
life.
In the present confrontation, Portugal announced
that the insurgents had cut the Benguela rail line
during the attack, but after a few days it reopened
the line to traffic.
The latest incident was preceded in early Decem-
ber by two raids in which 26 Portuguese were killed,
the highest weekly total in years. The Portuguese
at that time retaliated with a limited closure of
the Angola-Congo border. Lisbon's goal is to get
Kinshasa to withhold the support which has recently
enabled Holden Roberto's Revolutionary Government
in Exile to step up its cross-border operations.
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3. PANAMA
Although many key issues remain to be settled,
the Robles government is becoming more optimistic
about prospects for reaching a canal settlement with
the US this year. Foreign Minister Eleta left on a
trip to the US on 31 December in an attempt to speed
up the negotiations.
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Panama City news media--largely owned or con-
trolled by government officials and members of the
oligarchy--are giving heavy coverage to the nego-
tiations. At the same time, they are urging the
public to avoid "fruitless excesses" on the approach-
ing third anniversary of the Canal Zone riots of
9-11 January 1964 which might adversely affect the
negotiations. This is in marked contrast with the
emotional anti-US campaign carried by most media
following an incident at the US-leased Rio Hato
training area early in December.
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