CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 29, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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II. ASIA-AFRICA
Petukhov, who has been serving as chairman of the Moscow
sovnarkhoz (council of national economy). F_ I
29 December 1959
DAILY BRIEF
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USSR: The removal of Yury Maksarev as head of the State
Scientific -Technical Committee suggests that this committee
has run into difficulties in carrying out its part of the industrial
automation and mechanization program called for at last June's
party central committee meeting. A number of specific measures
under this program were to have been completed by this time,
and the lack of progress reports also suggests that the program
may be lagging. Maksarev has been replaced by Konstantin
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m Laos: ~-P-remier Phoui's meeting with the King on 27 De-
cember in an effort to resolve the current political crisis
_proved ind.onclusive. The King apparently offered to rename
Phoui as head of a provisional government which would in-
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The King also insisted that the National Assembly agree: that
its mandate had lapsed. Phoui anticipates some difficulty in
persuading his political followers to accept this solution
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Afghanistan: With the death on 25 December of elder
statesman Shah Mahmud, uncle of the King and of Prime
Minister Daud, the Afghan Government has lost an influen-
tial contact with the country's Pushtoon tribes. The govern-
ment will view this loss as untimely, since it is facing
mounting opposition to its modernization policies and is
attempting to prevent the s read of unrest to the major tribes.
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I. THE. COMMUNIST BLOC
Chief of Soviet State Scientific- e - n ca Committee Replaced
The removal of Yury Maksarev as head of the USSR State
-.Scientific-Technical Committee suggests that this committee
has run into difficulties in carrying out its part of the indus-
trial automation and mechanization program called for at last
June's party central committee meeting. The plenum had or-
dered a series of specific measures designed to create an en-
vironment within which all participants in Soviet industry--
from the lowest worker to Gosplan officials--would find tech-
nological advances personally desirable and profitableo
The success of this program is important for the fulfill-
ment of industrial output goals for 1965 and for the achieve-
ment of significant progress in "catching up with the West:'
Many of.. the specific measures were scheduled to be drafted
by the end of 1959 or earlier, and some plans may have been
worked out. However, thus far these deadlines have passed
without any public recognition, which suggests that the program
may be .lagging
(if the removal of Maksarev is, in fact., connected with a
lag in he automation program, it suggests that the Soviet lead-
ers are giving prompt and continuous attention to its progress
and have no intention of allowing a default in the program. A
default did occur in a similar program launched in 1955 and may
have been a contributing factor in the abandonment of the Sixth
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. Afghan Government Loses Influential Contact With
Pushtoon Tribes
he Afghan Government has lost an influential contact
with-TIcountry's Pushtoon tribes with the death of elder
statesman Shah Mahmud, uncle of the King and Prime Min-
ister Daud.. Shah Mahmud had more prestige among the tribes
than any other member of the royal family and, although he
had been much less active in government affairs since Daud
replaced him as prime minister in 1953, he helped placate
tribal opposition to Daud's policies.
The Daud government will. view his loss as untimely,
since its modernization policies are meeting mounting resist-
ance. The tribes fear that road improvements in their terri-
tory will be used to extend the government's control over them.
This fear has apparently been a main reason for the increas-
ingly frequent and serious tribal incidents that began with the
killing of a district official near the Pakistani border in Decem-
ber 1958.
Opposition apparently has become more widespread since
the government began last August to encourage women to appear
in public without the veil, its boldest social reform to date.
The resulting antigovernment riots in Kandahar on 21 Decem-
ber are probably viewed by Daud as a serious challenge to his
control.
Daud very likely intends, however, to press ahead with his
modernization policies, believing that to give in to the country's
conservative religious leaders or to allow Afghanistan's Push-
toon tribes to remain beyond the government's control would
ultimately lead to the downfall of the royal family and to inter-
vention by foreign power,
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Laotian Political Crisis
Premier Phoui saw King Savang on 27 December in an
effort to resolve the current political crisis, but the meet-
ing was inconclusive. The King is reported to have insisted
that the National Assembly deputies should publicly admit that
the assembly's mandate lapsed on 25 December. This ac-
complished, Savang would rename Phoui as the head of a pro-
visional government based on the premier's present all con-
servative cabinet. The King added, however, that as a "con-
ciliatory gesture," Phoui should allow the reformist Com-
mittee for Defense of National Interests (CDNI) to reenter the
government "at once."
Phoui anticipates difficulty in getting the assembly dep-
uties of his conservative Rally of the Lao People (RLP) to
admit publicly that they had erroneously interpreted the Con-
stitution and a 1957 electoral law in an effort to continue par-
liamentary government after 25 December. While Phoui can
be expected to continue to maneuver to salvage as much of his
position as is practicable,,. he is in a difficult position. He re-
mains under the threat of military action by Generals Ouane
and Phoumi, who are leading CDNI members, and with the King
now openly prescribing a solution which substantially meets
CDNI demands, the premier seems to have little choice but to
find some face-saving means of acceding to their terms.
While constitutional matters have been in the forefront of
the dispute between Phoui and the CDNI, the crisis stems basic-
ally from the efforts of the young CDNI activists to displace
the older conservatives, who represent a few powerful clans,
as the ruling elite of Laos. The CDNI accuses the conserva-
tives of corruption and a lack of dynamism in meeting the
serious problems facing the government. The conservatives,
on the other hand, claim the young reformists are brash and
inexperienced and tend to take ill-considered actions
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
Scientific Adviser to the President
Director of the Budget
Director, Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization
Director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Special Assistant for Security Operations Coordination
Chairman, Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities
Special Assistant for Foreign Economic Policy
Executive Secretary, National Security Council
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The.Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary for Administration
The Counselor
Director, International Cooperation Administration
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Chairman, The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
The Director, The Joint Staff
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Assistant to Secretary of Defense for Special Operations
Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of Army
Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of Navy
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander in Chief, Pacific
The Department of Commerce
The Secretary of Commerce
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Director
Atomic Energy Commission
The Chairman
National Security Agency
The Director
National Indications Center
The Director
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