CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: January 12, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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AL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
12 January 1961
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II. ASIA-AFRICA
anono, and their advance apparently has been welcomed
paracommandos" reportedly arrived in Elisabethville
y commercial airline on 9 January, and 42 more are ex-
ected on 16 January. Meanwhile, the Gizenga forces
ave been sighted heading southwest into Katanga from
peans for service in his forces. Twenty-five Belgian
Congo: Tshombe is preparing to resist Gizenga ele-
ments who are entering Katanga, and is mobilizing Euro-
shaken by a police mutiny over pay. The Congolese Army
meanwhile continues restive concerning the recent dissident
y anti-Tshombe Baluba tribesmen.
In Leopoldville, Mobutu's position has been further
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Cyprus: The Cyprus Government is showing some con-
tern over increasing activities of the Pancyprian Fighters
Association, an extremist, right-wing opposition group of
former members of EOKA--the Greek Cypriot underground
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organization against the British. Leaders of the group are
calling for repudiation of the Cyprus settlement, demanding
union with Greece, and denouncing President Makarios as a
"traitor'' The government expects some trouble
patriotic celebration on 15 January.
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*Laos: Premier Khrushchev's letter to Prince Sihanouk
endorsing his 1 January proposal to convene a 14-nation I
conference on the Laotian situation was probably intended
to capitalize on growing Asian concern over the future course
of events in Laos as well as to encourage what the USSR claims
are increasing signs of disagreement among the Western al-
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Laos. The Pathet Lao radio stresses the need for continuing
the armed struggle. A North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry
spokesman on 11 January denounced as a "fresh provocation"
the delivery to the Phoumi forces of US "fighter" planes and
helicopters.
III. WATCH COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS
A. No Sino-Soviet bloc country intends to initiate hostilities
against the United States or its possessions in the imme-
diate future
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B. Co Sino-Soviet bloc country intends deliberately to
initiate direct military action against US forces ab
US allies, or areas peripheral to the bloc in the imme-XMM
diate futur W
C. With continuing substantial bloc logistic support, par-
ticularly airlift, the Communist forces in Laos will
consolidate their hold on the vital Xieng Khouang/Plaine
des Jarres area and will maintain pressure on Phoumi's
forces elsewhere in Laos. There are as yet no indica-
tions of bloc military reaction. to the arrival of armed
T-6 aircraft in Vientiane, but their successful employ-
ment would probably lead to increased bloc military com-
mitments in Laos, possibly including similar aircraff.
D. &hile there
are no reliable indications that the Castro
regime intends any hostile military action against Guan-
tanamo- Naval Base, the possibility of such action, given
Castro's rashness and instability, cannot be completely
discounted. There is evidence of a substantial increase
in Cuba's military capabilities, and the current campaign
to convince the populace that the US intends armed ac-
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The Situation in the Congo
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hombe is preparing to resist Gizenga elements that
ntered Katanga and is mobilizing some Europeans for
e in his forces
Twenty-five Belgian "paracommandos" reportedly ar-
rive in Elisabethville. by commercial aircraft on 9 January,
and 42 more are expected on 16 January. Although the.reasons
or engaging the "paracommandos" are not known, there have
been reports that Tshombe had reservations concerning the
loyalty of his Katanga militia and hoped to recruit an all-
white bodyguard battalion in Europe.
In Leopoldville, Mobutu's position has been further shaken
by a police mutiny over pay. The Congolese Army meanwhile
continues restive concerning the recent dissident successes,
and irritated over Mobutu's alleged favoritism toward certain
units.
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Cyprus Government Concerned by Actions of
. Extremist Group .
archbishop Makarios and other officials of the Cypriot.
Government are showing some concern over the extremist
right-wing opposition Pancyprian Fighters Association,
whose increasing activities since mid-December they re-
gard as more dangerous than those of the Cypriot Commu-
nists. The first meeting of the. Fighters Association, held
in July 1960, reportedly was attended by 93 former mem-
bers of EOKA--the Greek Cypriot underground organization
which fought against the British. The group made a rather
futile effort to oppose the candidates of the conservative
Patriotic Front and. the Communist AKEL in parliamentary
elections in early Augus
Little was heard of the organization from then until
mid cember, when it intended to
use the annual 15 January celebration of a 1950 plebiscite
on "enosis" -union of Cyprus with Greece--to circulate
petitions urging enosis and to stage a parade protesting the
London- Zurich Agreements, which provided for Cypriot
independence. The government expects trouble at that time.
Two hundred persons reportedly attended a Fighters As-
sociation. meeting in Nicosia on 7 January at which speakers
urged renewal of the demand for enosis and repudiation of
the Cyprus settlement, and denounced Makarios as a "trai-
tor.
e organization does not now appear to be a serious
threat to the moderate government, but its emphasis on
enosis could add serious strains to the tenuous and largely
artificial ties tending to bind together the Greek and Turkish
Cypriot communities
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Situation in Laos
Khrushchev'sletter endorsing Prince Sihanouk's 1 Jan-
uary call for a 14-nation conference to deal with the Laotian
situation was published in Phnom Penh on 11 January. Hanoi
had endorsed Sihanouk's proposal on 5 January. This latest
maneuver may be intended to capitalize on growing Asian
concern over the course of events in Laos. The bloc prob-
ably also feels that by endorsing Sihanouk's general propos-
als to. reconvene a new conference along the lines of the 1954
Geneva Conference it will maintain its posture of seeking a
political settlement to the Laos crisis and offset any propos-
al for renewing: the ICC on Western terms.
The Communists probably also feel that endorsement of
the proposal will encourage what the bloc claims is increas-
ing evidence of disagreement among the Western allies con-
cerning a policy toward Laos. Recent Soviet propaganda has
attempted to exploit this theme, and TASS claimed on 10 Jan-
uary that US efforts to "demonstrate Western unity and the
effectiveness of SEATO in Laos have completely failed." Al-
though. bloc propagandists continue to call f or reactivation of
the ICC, a 7 January Soviet broadcast reiterated Moscow's op-
position to any plan which would entail recognition of the Boun
Oum government.
Terming the arrival, of the T-6 aircraft in Laos a "fresh
provocation;" a North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokes-
man on 11 January stated that "US imperialists and their satel-
lites should bear full responsibility for the grave consequences.'
;The relative lull in the fighting in Laos continues.
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