CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: August 23, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
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4. Ghana: Peiping grants interest-free credit of nearly
$20,000,000 to Ghana. (Page it)
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6. Dominican Republic: President Balaguer fears pressure
from military leaders may force him to resign. (Page iti)
7. Sudan: Police clash with demonstrators of influential Ansar
religious sect, (Page tv)
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Communist China - Ghanao. Communist China's grant of
an interest-free credit of nearly ~ZO,000,000 to Ghana points
up a major Chinese foreign policy goal of winning support
among the new African states. In addition to the credit, China
and Ghana concluded several other agreements during Pres-
ident Nkrumah's visit to China from 14-19 August, including
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a friendship treaty, a trade agreement, and a cultural coop-
eration pact. Elsewhere in Africa, Peiping has previously
granted a credit of $25,000,000 to Guinea, pledged aid to the
Mali Government, and extended financial support to the
Algerian rebels and the Stanleyville Congo regime.
Nkrumah visited the USSR prior to his arrival in China
and received assurances of increased technical assistance
and trade. He has now returned to the Soviet Union, possibly
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Dominican Republic., LPresident Balaguer told the Amer-
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ican consul on F1 -August that increasing pressures from the
Dominican military may force him to resign. He said the of-
ficer corps is determined to halt his liberalization program
and is demanding that the government reimpose the "old con-
trols and system." Balaguer, who appeared more depressed
than the consul had ever seen him, said flatly that he would
resign rather than submit to the military demands. The Pres
ident evaded questions on General Ramfis Trujillo's position,
but the consul got the impression that Ramfis is "at least go-
iing along" with the officers pressuring Balaguer. Earlier
this month, Ramfis told the consul that unrest was becoming
extensive in the armed forces, that Balaguer did not under-
stand the military or command their respect, and that the_~
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Mahdi may feel that this latest police action, which resulted in
the death of 12 Ansar youths as well as several policemen, has
placed him in a position where he must make a vigorous anti-
ian government, despite protests from other opposition figures that
the government is using the negotiations as a stalling tactic. The
LyotiatinLr with the military rulers for a peaceful transition to civil!'
is also the most important figure in the opposition, has been ne
ments who have recently been agitating for a return to civilian
government. The head of the Ansar sect, Siddiq al-Mahdi, who
Sudan: The 21 August clash between Sudanese police and
demonstrators of the influential Ansar religious sect may force
a showdown between the military regime and opposition ele-
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Chinese Aid to Ghana
The credit agreement with Ghana, like the one signed with
Guinea last year, does not specify projects to be aided by the
Chinese but states that the credit will be used over the next five
years for technical assistance and training and for purchases of
machinery and equipment. Specific construction projects and
training programs are to be negotiated later. Repayment of
the credit, which will not begin until 1971 and will be spread
over a 10-year period, will be made either in commodities or
in convertible currency. The agreement brings the total of
Sino-Soviet bloc economic . aid to Ghana to nearly$ 110,000,000.
Sino-Ghanaian trade in 1960 amounted to only $4,345,000
and. accounted for. less than 1 percent of total Ghanaian trade in
that year. Under the five-year trade agreement, however, com-
merce. between the two countries is planned to reach a level of
$22,400,000 annually and to include Chinese shipments of ma-
chinery, chemicals, metals, textiles, and foodstuffs, and Gha-
naian exports of cocoa beans, peanuts, coconut oil, hides and
skins, and industrial diamonds. Specific information on the
value of individual commodities to be exchanged was not an-
nounced but presumably trade will consist primarily of cocoa
beans from Ghana and textiles and light industrial goods from
China. Such trade would be advantageous to both bountries but
particularly to Ghana, which has been actively seeking additional
markets for its cocoa.
Nkrumah's visit to Peiping has apparently done much to
bolster the relationship between the two countries; Chinese Chief
of State Liu.Shao-chi termed the visit a "complete success:' The
Ghana leader was received by Peiping's top leaders, including
Mao Tse-tung. As he' had done in other bloc capitals visited dur-
ing his current tour, Nkrumah expressed his support for Peiping's
right to UN membership and for reorganization of the UN.
This new credit to Ghana brings total Chinese aid to underde-
veloped countries outside the bloc to $378,000,000, of which less
than one fifth has been drawn to date, mostly by Indonesia and
Cambodia. The largest single Chinese economic credits, $84,000,-
000 and $60,000,000, were extended to Burma and. Cuba respectively.
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Military Pressures May Force Dominican
President's Resignation
The freedom currently being permitted opposition ele-
ments in the Dominican Republic follows a generation of
enforced political quiet under the longest and most ruthless
tyranny in recent Latin American history. Hostility toward
the armed forces is widespread in the opposition, which in-
cludes most business and professional people. Though mod-
erate leaders try to restrain their followers, there have been
frequent public provocations of the military. Many military
officers consequently feel their positions are directly threat-
ened by the new political liberties inherent in the President's
liberalization program.
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On 20 August, at least two opposition leaders were killed
in Santiago, the country's second largest city, either by
aroused army or police officers acting independently or by
mobs organized and directed by the military. The killings,
which followed similar deaths in the north coast town of Sosua
a week earlier, have led most businesses in Santiago to close
in protest, according to information reaching the. US Consulate
on 21 August. The moderate National Civic Union has publicly
accused "the authorities" of the murders, and many Dominicans
appear. convinced that the era of police repression and brutality
is returning.
General Ramf is Trujillo told the consul on 21 August that
incidents like those in Santiago and Sosua are to be expected as
the opposition "grows stronger and incites against the military:'
He added that if there are attacks on military installations,
"worse things will happen:' Trujillo, whose past support of
Balaguer has been vital, now appears in the opinion of the con-
sul to be unprepared to take the firm action that would. be
required to prevent such incidents. He may estimate that if
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he attempted to do so he would risk losing control over the
armed forces.
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President Balaguer frankly told the consul on 21 August that
he had been trying to deport the leaders of the pro-Castro Domin-
ican Popular Movement, but that the military had blocked the ac-
tion for "tactical" reasons, evidently in the belief that having a
Communist threat in the Dominican Republic would accelerate
US and OAS support for the regime. The late dictator tried this
tactic on several occasionso
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The Department of State
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