CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: November 17, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
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1. USSR-Finland: Kuznetsov renews pressure on Helsinki.
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7. Singapore: Discontent mounting over Prime Minister
Lee's proposal to merge Singapore with Malaya and over
government's restrictive labor. policies. (Page v)
8. El Salvador: Likelihood of attempt to overthrow regime
grows as opposition attacks reform program backed by
US: (Page vi)
9. LATE ITEM' Situation in the Dominican Republic.
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*USSR-Finland: Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznet=
sov's contention to the Finnish ambassador on 16 November
that the West German threat had become more serious since
the Soviet note of 30 October seems designed to set the stage
for more insistent Soviet demands that Finland accept the
validity of the Soviet charges against Bonn. The Soviets may
have been encouraged to believe that Kekkonen's dissolution
of parliament indicates that additional concessions can be
obtained, particularly a forthright government statement in
line with Gromyko's request for prompt assurances of con-
tinued Finnish neutrality. The renewal of the charges of
Norwegian and Danish cooperation with West Germany may
also be timed to create an atmosphere of anxiety which can
be exploited to place pressure on Oslo and Copenhagen during
Norwegian Foreign Minister Lange's visit to Moscow on 19 No-
vember. In support of his claim that a more alarming situ-
ation had developed with reference to the military threat from
West Germany, Kuznetsov cited the visit by Bonn's Defense
Minister Strauss to Norway, the imminence of NATO maneu-
vers in the Baltic area, and press reports of an early agree-
ment between Denmark and West Germany on a joint naval
command in the Baltic. The Finnish ambassador has been
called back to Helsinki.
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Singapore: Discontent in Singapore is mounting over Prime
Minister Lee Kuan Yew's proposals to merge Singapore and
Malaya into a "Greater Malaysia Federation" and over his gov-
ernment's restrictive labor policies. The regime has used
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strikebreakers and Gurkha forces from the British Army in
an attempt to break a strike of government day laborers, now
in its third week. Other strikes are planned, and students
in the Chinese schools are reported planning demonstrations.
Singapore's leftist opposition party, which has reservations
about some provisions of the merger scheme, has so far
avoided unlawful demonstrations, but Lee may attempt to
provoke such action to give him grounds for interning its
leaders (Backup, Page 2)
El Salvador: In El Salvador, the only Latin American
country where the Alliance for Progress has become a bitter
domestic issue, the likelihood of an attempt to overthrow the
regime is growing with the approach of national elections sched-
uled for 17 December. El Salvador's powerful "14 families,"
in resisting the regime's program of basic socio-economic re-
form, have mounted a propaganda campaign against the regime
and against the US for encouraging the reforms. This campaign
is supported by the entire press. The small but vocal Com-
munist-led element is joining in the attacks. Reports of divi-
sions within the armed forces, and even within the governing
Civil-Military Directorate, have become more persistent in
recent weeks, as have reports that opposition elements are at-
tempting to buy military support for a coup.
SELECTED INTELLIGENCE
REPORTS AND ESTIMATES
6pp. Nov 9'61.
(Available during the preceding week)
Outlook in Eastern Europe: assessment of prospects for
political and economic stability in Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria, including internal trends,
intra-bloc relations, reliability of armed forces, and probable
reaction to intensified Berlin crisis. U. S. I. B. NIE 12-61.
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LATE ITEM
*Dominican Republic (information as of 0230 EDT): With
top military leadership s iIl in question late yesterday as
General Ramfis Trujillo persists in his resolve to resign and
leave the country, a spreading transport strike threatens pub-
lic order in the capital and in the interior. The flow of pro-
duce into the city has been interrupted. There were indica-
tions late on 16 November that the still potent political ma-
chine of the late dictator may be preparing to commit its
strong arm squads against the strikers A leader of the mod-
erate opposition reports that the authorities have been drawing
up lists of opposition leaders, presumably in preparation for
mass arrests.,
aamfis Trujillo told the American Consul General that
his decision to resign was taken for purely personal reasons.
He proposed that General Hector Trujillo, his uncle, remain
in the country as a "symbol of the continuity of the Trujillo
name" necessary to prevent the armed forces from fighting
among themselves. Hector, who served in the presidency
for eight years as the puppet of the late dictator, is anathema
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[Prime Minister Lee's chief difficulty with labor stems
fro a control exercised by the opposition Singapore Social-
ist Front (SSF) over most of Singapore's unions
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borers' strike began with a request for government recogni-
tion on 31 October. This was refused, because the government
feared that the new union would draw members away from the
pro-government Amalgamated Union of Public Employees and
weaken the government's popular base. Planned strikes by
other unions, including a one-day demonstration by the mil-
itary base workers on 20 November, appear to be designed in
part to support the day laborers' strike and in art to protest
against Lee's proposals for merger with Malaya.
Opposition to merger with Malaya turns mainly on the
degree of sovereignty to be surrendered to the Federation Gov-
ernment. Under the present plan, Singapore will surrender
control over external affairs, defense, and internal security
to the Federation Government but retain autonomy over educa-
tion and labor policies. While control over education should
reassure most Chinese elements in Singapore, the leftist ele-
ments, spearheaded by the SSF, attack the surrender of inter-
nal security as relegating Singaporeans to second-class citizen=
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It appears that Lee will seek approval of the merger scheme
thr ug the Legislative Assembly, where he is expected to win
a comfortable majority. If he decides not to hold a referendum
on the issue, he will place the SSF in an untenable position. Its
only chance to block the merger is to bring down the government,
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is prepared to have the leaders interned. If it does not, it faces
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
Special Counsel to the President
Military Representative of the President
the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
The Scientific Adviser to the President
The Director of the Budget
The Director, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
The Director, National Aeronatuics and Space Administration
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 of State for Political Affairs
The Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Under Secretary of the Treasury
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)
The Assistant Secretary of Defense
The Chairman, The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
U.S. Rep., Military Committee and Standing Group, NATO
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander in Chief, Pacific
The Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
The Director, The Joint Staff
The Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
The Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of Army
The Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of Navy
The Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
The Department of Justice
The Attorney General
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Director
The Atomic Energy Commission
The Chairman
The National Security Agency
The Director
The United States Information Agency
The Director
The National Indications Center
The Director
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