CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: April 2, 1962
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1.. USSR-Berlin. (Page t)
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3. Communist China. National People's Congress. (Page tv)
4. Soviet propaganda presages nuclear test resumption. (Page tv)
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7. Congo: Adoula-Tshombe negotiations, (Page v1)
8. Algeria: French officials concerned about security of pro-
visional executive. (Page vtt)
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12. Argentina. (ge tx)
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
2 April 1962
DAILY BRIEF
*Berlin- USSR: The Soviets have announced no flights in the
Berlin air corridors for 2 April. This. is the first time since
they began their corridor flights on 8 February that the Soviets
have failed to fly in the corridors for four consecutive days. The
flights scheduled for 30 March were later cancelled, ..and no flights
were announced for 31 March. Soviet,.f lights in the air corridors
have never been made on. Sunday.
Jieavy pressure is being continued against the US Military
Liai on Mission in Potsdam even though Soviet Marshal Konev
has agreed to meet with General Clarke to discuss the future of
the US and Soviet missions in East and West Germany respectively.
Konev suggested on 31 March that they meet on 5 April at Soviet
headquarters at Wuensdorf. Konev can be expected once again to
reject protests over the harassment of US Military Liaison Mission
personnel by the East German police and to repeat his charge that
the Americans. are at fault for not heeding "lawful" commands by
the East Germans[(
the chief of the US Military Liaison Mission meanwhile has
been under virtual house arrest in Potsdam, and on 31 March. he
was refused permission to proceed to Berlin. He was also told
by the Soviets to have every pass-bearing member of the. US Mis-
sion in East Germany return to the mission compound at Potsdam.
These moves presumably were in part intended to ensure the pres-
ence of hostages for the safeguarding of Soviet Mission personnel
in Frankfurt. Other developments in the continuing Communist of -
fort to pressure. the Allies into curtailing the. activities of their mil-
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lice of a British Military Liaison Mission vehicle near Dresden aAa
the announcement by the official East German news agency that US
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more explicit and outspoken in their attacks on Khrushchev
Communist China: The virtual news blackout on.daily
proceedings at the National People's Congress suggests that
the. discussions are concerned with economic distress and
popular disillusion on the mainland and probably also with
Sino-Soviet relationse In contrast to past years, Peiping
did not announce the agenda for this congress, which opened
on 27 March. Diplomats and foreign correspondents have
been barred from all. proceedings, and so far no texts of
speeches have been published. Behind the closed doors.of
the congress, the Chinese leaders are possibly being much
USSR-US: The Soviet press has begun a propaganda
campaign which appears designed to show that President
Kennedy is a .champion of preventive nuclear warn This ap-
pears to be a new element in Moscow's current campaign to
justify an eventual. Soviet test resumptione A 31 March a.r-
ticle in Pravda by its authoritative "Observer" and a 1 April
article in d Star distorted the recent statements by the
President on possible US use of nuclear weapons and failed
to acknowledge that the President's statements were based
on a hypothetical situation in which Soviet conventional, forces
would be overrunning Western Europeo The Pravda article
said the President's statements reaffirmed "the monstrous
idea of preventive nuclear warn' It went beyond Moscow's
usual line--which consistently denounces the Pentagon and
US "militarists," but generally stops short of implicating the
Presidentpersonally--and remarked that "it seems that the
President is himself taking the position of the most bellig-
erent part of the Pentagon brass:'
Both articles present the, USSR as being stronger mil-
itarily than the US and brandished the new "global rocket,
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announced by Khrushchev on 16 March. Pravda elaborated
Khrushchev's remarks on this rocket and claimed that it can
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ongo: ou a and Tshombe emerged from their 29 March
negotiating ssion appearing highly pleased and on friendly
terms, but the American ambassador in Leopoldville consid-
ers the situation still "mercurial." UN representative Gard-
iner has sent word to both participants that having exchanged
broadsides in speeches and press releases, they ought to re-
vert to their original agreement to maintain the private char-
acter of the talks. The American ambassador considers that
Adoula's negotiating position has been weakened by the recent
bank strike, the arrests of a prominent trade union leader
and the editor of the princi4 newspaper; and the imminent
prospect of a general str
In Katanga, the absence of Tshombe is reported to have
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seriisly affected the efficiency of the Elisabethville admin-
istration. Belgian advisers of Interior Minister Munongo,
who privately talks of going underground and leading a ma,
quis against the UN and CNA troops, are attempting. to per-
suade him to keep Katanga's affairs in order. There are re-
curring reports that the Katanga air force is being. reorganized
under the guise of a civil airline with headquarters at Kolwezi
an! ,t iat mercenaries continue to circulate outside Elisabeth-
six-member parliamentary commission will visit im-
pried former Vice Premier Gizenga today in the first move
toward stripping the Stanleyville leader of his parliamentary
immunity and bringing him to trial. The government does not,.
expect to encounter serious difficulty in obtaining the votes
needed to lift Gizen a'
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Algeria: )OFrench officials in Algeria. are concerned about
the provision executive's security, which is considered pre-
carious in the absence of an adequate number of reliable body-
guards. OAS commando action against the executive's head-
quarters at Rocher Noir is still possible and expected. Few
OAS members were captured in the exhaustive military search
of the Bab-el-Oued district, and mos presumably fled before
military encirclement was completelb The anger of the. Euro-
pean settlers against the United States over the President's
message to PAG premier Ben Ehedda and the supplying of an
airplane for Ben Bella appears overshadowed by the resent-
ment toward De Gaulle and the French Government. However,
Americans in Algeria have received threatening comments
from local acquaintances, and, in the view, of the US consul
general, retaliation against the Consulate General would not
be surprising.
)( PAG vice premier Ben Bella, who arrived in Cairo on
31 March, intends to travel extensively in the Middle East and
North Africa before returning to Morocco about mid-May. Be-
cause Ben Bella wishes to avoid becoming overidentified with
either Tunisian President Bourguiba or Moroccan King Hassan
II, he and the other members of the PAG reportedly will re-
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*Argentina: Recognition of the precarious stability of Presi-
dent Guido's regime seems behind the cautious statements of sup-
port issued thus far by various political and military groups. .
Those issuing such statements, which have centered on approving
the constitutional basis for the changeover from Frondizi, include
the Supreme Court, the military commanders, and the People's
Radical Civic Union, the major opposition group in Congress. Fron-
dizi and his Intransigent Radical Civic Union (UCRI), which retains
a majority in both houses of Congress until 1 May, urged Guido to
accept the presidency in order to avoid a military junta. The UCRI
has since threatened, however, to boycott the Congress unless Fron-
dizi is released immediately from military detention.
Such action by the UCRI would in effect cancel the agreement
between UCRI leaders and the military on proposed new legislation.
This agreement, which Guido has endorsed, calls for laws to out-
law all totalitarian parties, though without naming the Peronistas or
Communists who would be affected, to modify the basic labor law so
as to reduce the political power of the General Confederation of La-
bor, and to change the electoral system to one of proportional rep-
resentation. A special session of Congress is to be called shortly.
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ing will be deferred until 1964. Although Guido resigned his
UCRI membership upon taking office, the fact that he was a close
supporter of Frondizi's political and economic policies is causing
the military some uneasiness regarding him, and is probably one
LtLatin American. press reaction. to Frondizi's ouster has been
unfavorable, but most governments are consulting each other be-
I of the several reasons for disagreement among the militar
fore taking positions regarding recognition of the Guido govern-
ment. Brazilian Foreign Minister Dantas, to whom President
Goulart reportedly has delegated responsibility for foreign. policy,
has declared "premature" a 30 March. communique by the Brazil-
.ian cabinet press secretary stating that no problem existed for
Brazil regarding recognition. Venezuelan President Betancourt's
campaign to persuade other countries not to recognize the results
of a military coup has raised f in Argentina that this could
undermine th Guido government.
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Communist China Fails to Publicize National People's
Congress Session
While Communist China in recent weeks has avoided di-
rect polemics with the USSR, the Chinese authorities have
continued to indoctrinate the mainland populace on the issues
dividing Peiping and Moscow; the Chinese people have been
told in discussion groups that China's present difficulties are
the result of Soviet economic sanctions. Touring congress
delegates led some of these discussions, and it seems likely
that criticism of Khrushchev has been carried over into the
current congress session.
Economic programs also loom large among likely subjects
under discussion at this session. Any frank appraisal of the
difficulties over. the past two years would by itself be sufficient
reason to close. the congress to public view. The "leap forward"
came to an end in 1960 amid indications of serious imbalances
in industry, bad harvests, and a change in the status of Sino-
Soviet economic relations. Although Peiping has not released
economic data since then, the evidence is persuasive that indus-
try has been in a protracted slump, and agriculture is admitted
to have suffered a third bad year in succession.
The lack of policy statements in recent months, the diminu-
tion of editorial comment in the press, the failure to hold the
National People's Congress in 1961, and the eleventh-hour. deci-
sion to postpone the session beyond its originally scheduled open-
ing date encouraged speculation about disagreements in the Chi-
nese Communist leadership. Most of the regime's leaders, includ-
ing Mao Tse-tung, however, appeared at the opening session of
the congress. Those who did. not attend include former Defense
Minister Peng Te-huai, who lost his government position in 1959,
and politburo members Chen Yun and Tan Chen-tin. The former
was a critic of the radical economic policies of the "leap forward;"
while the latter was one of their most fervent exponents. Peiping
is apparently anxious to quiet. rumors that Mao has been ill. The
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foreign minister has. denied reports of his poor health and a pis
ture of Mao greeting delegates has been published.
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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 Emergency Planning
The Director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State for Political 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
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