CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 9, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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7. Common Market--Britain: Belgian-Dutch efforts
for interim UK-EEC economic arrangement ap-
parently fail. (Page 7)
9. Syria: Revolutionary command announces forma-
tion of cabinet. (Page 9)
10. Notes: USSR-Cambodia; Indonesia-Malaysia;
Afghanistan; Pakistan. (Page 10)
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Common Market--Britain( Efforts in the Benelux
countries to work out some kin of interim economic
tie between Britain and t e Common Market appear to
have reached a dead end.
At a meeting in Brussels on 6 March, Britain's
chief Common Market negotiator and. the Belgian and
Dutch foreign ministers agreed there was little pros-
pect of establishing a limited customs union, free
trade area, or other such economic arrangement be-
tween the UK and the Six)
The three did agree to attempt to raise at a
ties among the WEU members. There is some doubt
the French would agree to such a discussion, however)
European Union (WEU) the question of what might be
done to strengthen political, military, and cultural
meeting later this month of the seven-nation Western
ailure of the Belgian initiative--and of similar
West German proposals--results from the growing
realization that to negotiate some form of associa-
tion between the UK and the EEC would be almost as
difficult as to negotiate full membership. The Mac-
millan government has stressed the political impos-
sibility of resuming talks with the EEC on this b is
without assurances against another French veto)
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*Syria: The revolutionary command announced
on 9 March the formation of a coalition cabinet
headed by Baathist Salah al-Din al-Bitar, who was
designated premier and foreign minister. He was
co-founder of the Baath party with Michel Af laq in
.1954. Bitar was foreign minister in left-wing cabi-
nets from June 1956 up to the union with Egypt in
February 1958. Also included in the cabinet is Abd
al-Wahab Hawmad, a leader of the left-wing faction
of the Populist party, who was appointed finance
minister.
The revolutionary command has received
pledges of support from all significant army units
and appears to be in firm control.
Opposition by a part of the air force was evi-
dently overcome by yesterday afternoon. Tight se-
curity controls and a rigorously-enforced curfew
have been instituted.
The forces behind the coup apparently include
Baathists, pro-Nasirists, and middle-of-the-road
Arab nationalists. Their coalition may prove to be
fragile, however, with one group or another trying
to move quickly into a dominant role. The Baath
party's international chief, Michel Aflaq, who trav-
eled to Damascus from Beirut yesterday evening,
may press for this kind of action.
The revolutionary command has espoused posi-
tive neutrality and declared itself in favor of Arab
unity in some form; it has attempted, however, to
keep a careful balance between its gestures toward
Iraq and toward the UARO Each of those govern-
ments has declared that it-would send military sup-
port, if necessary, to protect the Syrian revolution.
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*USSR-Cambodia: The Cambodian defense min-
ister has confirmed that the USSR is providing Cam-
bodia with six MIG-17s (Frescos), with delivery ex-
pected in about one month. He said Cambodian per-
sonnel probably would be sent to the USSR for pilot
and maintenance training. Delivery of the jets will
break the West's monopoly in militar assistance
to Cambodia.
ructed to step up their subversive campaign against
alayan Prime Minister Rahman and the Malaysia
Indonesia- Malaysia: Indonesian Communist
Party agents in Malaya and Singapore have been in-
Federation project. Party chairman Aidit ordered
them to stimulate labor agitation, infiltrate govern-
ment offices, and take other steps to undermine
Rahman. These Communist efforts parallel the
Indonesian Government's campaign against Rahman
a4d Malaysia. I)
Formation of a more rmanent government may
ke several months, (The King appears to be in
Afghanistan: King Zahir Shah reportedly is ap-
pointing a caretaker government of civil servants
after accepting Prime Minister Daud's resignation.
1 control so far and Kabul is calm, with no un-
usual security measures evident
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Pakistan: The Ayub regime is seriously con-
cernerdover the growth of labor unrest in Karachi
following the killing of four strikers by police on 1
March. The government is seeking settlements of
grievances which have idled to 60,000 workers
and several hundred plants. Officials fear that the
rest may spread to East akistan where some
ntiregime demonstrations are being planned in con-
nection with the National Assembly session which
.opened on 8 March.
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