CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2003
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• Publication Date: April 29, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
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3. South Vietnam: Viet Cong step up military ac-
tivity. (Page 4)
5. Cuba-USSR: Moscow's welcome to. Castro is
part of all-out effort. to dispel any lingering re-
sentment over missile crisis. (Page 6)
6. Sweden: New foreign minister's statement fails
to show anticipated shift toward West. (Page 7)
7. Notes: Turkey-Greece-Cyprus;
UK-USSR; (Page 8)
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 South Vietnami The Viet Cong have stepped up
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The number of Communist attacks in the week
ending 22 April, reported at 128, was the highest
weekly total since last June. Included were major
offensives in the northern coastal province of Quang
Ngai as well as two company-size actions east of
Saigon. Communist pressure has since been main-
tained throughout the country with larger strikes,
including at least one and probably two battalion-
size attacks on government posts, in the southern-
most province.
In.the largest single attack in several months
a Communist force, estimated at two battalions,
on 27 April inflicted heavy casualties on a large
government unit in the central province of Kontum.
The Viet Cong offensives suggest a continued
ability to mount effective, coordinated actions
throughout the country. The campaign may be an
effort to undercut the psychological effect of Dierb's
amnesty program, recently launched on the first
anniversary of South Vietnam's strategic hamlet
program.
While government troops reported highly suc-
cessful counteraction in Quang Ngai, claiming to
have inf licted nearly 400 casualties, they failed to
engage the large Viet Cong concentrations in the
south which awarently dispersed rapidly after at-
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Cuba-USSR: The massive Red Square welcome
given Castro on 28 April is part of Moscow's all-out
effort to counteract the lingering resentment he prob-
ably still harbors over Soviet actions during the mis-
sile crisis.
The presence of Minister of Economy Boti in
Castro's entourage suggests that the Cuban and So-
viet leaders are likely to discuss matters relating
to economic assistance. Also accompanying Castro
are Deputy Minister and Chief of Staff Sergio del
Valle and other military aides.
the end of May.
stop after Mosco
The US Embassy in Algiers expects Castro to
arrive there on or about 12 May, although no dates
have been officially announced. Algerian Premier
Ben Bella told Ambassador Porter on 26 April that
it was Castro who had initiated the idea of the visit
to Algeria. Castro probably will return to Cuba by
There is no evidence to support press specula-
tion that Castro is to travel on to Communist China.
Algeria is to be the only
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Sweden: The first official policy statement of
Foreign Minister Torsten Nilsson, made on 23
April, suggests he is unlikely to give Sweden's his-
toric neutrality policy a more pro-Western orienta-
tion--something many observers anticipated when
he took office last September.
Nilsson avoided any phraseology helpful to US
positions, e. g., on disarmament, and did not say
anything which might annoy Moscow. An official
of the Soviet Embassy in Stockholm expressed great
satisfaction with the statement, which included a
strong endorsement of "peaceful coexistence'" even
though this was defined in terms of an "open society:'
Nilsson interpreted the Cuban crisis in such 4 way
as to prove the current importance of the nuclear-
free-zones plan of former Foreign Minister Unden.
The US Embassy in Stockholm comments that
the most charitable explanation of the statement is
the desire to pave the way for a hearty welcome for
Nilsson next month in Moscow. Nilsson also appar-
ently desired to mollify Unden's left wing of the ruling
Social Democratic Party. A Swedish official said
that Nilsson would act more independently later
but for the time being had to nod to Unden.
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Turkey-Greece-Cyprus: Anti-Turkish feeling
is still running high in Greece, even though Cyprus
President Makarios' moderate response to last week's
court ruling which nullified ethnic municipal councils
on Cyprus may pave the way for a compromise solu-
tion of that problem. A major issue is Turkish de-
lay in issuing a passport to the Greek Orthodox pa-
triarch of Istanbul, Athenagoras, who wishes to take
part in religious ceremonies in Greece. The Creeks
widely suspect that this delay is politically inspired,
and their emotional public discussion of it may fur-
ther harden the Turkish position on all questions re-
lp,ting to relations with Greece.
UK-USSR: egotiations which may lea to a
break in Western restrictions on the sale of large-
diameter pipe to the USSR are being continued by a
British firm in Moscow. There is no indication
that the British Government will retreat from its
position that it has no legal authority to stop ship-
ments. The government of Japan, which as a non-
member of NATO did not participate in the "embargo"
decision, indicates it expects e re pressure to
permit resumption of pipe sales
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
Special Counsel to the President
The Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
The Scientific Adviser to the President
The Director of the Budget
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
Commander in Chief, Atlantic
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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