CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: July 31, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. North Korea - US: More armed clashes are pos-
sible following the 29 and 30 July incidents.
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3. British Guiana: The government continues its
drift toward closer ties with Cuba and the bloc.
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4. Venezuela: The Communists resume guerrilla
activity in western Venezuela. (Page 4)
6. Burma: Secret discussions are under way be-
tween the regime and underground Communist
leaders. (Page 6)
7. Communist China: Chinese denounce Soviets as
accomplices of imperialism for negotiating test-
ban agreement. (Page 7)
8. Notes: Finland - West Germany;
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*North Korea - US: More armed clashes are pos-
sible following the 29 and 30 July incidents in which
three US soldiers were killed by North Koreans.
US and possibly North Korean military forces
along the demilitarized zone have been placed on an
alert status.
The incidents do not appear to have been a delib-
erate effort to increase tension along the demilitarized
zone. North Korean reconnaissance and infiltration
groups have frequently been active in the past across
the demilitarized zone in this general area. On 29
July, US troops were ambushed, most likely by such
an armed North Korean group after it had apparently
been detected by US forces. The attackers may have
continued into South Korea. Two groups of North
Koreans were engaged by US and South Korean forces
some 6 miles south of the demilitarized zone on 30
July. Four of the North Koreans were killed.
Pyongyang propaganda has not yet mentioned the
incidents. The only previous North Korean attack on
'US forces since the 1953 armistice occurred on 20
November 1962. The North Koreans made no attempt
to exploit this incident for propaganda purposes.
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*British Guiana: (The Jagan government continues
to drift toward closer ties with Cuba. and the Soviet bloc.
Georgetown recently proposed to set up a govern-
men corporation to take over British Guiana Airways.
There is ample indication that one motive behind this
proposal is a desire to open regular air service with
Cuba. Jagan intimated as much at the West Indies
"summit" last week where he insisted that Cuba be
brought into any regional sea or air service that may
be established
Havana radio is already claiming that British
Guia a has granted Cuba reciprocal landing rights.
It also asserts that Georgetown is not only agreeable
to facilitating Cuban air access to British Guiana but
also throughout the Caribbean area as well.
Condon is considering a procedure to impede the
movement via British territories of subversives by
requiring all travelers to and from Cuba to possess
transit visas. This procedure, however, would leave
a considerable loophole as the K would issue such
visas to "legitimate" travelers.
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Venezuela: The Communists have resumed guer-
rilla activity in western Venezuela.
In the past several days, guerrilla groups tem-
porarily held three small towns in Falcon State. The
Venezuelan Government has been conducting extensive
counterguerrilla operations there since early this
year. These raids resulted in several government
casualties and the loss of arms and ammunition.
The guerrilla forces are almost certainly involved
with the Communist-led Armed Forces of National
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Burma: Secret discussions are under way between
the Ne Win regime and Burmese underground Co mu-
nist leaders who recently returned from Peiping.
Eighteen of the Burmese Communist leaders who
fled`to China in the early 1950s have arrived without
publicity in Rangoon since mid-July, according to
local observers. The Communists were flown in on
Chinese Communist aircraft and were met by Burmese
military representatives.
The talks are a part of Ne Win's over-all effort
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and ethnic groups. However, the Burmese Commu-
nist movement's total membership is estimated at only
1,200 and it is so faction-ridden that any agreement
the returned exiles might make woul be of little use
in developing support for the regime
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Ne Win's civilian critics are likely to be moved
to c perate more closely against him once his talks
with the Communists become known. The implication
that the returned exiles are under Chinese tutelage
may also weaken Ne Win's standing with certain ele-
ments of the army which have become increasingly
apprehensive of his eftist tendencies, and are fearful
o Chinese influence.
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*Communist China--Test-Ban Treaty: Commu-
nist China's first formal reaction to the test-ban
treaty appears designed primarily to gain Peiping
advantage in the Sino-Soviet struggle by blackening
Moscow before the world Communist movement as
a willing accomplice of "imperialism!'
Peiping's statement of 31 July charges that the
Soviet government now pursues a policy of allying
itself with the US against China and against peace
and socialism--an about-face summed up as "capitu-
lation to US imperialism!' Peiping has, until now,
been content to make this charge by implication.
The statement repeats previous Chinese attacks
on the test ban as a "dirty fraud" designed to prevent
nonnuclear powers from obtaining modern weapons.
The Chinese declare it "unthinkable" for Peiping to
be a party to the agreement, under which they say
the US has everything to gain and nothing to lose.
Depicting themselves as champions of peace--
which they claim is threatened by the treaty--the
Chinese cynically offer alternate nuclear disarma-
ment proposals which Peiping probably hopes will
obstruct widespread adherence to the Moscow agree-
ment. These proposals include a call for a meeting
of all world government leaders to discuss the total
prohibition of nuclear weapons.
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of what Finland might nave to do by way of a balanc-
n una n wered.
Finland - West Germany: The Finnish Govern-
ment has agreed to permit the West German commer-
cial mission in Helsinki to open two branch offices.
The Finns anticipate an East German request for simi-
lar privileges, but intend to reject it on grounds that
no basis for reciprocity exists since Finland does not
maintain branch offices in East Germany as it does
in West Germany. The US Embassy notes that the
Soviet Union has not yet reacted and thus the question
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