CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: November 7, 1963
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7 November 1963
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. South Vietnam: Military consolidates control.
(Page. 1)
2. USSRo Workers in two cities apparently have
staged strikes against bread shortages. (Page 3)
4. USSR-Berlino Khrushchev's remarks on convoy
incidents. (Page 5)
5. Notes: France -Communist China;
Rumania- a~rugoslavia; Dahomey. (Page 6)
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
7 November 1963
DAILY BRIEF
*South Vietnam: The generals have created. new
machinery to formalize their control over the pro-
visional government headed by Premier Tho.
They have announced the formation of a 12-man
Military Executive Committee as the highest authority
in the country. In effect a supracabinet, it is headed
by General "Big" Minh, with Major Generals Don and.
Dinh as vice chairmen,
The generals also announced, at a press conference
yesterday the creation of a "council of sages," a con-
sultative body to be chosen by the military from na-
tionalist and, professional groups. The council is to
study and advise on questions dealing with the rights
and, aspirations of the citizenry and. problems of
transition to permanent government.
While expressing the hope that martial law and
press censorship will soon be lifted, the generals
are vague about the timing of general elections. A
spokesman indicated that elections would. be held
after the attainment of "a truly democratic system:'
There are already complaints by some Viet-
namese political elements that the government is
too technical and. nonrepresentative, that it lacks
political acumen, and will not long be able to hold
popular support, ~he first new political group to
declare its existence under the present government
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The new regime is continuing to purge Diem ap-
poin~ees, particularly in the police and intelligence
services. Replacements named to these services by
General Mai Huu Xuan, the new police director, are
largely drawn from old intelligence hands who worked
with the French and were Xuan's associates when he
held a similar post in the mid-fifties.
Some shake-up is also under way among the prov-
ince hiefs, many of whom are considered by the gen-
erals to be incompetent and c rrupt, or tainted. by
loyalty to the former regime.
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USSR-a Workers in two Soviet cities have appar-
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more compensation to purchase other foods, Dock-
workers in Odessa refused. to load butter on ships
bound for Cuba.
There are also rumors that Odessa dockworkers
struck earlier in October, and Soviet sources allege
that similar strikes and riots recently occurred. in
the Urals area.
No details are available on the regime?s reaction /
to these disturbances, but neither police nor army
units have been used. as yet, and it is unclear whether
or not the strikes have been settled
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A West German journalist considered, reliable
by his embassy has heard that strikes took place
last week in the Ukrainian cities of Krivoi Rog and
Odessa. In the former, workers sat down by their
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*USSR-Berlin: Khrushchev's remarks on 6 Novem-
ber to a group of American businessmen were designed
not only to obscure the fact that the US convoy refused
to comply with Soviet processing demands but also to
generate increased concern in the West that future in-
cidents on the Autobahn might lead to a dangerous mil-
itary confrontation.
In reiterating the claim made by Soviet check-
point authorities on 4 November that the USSR has the
right to establish convoy inspection procedures, Khru-
shchev is trying to maintain the impasse on this issue
iri order to heighten the urgency of negotiations on the
political level to remove this source of tension.
Khrushchev is again resorting to tactics he has
used repeatedly over the course of the Berlin conflict.
Iie is seeking to confront Western governments and
public opinion with what is intended to appear as a
choice between prospects of a new crisis carrying
risks of a military clash or an agreement to ne oti e
under conditions favorable to the USSR.
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NOTES
France -Communist Chinaa De Gra,ulle has no
intention of extending diplomatic cognition to Pei-
ping "at this time" He told, Ambassador Bohlen on
5 November that "sooner or later" some relation-
ships would have to be worked, out with Communist
China, but that when the time came for recognition,
?tthe US would. certainly be informed in advance."
Ambassador Bohlen believes that De Gta,ulle was talk-
ink about events quite far in the future.
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Rumania-Yugoslavia: Rumanian party First Sec-
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a brow review of Yugoslav-Rumanian re ataons. T e
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hard-line regime in Bucharest, which has regarded.
Belgrade's domestic policies with disfavor, has been
the most reluctant of the Soviet bloc states to im rove
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'Yugoslav construction of an ambitious power and. nav-
igation project on the Danube. A Yugoslav diplomat /
has implied that the primary purpose of the visit, ~
which Tito may return in "several months," will be
omey: ecen repor s rom a omey con-
tinue to point to Minister of State Justin Ahomadegbe,
who has labor as well as military support, as the
person who would probably head the new regim e now
being organized. The real strong man, however, may
be Dahomey's second-ranking military leader, Cap-
tain Alley, who is described by French officials as
tougher and more intelligent than the present provis-
ional government head,, Colonel Soglo. There are
now indications that ex-President Maga has lost some
su ort in his native northern re ion.
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 NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES
~he United States Intelligence Board., on 6 No-
vember 1963, approved the following national intelli-
gence estimates:
SNIE 36. 7-63: "The Situ
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"The Prospects for India"
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