CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 7, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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1. Venezuela- Betancourt advocates strong hemis-
.pheric measures against Castro. (Page 1)
4. Bolivia: President Paz seeks to neutralize extreme
leftist opposition in ruling party. (Page 4)
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Venezuela: President Betancourt is advocating
strong hemispheric measures to curtail Castro's
subversive activities in Latin America.
Betancourt told US Ambassador Stewart that a
"blockade" limited to ships outbound from Cuba for
Latin American countries would prevent the delivery
of arms to insurgents in Venezuela. Although he
reiterated his strong opposition to the presence of
foreign military units in Venezuela, he stated that
foreign vessels participating in the blockade could
pursue suspected arms carriers into Venezuelan
waters.
Betancourt also favors a break in diplomatic
relations with Cuba by those Latin American nations
still maintaining them, and wants measures which
will hold economic relations and. other communica-
tion,q with a to a minimum.
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Bolivia: President Victor Paz Estenssoro is re-
vamping his cabinet as part of a systematic campaign
to neutralize extreme leftist opposition in the ruling
MNR party.
The cabinet presented. its collective resignations
on 5 December, probably at Paz' direction. The for-
eign minister has advised, the US Embassy in La Paz
that the lines of combat have become sharply drawn
between Paz and his major political rival, Vice Pres-
ident Juan Lechin. He said the President could. no
longer tolerate Lechin's supporters in his cabinet.
Lechin, head, of the pro- Communist wing of the
MNR, is challenging Paz for control of the party in
an effort to be named as its presidential candidate
for the elections of 1964.
In addition to removing those cabinet members
with close ties to Lechin, Paz also may replace one
or more key ministers, who recently have come under
Lechin's criticism, in an effort to eliminate one pre--
text for the vice president's attacks against govern-
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-Ma sia: enior officers he British Far
East Command believe there is increasing likelihood
of major military action between UK and Indonesian
forces. Strengthening of Malaysian-UK defenses is
under way. A medium V-bomber unit of about eight
aircraft is being sent to Singapore to provide a long-
range, all-weather capability which the 15 Ca Berra
light bombers already in the area do not have
are inclined to blam
under Colonel Siho.
Laos: Distrust among the various factions in
Vientiane has sharpened in the wake of Thursday's
slaying of Colonel Leuang, chief of neutralist intel-
ligence in the city. Responsibility for the killing has
not been fixed, but neutralist leaders in the capital
die right-wing security forces
The shooting also has revived
rumors that right-wing military elements connected.
with former Premier Phoui Sa ikone may soon try
to take over control in Vientianeff_J
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