CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A007400250001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 20, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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20 December 1963
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. Cuba: The current strength of the Cuban Army
may be 100,000. (Page 1)
2. Spain-Cuba: A deal exchanging Spanish ships
for Cuban sugar may be in the works. (Page 2)
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Cuba:
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the strength of the Cuban Army was
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It may
include both regular army and reserve personnel on
active duty. Frequent call-ups of reserve personnel
for temporary duty cause significant fluctuations in
the size of the Cuban ground forces.
US estimates have placed the strength of the Cuban
standing army at about 75,000.
Under the new compulsory service law, all males
between 17 and 45 are subject to three years of mili-
tary service. Implementation of this law will probably
lead to some increase in the size of the standing army.
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Spain-Cuba: A deal providing for the exchange
of. Spanish ships for Cuban sugar may be in the mak-
ing.
Spanish shipbuilders have undertaken to construct
11100. naval units" for Cuba which are to be paid for
with sugar. the deal may
come up for consideration at the cabinet level today.
*However, the US Embassy in Madrid suspects
the original press report may have been inspired by
the Spanish Government to impress the US with Ma-
drid's possibilities for trade with Cuba. The Spanish
shipbuilding director said that
the Cubans have approached a private company on the
construction of ships but that limited facilities would
permit the building of no more than five or six vessels.
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Laos: Communists appear to be moving to coun-
ter some of the recent rightist advances in central
Laos. On 16 December a force reportedly consisting
of one battalion of North Vietnamese troops recaptured
the key road junction at Lak Sao, a position which
right-wing forces had taken early this month. The
Communists, however, still do not appear to want to
press a counteroffensive to the point of jeopardizing
chances for the talks that Pathet Lao leader Souphan-
nouvong recently indicated he wants with Premier
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*Brazil: The resignation last night of Finance Min-
ister Carvalho Pinto may open the way for greater
leftist participation in President Goulart's cabinet.
Although foreign trade coordinator Ney Galvao. has
reportedly been named temporary finance minister,
Goulart has been under heavy pressure from the ex-
treme left to replace Pinto, a political moderate, with
someone such as Leonel Brizola, the President's pro-
Castro brother-in-law. This pressure is expected to
reach a peak today t a lar a leftist rally to be held
in Rio de Janeiro.
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Ivory Coast: President Houphouet-Boigny has
apparently again moved to reduce the influence of a
possible rival. Recent arrests and deportations
have included associates of ambitious National Assem-
bly President Phillipe Yace, who had been emerging
in recent months as the number two man in the Hou-
phouet regime. Yace is in charge of the party militia,
however, and he might react by tr in to use it to
brio off a palace cou
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THE 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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