CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: December 4, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
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4 December 1965
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EST)
The Situation in South Vietnam: Viet Cong terror-
ists last night bombed an Amerii-c-aUn enlisted men's billet
in Saigon after first attacking US and Vietnamese guards
with machine guns. Casualties in the bombing stand at
one US killed and 72 injured; six Vietnamese were killed
and 64 injured.
The charge, estimated as 200 to 250 pounds of plas-
tic explosive hauled in a panel truck2 damaged the lower
floors of the building,, the Hotel Metropole. A Claymore
mine, apparently timed to explode during rescue efforts'.
failed to detonate.
An apparently related attempt against another US
billet was thwarted when a terrorist was shot by guards
before he could throw an explosive device.
Hanoi radio promptly reported the attempt against
the Metropole Hotel, attributing the bombing to "Saigon
Liberation Armed Forces:'
A large allied operation initiated on 21 November
to provide security for rice harvesting in Binh Tuy Prov-
ince is proceeding on schedule. Although there has
been no large-scale fighting., allied forces have killed
14 Viet Cong,, captured 154., detained 77 suspects, and
seized a quantity of supplies, including 45 tons of rice.
The South Vietnamese Government's Chieu Hoi
("Open Arms") Program- -appealing to the Viet Cong
to come over voluntarily to the government side--has
been attracting an increasing number of military de-
fectors. During the two-week period from 13-27 No-
vember., 900 enemy troops surrendered at government
Chieu Hoi centers.
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During most of 1964 and early 1965, the defection
rate was approximately 1. 5 per thousand military mem-
bers of the Viet Cong; between June and October of this
year, the rate increased to five defectors per thousand.
Last month, the rate was 7. 5 per thousand. Although de-
fections are still relatively few and are due to a variety
of factors, the increased rate appears to substantiate re-
ports of lowered morale within Viet Cong ranks.
Communist Political Developments: Soviet press
treatment of British Foreign Secretary Stewart's Mos-
cow TV address has been scant and reportorial. Mos-
cow has pointedly avoided Stewart's reference to the
need to convene a conference on Vietnam. Moscow.TASS
international service noted merely that he stressed the
duty of Britain and the USSR "to help terminate the con-
flict." Moscow domestic service versions of the speech
have omitted all mention of Vietnam.
In a subsequent news conference, Stewart declared
that the Russians continue to maintain that they have no
authority to negotiate for the North Vietnamese Govern-
me nt.
In addition, Soviet UN Ambassador Federenko's
forthright public declaration of support for Hanoi in a
3 December speech indicates that Moscow has no in-
tention of altering its fundamental commitment to the
North Vietnamese regime.
Peking renewed its verbal encouragement to the
Vietnamese to continue the war against the US in a
People's Daily commentary on 3 December. According
to Peking, the "signal victories" of the Viet Cong in
the past two months "fully demonstrate the might of
people's war" Viet Cong courage was called a "spirit-
ual atom bomb" which would enable the Vietnamese to
destroy any number of troops and modern weapons the
US might commit to the war. The article strongly im-
plies that the Vietnamese can defeat the US on their
own and omits any reference to a possible despatch of
Chinese troops to Vietnam.
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Indonesia: There has been no significant change
in the situation. here are some indications that
Sukarno plans to make an important announcement
in the next few days, possibly relating to a ban on 0
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to be formulating plans for continued political activity
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USSR-UK: Soviet leaders indicated no change
in their standard foreign policy positions during
talks with British Foreign Secretary Stewart this
past week. According to a preliminary British ac-
count given to US Embassy officials in Moscow,
Gromyko, Mikoyan, and Kosygin reiterated the usual
arguments on the issues of a comprehensive nuclear
test ban, nuclear-free zones, NATO, a multilateral
force, and Vietnam. The Soviets were, however,
personally cordial during the discussions, and a
consular convention between the two countries was
signed]
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