CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
2. Indonesia: Political maneuvering to focus on up-
coming trials of plotters. (Page 4)
3. Burma: Ethnic and Communist insurgent b~.nds in-
creasingly bold and aggressive. (Page 5)
4. Zambia-UK-Rhodesia: Kaunda taking more
measured approach to total boycott of Rhodesian
goods and services. (Page 6)
5. Ethiopia: New expressions of discontent among
educated elite. (Page 7)
7. Notes: Greece; Peru;
USSR (Page 10)
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
29 January 1966
*Vietnam : (Information as of 4:30 AM EST)
The Military _Situation in South Vietnam : Several
major allied operations are current y un er way in
areas suspected of harboring large enemy troop con-
centrations,
US Marine and South Vietnamese battalions have
begun Operation DOUBLE EAGLE, a search-and-
destroy effort south of the provincial capital of Quang
Ngai. Meanwhile, Operation MASHER, involving a
record number of allied troops, is continuing in the
northeastern sector of adjacent Binh Dinh Province.
According to reports from US military officials in
Saigon, there may be four or five Communist regi-
ments in the area of northern Binh Dinh and southern
Quang Ngai.
Elements of the US 1st Cavalry Division and a
South Vietnamese airborne battalion are engaged in
heavy fighting with three Viet Cong battalions. Twenty-
one of 38 helicopters receiving hits have been grounded.
Cumulative allied casualties thus far in Operation
MASHER are 25 killed (22 US) and 46 wounded (26 US).
Viet Cong casualties are 137 killed (body count), 23 cap-
tured, and 197 suspects detained.
Elements of the US 101st Airborne Division pro-
viding security for rice harvesting in Phu Yen Prov-
ince were reported to be heavily engaged by enemy
forces .yesterday. Casualty- reports have not yet been
received.
Farther south, near the border of Bien Hoa and
Phuoc Tuy provinces, US forces conducting Operation
MALLET have not established contact with enemy
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forces thus far. Two Viet Cong regiments are esti-
mated to be in the area.
Widely dispersed Viet Cong activity continues to
~' be conducted by small enemy units, with no large-
] scale attacks reported since the Tet cease-fire. On
j. 27 January, South Vietnamese defenders of an outpost
in Kien Phong Province successfully repulsed an
enemy attack, killing six Viet Cong. Government
losses were two lolled and seven wounded.
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Political Developments in Nort V etna ~I
on 28 January broadcast a series of answers by North
Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong to questions put
j to him by US visitors Lynd, Hayden, and Aptheker.
j . Dong took a particularly tough line on Vietnamese Com-
mu.nist peace terms and placed heavy emphasis on the
role of the Liberation Front. He made it clear that
any coalition government in South Vietnam must be "in
j accordance" with the Front?s program.
The same general line was taken by Ho Chi Minh
on 24 January in an open letter to the heads of gov-
ernments "interested in the Vietnamese situation."
The letter, broadcast by Hanoi, was apparently in-
tended as a rebuttal to the US peace initiative. He as-
serted that the US must recognize the Liberation Front
a.s the "sole genuine representative of the people of
" He also said that the US must "en-
South Vietnam
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gage in negotiations with it." This is one of the most
straightforward public assertions by a North Vietnam-
ese leader that the US must deal directly with the Front
in any negotiations.
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Military Developments in North Vietnam: Con-
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trail improvements have been noted. A possible in-
su~gent camp was also located in Laos near the
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 Indonesian Political maneuvering may focus
.next on the upcoming trials of those who participated
in the coup attempt of 30 September,
Sukarno wishes to limit the trials to a very
few coup leaders. The army wants to broaden them
to include large numbers of Communist Party (PKI)
members. Crmy leaders hope that out of the trials
they may obtain a judicial decision which can be used
to ensure indefinite suppression of the party. Sukarno
continues to put off their demands for a ban on the
party
5o far only two persons are scheduled for trial
by public military tribunal in mid~February. One is
Coloa~el Untung, titular leader of the coup, and the
other is PKI politburo member Njono. The army
has a x ed full confessions from both of
them,
Sukarno and Foreign Minister Subandrio evi-
dently are still backing the organization of the Sukarno
From? which they launched two weeks ago as a means
of recovering political strength. So far, it appears
to have attracted little significant support
The US Embassy in Djakarta notes that the
army's response to the Front-proclaiming loyalty
to the President on the one hand .while disapproving
the Front on the other??may have seriously obstructed
this latest Sukarno-Subandrio ploy. The embassy
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the effect of f~itrther reducing the arm 's freedom of
action a ainst the. President.
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? bands are becoming increasingly bold and aggressive
in many parts of Burma
~lthough insurgency, endemic in Burma since
World War II, normally mounts at the end of the south-
west monsoon season in October, an unusually high
level of activity appears to have developed over the
past three- months. Rebels a,re impeding the govern-
m ent~ s dismal commodity distribution efforts, causing
uncertainty among farmers both by intimidation and
by spreading rumors about the government, and at-
tacking transportation and communications arteries
In date December Communist-dominated Na-
tion Democratic United Front rebels raided grail--
way station and police post about 40 miles north of
Pegu on the Rangoon-Mandalay railway. In one of the
more recent incidents unidentified insurgents re-
portedly seized two armories, one of which was lo-
cated at a police station in Rangoon.
CActive ethnic insurgents include some 4, 500
Karens, 4, 500 Kachins, and possibly 5, 000 Shans.
The most serious threat, however, is posed by some
1, 000 hard-core activists df the Burma Communist
Party, known as the White Flags and having links
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 Ethiopia: The recent military takeover in
Nigeria appears o have encouraged new expressions
of discontent among Ethiopia's educated elite
~In a talk this week with the US ambassador,
the minister of defense, General Merid, described
the political situation in Ethiopia as "'intolerable.'"
He stated that if the Emperor did .not make changes
in the political structure he would "sooner or later
have his throat cut. "~
Merid said that Haile Selassie was complete y
out of touch with internal opinion and that the young
educated elite in the administration and military
were frustrated, dissatisfied, and increasingly rest-
less. He said i~vhat occurred in Nigeria would be a
"picnic'" compared to the carnage in Ethiopia that
would result from the Emperor's continued immo-
bilism~
The ambassador comments that Merid was
"`'deadly earnest. " In a later conversation, General
Iyasu, chief of staff of the armed farces, echoed
Merid's views
either officer indicated knowledge of any
speci is plotting within the army, or that they them-
selves planned any action. Nevertheless, their
views reflect a new level of concern in military and
civilian circles that the Emperor's preoccupation
with pramoting his own international ima a is detri-
mentalt`o internal development,
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