CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: March 8, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
RELATING TO NATIONAL SECURITY
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8 March 1966
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
2. Guatemala: Government may be moving to pad O%/
election results. (Page 2)
3. Ecuador: Military junta's reforms denounced by F?R
political leaders. (Page 3)
4. Notes: Syria; Sudan; Haiti; Austria. (Page 4)
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8 March 1966
`Vietnam : (Information as of 4:30 AM EST)
The Military Situation in South Vietnam : The
intense fighting reported in several major allied opera-
tions over the weekend has slackened during the past
24 hours.
Allied forces conducting Operation UTAH/LIEN
KET 26 northwest of Quang Ngai city have reported
little contact since 6 March with the remainder of an
estimated regiment of enemy troops. The operation,
initiated on 4 March, has now resulted in cumulative
enemy losses of 586 killed and five captured; allied
casualties during this period are 113 killed (83 US) and
324 wounded (205 US).
SILVER CITY, a large search-and-destroy opera-
tion, was initiated last night in the Viet Cong "War Zone
D" stronghold some 30 to 40 miles north of Saigon. A
combined US- Australian- ARVN force, including seven
battalions and an airborne brigade, is involved in the
operation which is scheduled to last several days.
US forces continued their offensive on the fringe
of "War Zone D" near the eastern border of Binh Duong
Province yesterday, when B-52 Stratofortresses bombed
a suspected Viet Cong troop location and supply area.
US troops sweeping a nearby area reported no opposi-
tion, although a major battle with elements of an enemy
regiment in this vicinity on 4 and 5 March resulted in
nearly 200 Viet Cong killed.
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*Guatemala: (Information as of 4:30 AM EST)
The electoral tribunal suspended announcing
voting results yesterday in a move that may fore-
shadow the padding of rural returns in favor of the
government-backed Institutional Democratic Party
(PID).
As of late yesterday, the Revolutionary Party's
Mendez led with 153, 266 to 88, 744 votes for Aguilar
of the PID. Ponciano of the National Liberation Move-
ment had 84, 656 votes. However, at this point with
approximately half of the vote counted, no candidate "seems
likely to win an absolute majority. In order to win, one
party must achieve over 50 percent of the vote; if not,
the election falls to the newly elected congress after it
meets on 5 May.
Mendez Eapparently~J was drawing the upcountry
vote that was predicte to favor the PID--at which time
the government apparently felt it wise to suspend the
counting.
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Ecuador: The military junta has announced
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constiFu-t-i`o",Tj'1a1 reforms which have been denounce.
by Ecuador's political leaders2 and opposition in-
creases.
Along with such expected provisions as a ban
on re-election of presidents and congressmen, the
decree apparently bypasses the courts--and their
unwillingness to prosecute subversives--by making
insurgents subject to military justice. The decree
also postpones general elections from 5 June to
3 July to allow more time for voter registration.
A new grouping has been formed by leading
politicians who, according to the US country team,
have a "blind and almost fanatical devotion" to the
idea of getting the government out of power. The
poli ticians have unanimously reasserted their per-
sistent demand for a constituent assembly to super-
vise the transition to constitutional government.
Political leaders who had previously indicated
they would probably participate in the planned gen-
eral elections now vow they will not. They may
even try to bring the demagogic ex-President Velasco
Ibarra back from exile.
Although military unity- -on which stability
ultimately rests--appears intact at the moment,,
the US ambassador believes that "the government
could be upset with little warning. 11 In this event,
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the junta would probably be r I li-
tary -government.
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NOTES
Syria: jSome violence may accompany today's
celebration in Damascus of three years of Baathist
rule in Syria. Festivities have apparently been can-
celed in Aleppo, where there is uncertainty over army
loyalty to the Baathist military junta which took over
two weeks ago. Disgruntled army units- -including
key units on the Israeli border--might take advantage
of any disorders to attempt a countercoup.
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Sudan: The inept coalition regime in Khartoum
is still beset by differences among its leaders, de-
teriorating finances, and rebellion in the Sudan's southern
provinces. The situation is giving rise to speculation
that a faction in the army- -three-fourths of which is
bogged down in an apparently hopeless campaign to
crush the Negro rebels--might try to take over the gov-
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rent conditions and could eventually fe 1 compelled to
Haiti: T e US Embassy reports that Haitian
President Duvalier is going through a period of increas-
ing apprehension over the stability of his regime. His
normal state of suspicion has been reinforced by the
recent coups in Africa, exile plotting, a deteriorating
economic situation, and his inability to obtain significant
US aid. Despite this uneasy political situation, there
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anti-Duvalier groups are presently willing or sufficiently
o nized to attempt to overthrow the dictator
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Austria: Despite the clear majority won by the
centrist People's Party in the parliamentary elections
on 6 March, Chancellor Klaus has restated his promise
to re-establish his party's 21-year-old coalition with
the Socialists. Negotiations are likely to be lengthy,
since there are those in the People's Party who advo-
cate driving a hard bargain. Socialist election losses
were a blow to Austria's new Communist Party secre-
tary general, who had switched from his party's tra-
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