CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: April 7, 1966
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CENTRAL
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
RELATING TO NATIONAL SECURITY
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7 April 1966
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
2. Communist China: Mao may be incapacitated but
still mentally alert. (Page 4)
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4. France: New nuclear reactor increases both
electric power and plutonium production. (Page 6)
7. Ecuador: Provisional President's ability to
maintain internal security in doubt. (Page 9)
8. Notes: I Zambia; 25
Dominican Republic; Haiti. (Page 10)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EST)
)olitical Developments in South Vietnam: South
Vietnamese Marines are evidently still prepared to
enter the city of Da Nang, but a government show of
force may await new political moves
FIMilitary Security Service chief Colonel Loan,
pre ntly designated to command the Saigon units now
at Da Nang air base, told
L that he had authority to move when conditions
seemed "ripe, " but that the military phase of the plan
to reassert control over Da Nang might be postponed
"a few days. " Loan also stated that Premier Ky was
considering new political steps to end the crisis, and
that these would probably include further concessions
to the Buddhists.
Earlier in the day at Da Nang, Loan had appeared
in a ighly emotional state, asserting that the marines
must move within 24 hours to be successful and that
some unit commanders might move even without orders.
Loan had also stated that Deputy Premier Co was a
virtual hostage of I Corps commander Chuan in Da Nang,
although both Co and Chuan have made public statements
that the situation is quieting and that they are working
toward a peaceful settlement;,
In Saigon yesterday, the government convened a
consultative session of some 30 political and religious
leaders to prepare for a national political convention.
The session was boycotted by Buddhist Institute leaders,
whose spokesmen have variously declared in the past few
days that the political convention is a step backward, and
that the government has promised an elected national as-
sembly within five months.
Ithere was a general
n ensus to convene the political convention next week
and to set up a constituent body, half appointed and half
drawn from provincial and municipal councils.
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The Military Situation in South Vietnam- Two
battalions of the US 25th Infantry Division have ter-
minated the nine-day search-and-destroy Operation
CIRCLE PINES northwest of Saigon in Hau Nghia
Province. Results were mixed. One hundred and
fifty-seven Viet Cong were killed and eight captured,
compared to US casualties of 32 killed and 195 wounded.
In addition, 14 US armored personnel carriers, 12
tanks, and two helicopters received varying degrees
of damage from enemy ground fire and mines.
Battalion-strength US Marine task force elements
conducting Operation ORANGE in Quang Nam Province
have uncovered a Viet Cong river harbor with exten-
sive caves and fortifications 20 miles southwest of
Da Nang. Light to sporadic contact has been reported
during the past 24 hours, bringing cumulative Commu-
nist losses in the seven-day ground sweep to 54 killed,
as against marine casualties of 18 killed and 87 wounded.
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According to information from MACV, the current
political unrest has had a retarding effect on coordinated
US/ARVN operations, but no effect on unilateral opera-
tions by US or other free world forces. The extent to
which. ARVN military operations are being hampered is
in direct proportion to the degree of political unrest in
any given area, with the major impact in I Corps. How-
ever, nearly all ARVN units are being affected to some
extent by the increased demands of security and riot con-
trol duty, which is detracting from offensive operations.
Logistical activities particularly construction, port opera-
tions, and POL distribution have been seriously disrupted
in the major centers of political agitation.
Communist Political Developments: Vietnamese Com-
munist propaganda is increasing its efforts to turn the
present political unrest in South Vietnam into a movement
directed chiefly against the American presence there. In
its second major statement in two days, the Liberation
Press on 6 April called for an increased struggle against
the "US imperialists, " claiming that this was the major
objective of both the Liberation Front and the urban strug-
gle movement. The statement called for united action of
all the antigovernment groups with the Liberation Front to
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Hanoi propaganda has also echoed the theme of an
identity of p7vrpose between the struggle of the liberation
forces and the present political movement in the cities.
Recent articles in the party daily have claimed that the
flacute contradiction" between the Americans and. the as-
pirations of the South Vietnamese people was the cause of
the prpsent struggle, r-
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Communist China: Indications continue to be re-
ceived that Mao Tse-tung- -whose activities have now
gone unreported for 19 weeks--may be incapacitated
but is still mentally alert.
On 26 March, a Chinese Government spokesman,
answering a foreign newsman's question, asserted
that "Chairman Mao is in very good health," and
called stories to the contrary "vicious fabrications. "
His statement was not published in China. On 29
March, a Hong Kong Communist newspaper reprinted
a photograph of a smiling, healthy Mao from a 25
March Canton party daily. There was no indication
when or where the picture was taken, an unusual cir-
cumstance that only increases doubts about Mao's
condition.
Mao is probably still able to function. Otherwise
his deputy, Liu Shao-chi, almost certainly would not
have left the country. Mao has been out of Peking
since mid-October and probably is in east or central
China where he has often gone for winter rest cures
in the past.
Several ordinarily active top leaders have been
out of sight for long periods during the past four
months--possibly at Mao's side to keep him informed
and to carry out his decisions. Among these are
Chief of Staff Lo Jui.-ching, and Yang Shang-kun,
Mao's personal link with the party secretariat, who
dropped out of sight simultaneously with Mao l p in
November.
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France: [The last of three nuclear reactors at
Chinon has begun operating, increasing French capac-
ity for both electric power output and plutonium pro-
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[The three Chinon reactors are intended primarily
for electric power production. By 1967, when all
three should be operating at full capacity, they could
generate up to 750 megawatts of electric power, about
four percent of estimated French consumption at that
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Ecuador: The Country Team believes that be-
cause of provisional President Yerovils "inexperience
and irresolution" the government's capacity to main-
tain. internal security is being impaired.
The national police are handicapped by lack of
financial support from the government. In additionp
they will be operating under a new commander.
During the recent administrative chaos, an ex-
tremist temporarily took possession of the offices of
the Directorate General of Security--the political po-
lice--dnd delivered to Communist-led students data
on informants used by the former government. The
expected intimidation of these persons will make more
difficult the penetration of organizations that the gov-
ernment needs to watch.
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Zambia-. Wildcat strikes by African workers are
threatening to disrupt Zambia's vital coppermining in-
dustry. The mine workers have the sympathy of most
Zambian Africans- -including some members of Presi-
dent Kaunda!s cabinet--in their protests against the
disparities between white and African wage rates in the
mines. The government is establishing a commission
of inquiry which it hopes will get the miners back to
work and obviate the need for more drastic action to
end the strikes.
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Dominican Republic: $ An alliance between Joaquin
Balaguer and Rafael. BonnOlly, both unofficial presi-
dential candidates in the election scheduled for 1 June,
may be in the offing. In the past Balaguer has con-
fidently predicted that his Reformist Party could defeat
Juan Bosch's Dominican Revolutionary Party without
coming to terms with Bonnelly's newly formed Na-
tional Integration Movement. However
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Balaguer is quietly surveying e pos-
sibilities of an alignment between these two mutually
antagonistic groups. *For his part, Bonnelly now also
reportedly agrees that his party will have to form a
coalition with Balaguer in order to defeat Bosch.
Haiti: LPIfesident Duvalier apparently has been
taking steps to counter suspected antigovernment plot-
ting. Measures have included a crackdown: on the mili-
tary and on the dreaded secret police, the "ton ton
macou.tes." There are unconfirmed reports that a
number of officers, soldiers, and secret police have
recently been executed. In the past, Duvalier has
often ordered indiscriminate executions when he felt
his position was threatened.
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice 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 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 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 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
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Administrator
The Atomic Energy Commission
The Chairman
The National Security Agency
The Director
The United States Information Agency
The Director
The National Indications Center
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