CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: July 26, 1966
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CENTRAL
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
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CONTENTS
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2. Indonesia- New Indonesia cabinet is victory for
General Suharto. (Page 3)
3. Sudan: Ouster of Mahjoub may bring end to
paralyzing political infighting in government.
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4. UK: Defense establishment got off rather easily
in new economy measures. (Page 6)
5. USSR- Statistics for first half of 1966 indicate
no improvement in the economy over past years.
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6. Brazil: Bombings in Recife may signal terrorist
campaign to discredit government. (Page 8)
7. Notes: Congo (Kinshasa). (Page 10)
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Indonesia: The Indonesian cabinet announced
yesterday is, as had been anticipated, a victory for
army chief General Suharto.
As chairman of the presidium, Suharto will head
the cabinet. He also retains the defense portfolio. The
five ""first ministers" who make up the presidium in-
clude the triumvirate that directed the preceding cabinet
- - Suharto, Adam Malik, and the Sultan of Jogjakarta.
The other two are representatives of Indonesia's two
largest parties--Chalid of the Nahdatul Ulama (NU)
and Sanusi of the National Party.
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Three minor parties are also represented in the
cabinet--the Catholic Party, the Christian Party, and
the pro-army Association of Supporters for Indonesian
Independence. However, 12 of the 27 individuals in the
cabinet are military officers, and several ministers
appear to be technicians rather than political selections.
The inclusion of Chalid,
is Suharto's only major conces-
sion to President Sukarno, whose position thus has been
further eroded. As first minister for people's welfare,
Chalid will have under him the ministers of education,
religion, social affairs, public health, and manpower
mobilization. Only one of these, the minister of re-
ligion, is a member of the NU.
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During the cabinet negotiations Suharto and his
colleagues were determined that certain portfolios
should not go to politicians. These included the six
ministries grouped under economics and finance--
which have now gone to either military officers or
technicians--as well as the home affairs and informa-
tion ministries, both of which could be exploited during
the pre-election period. An army officer, Major Gen-
eral Basuki Rakmat, will hold the home affairs port-
folio. The information post has been given to Burhanud-
din Diah, a newspaper editor and diplomat who is close
to Adam Malik.
Malik, who aside from Suharto is probably the
ablest man in the cabinet, remains foreign minister
and retains his general supervisory position over in-
ternal political affairs.
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Sudan: The ouster on 25 July of Prime Minister
Mohammad Mahjoub may bring an end to the prolonged
political infighting which has paralyzed the Sudanese
Government.
. A nonconfidence vote was called in the Sudan's
Constituent Assembly by supporters of Sadiq al-
Mahdi, president of the dominant Umma party, who
is expected to form a new government. Sadiq had been
opposed in his bid for the premiership by the Imam al-
Hadi al-Mahdi, spiritual leader of the Ansar sect--
which forms the Umma's power base--and a strong
supporter of Mahjoub. A substantial majority of Umma
parliamentarians have long supported Sadiq's candidacy,
but Sadiq himself had heretofore been reluctant to risk
an open split within the party.
The Imam has called large numbers of his tribal
supporters into the Khartoum area, but it is not clear
that he intends to use them to block formation of the
new government. The National Union Party, the
Ummals coalition partner, is apparently backing Sadiq.
Security forces have been put on the alert to maintain
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UK: [Britain's defense establishment got off rather
easily in the economy measures announced last week
The economic package does not include any cuts
in ov r seas military deployment beyond those already
planned. According to Defense Minister Healey, it
calls for a reduction of $280 million in overseas spend-
ing, but the only new measures definitely decided upon
are a cut of $70 million from foreign aid programs, and
of $2. 8 million in the Foreign Office's overseas costs.
The rest is to be saved mainly by accelerating reduc-
tions already planned in British troops in Malaysia.
London also hopes to persuade West Germany to in-
crease its offset of the foreign exchange cost of the
British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)J
[London has long threatened to reduce the BAOR
unless Bonn increases its purchases of British mili-
tary goods, or agrees to direct payments to the UK
Treasury, to offset the BAOR's foreign exchange cost
of about $263 million a year. Negotiations on this
issue, however, are likely to drag on at least until a
British - West German commission, appointed last
May, reports on the problem in late September
(Nevertheless, London seems determined this
time to reduce this particular foreign exchange drain
and some cuts in BAOR seem almost certain, possibly
as part of a cut in over-al]. British troop strength.
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SELECTED SOVIET-ANNOUNCED FIGURES ON PLAN FULFILLMENT, 1965-66*
(Percentage Change from Corresponding Period of Previous Year)
Electric Powe
Coal
Crude Petroleum
Gas
Mineral Fertilizers
Plastics and Resins
Chemical Equipment
Oil Equipment
Agricultural Equipment
Fuels
Metallurgy
Chemicals
Machine Building and Metal-
working
,Lumber, wood-processinand
cellulose-paper
Construction materials
Light /
Consumer Goods
Food
Household Articles
1965 1966,
10 10
5 4
8 9
17 17
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16 14
17 12
14 0
3 3
11
11
10
7
7
7
8
9
9
14
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12
9
9
11
5
10
9
10
10
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8
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10
13
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
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CIA and other Western estimates.
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USSR: Soviet economic statistics for the first
half of 966 indicate no improvement over the unsatis-
factory performance of the. economy in recent years.
The figures seem to suggest a further increase in
the share of durables devoted to military and space pro-
grams. This is implied by a slight increase in the rate
of growth in the production of machinery with a con-
current decline in the rate of growth of principal civilian
machinery users.
A harbinger of continued difficulties is the virtual
stagnation of gross fixed investments in new plant and
equipment. State plan investment- -about 3/4 of the
total- -increased only two percent over the same period
last year. In recent years the Soviets have consistently
failed to achieve an increase in the annual rate of in-
vestment sufficient to maintain the desired rate of
growth for industrial output.
The figures on the growth of the energy industries
provide another indicator of increased difficulties. Only
petroleum production maintained last year's rate of
growth and is meeting the planned rate. The growth in,
electric power consumption was the lowest for any six-
month period in the past decade.
On the basis of the statistics, the consumer made
out little better than last year. Some progress does
appear, however, in the program to remedy the tradi-
tional neglect of agriculture.
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*Brazil: Yesterday's bombing incidents in Recife
may have inaugurated a wave of terrorism designed to
discredit the Castello Branco government and disrupt
this fall's national elections.
At least three persons were killed and several
injured in three separate bomb explosions in Recife.
In what appeared to have been an assassination attempt,
a powerful blast was set off at the Recife airport just
as the government-backed presidential candidate,
retired marshal Arturo Costa e Silva, was scheduled
to arrive. Costa e Silva was uninjured, however, since
his aircraft had been delayed and he was forced to
travel by car.
The perpetrators of the incidents have not yet
been apprehended, although local security forces have
begun a sweep of known Communists in the area. The
government can be expected to take firm measures
against known oppositionists. The bombings took place
at a time when pre- election tensions have begun to
climb.
The legislatures of half of Brazil's 22 states will
elect new governors on 3 September, Congress will
choose the new president on 3 October, and direct elec-
tions for the new federal congress are slated to be held
on 15 November. Costa e Silva is the sole candidate
for the presidency. The Brazilian Democratic Move-
ment--the only legally recognized opposition party--
may not name presidential or gubernatorial candidates,
since it believes that the regime is using arbitrary and
undemocratic methods to ensure the victory of the gov-
ernment party's candidates.
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As the election dates approach, further incidents,
including attacks against US installations and property,
can be expected. The target of one of the Recife blasts
was a USIS office. Local security forces are believed
capable of preventing such terrorism from becoming a
serious threat to governmental stability, however.
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* Because of the shortage of time for preparation of this item, the analytic
interpretation presented here has been produced by the Central Intelligence
Agency without the participation of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State or of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense.
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Congo (Kinshasa): The situation is calm in
Kisangani (Stanleyville), and the mutiny of Katangese
troops and a few mercenaries has not spread to other
parts of the country. Premier Mulamba, however, is
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with the mutineers. American citizens have been
evacuated from Kisangani.
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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
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U.S. Rep., Military Committee and Standing Group, NATO
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
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