CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 9, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
RELATING TO NATIONAL SECURITY
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STATE review(s) completed.
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CONTENTS
1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
20 USSR: Wheat purchasing from abroad continues,
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Ecuador; Panama. (Page 4)
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SOUTH VIETNAM
CURRENT SITUATION
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4,30 AW.EDT)
Political Developments in South Vietnam: Com-
munist- initiated terrorist incidents continue to punc-
tuate the pre-election atmosphere.
At least nine Vietnamese deaths in the delta
yesterday were attributed to the stepped-up enemy
campaign to disrupt Sunday's elections for a con-
stitution- drafting body. One of the dead was a vil-
lage chief and another was a security employee.
Some four explosions occurred in Saigon, although
no deaths resulted.
As planned, some 200 Buddhist clerics in Sai-
gon began a 72-hour hunger strike yesterday in
sympathy with their fasting popular leader, the
venerable Tri Quang, and in protest against the
national elections. The strike has so far aroused
only mild public interest,
Military Developments in South Vietnam: On-
going allied operations reported only light contact
during the past 24 hours. South Vietnamese military
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activity is expected to be at a low ebb in the next few
days as regular and paramilitary units are assigned
to security duties in anticipation of Viet Cong attempts
to terrorize voters and election polling places.
Two Viet Cong attacks, at least one of which was
in company strength, occurred on 8 September in
Binh Dinh Province in the central coastal area against
elements of two South Vietnamese Army regiments.
In one of the attacks, a regimental outpost was tem-
porarily overrun, with losses of 16 government
troops killed and 15 wounded, A reaction force in
the second attack made contact with an estimated
two enemy battalions, with fighting continuing at
last reports.
(See Map)
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USSR: I
the USSR is seeking to buy another million tons of wheat
from France.
The USSR purchased about one million tons of
French wheat earlier this year for delivery this fall.
Moscow has just completed negotiations for the ship-
ment through June 1967 of one third of the nine million
tons of wheat it agreed to buy under a 3-year pact signed
with Canada in June. There are also reports that the
USSR has inquired about the availability of Argentine
wheat.
High-ranking Soviet officials have indicated that
grain imports will continue until the agricultural re-
form announced in 1965 has become fully effective.
Continuing purchases in an above-average crop year
reflect this policy. The 1966 harvest, now 90 percent
complete, will exceed the average annual harvest of the
past five years.
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involve Israeli fatalities, could touch off another Israeli
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Israel-Syria: Tension along the Israeli-Syrian bor-
der has again increased following a mining incident on
6 September and an Israeli encounter with infiltrators
from Syria on the 8th. Syrian Chief of Staff Suwaydani
expressed his regret for the 6 September incident to UN
officials and has stated his determination to find the
perpetrators. Local commanders along the border may
be aiding infiltrators in direct violation of orders from
Damascus. Additional incidents, especially if they should
retaliatory strike against Syria.
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Somali Republic. Mogadiscio has sent an initial
gro6p- of 2-0 ethnic Somalis from northeastern Kenya to
the USSR for six months of guerrilla training. Until
now, guerrillas have been trained by the Somali Army
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Mogadiscio wants to improve their ellicienEy-7. Tne
USSR is equipping and training the Somali Army, but
this is the first instance of: a Soviet involvement in
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Somali guerrilla opera ions,
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Ecuador: Labor unrest, financial problems, and
the resignation of key officials have brought govern-
ment stability into question. The chief of the national
police told a US official on 2 September that interim
President Yerovi is "completely discouraged" and wants
to resign. The US Embassy has no other evidence that
Yerovi plans to step down, but the government's fiscal
situation and morale have deteriorated. Yerovi has
threatened to resign a number of times in the past.
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Panama: President Robles is optimistic about the
round of canal treaty negotiations which has been in
progress since July and hopes to convene a special
session of the National Assembly in February or March
of next year to take up ratification. Robles hopes to
complete ratification before the canal issue becomes
enmeshed in the campaigning for the 1968 election. He
told a meeting of progovernment deputies on 6 September
that two former opponents in the assembly had agreed
to vote with the government, boosting the administra-
tion's chances to obtain the two-thirds majority neces-
sarv overcome Arnulfo Arias' Panamenista bloc.
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE
The United States Intelligence Board on 8 Septem-
ber 1966 approved the following national intelligence
estimate:
NIE 30-1-66, "The Outlook for South
Arabia"' I
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