CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 2, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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2 December 1966
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
1. Vietnam ; Current situation report. (Page 1)
2. Communist China: Rival Red Guard move-
ments developing. (Page 3)
3. Nigeria: Gowon, and Ojukwu draw further
apart. (Page 4)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:00 AM EST)
The Military Situation in South Vietnam: Heavy
fighting 'erupted yesterday between a Communist force
of undetermined strength and elements of the US 1st
Air Cavalry Division conducting Operation THAYER
II in northeastern Binh Dinh Province.
Although contact was broken at darkness after
nearly five hours of sustained combat, US forces
appear to have effectively surrounded the enemy unit
in an area approximately 40 miles north-northwest
of Qui Nhon.
According to preliminary casualty reports, 69
Viet Cong have thus far been killed, as against Ameri-
can losses of five killed and 11 wounded. (Map)
South Vietnam and Cambodia: Cambodia is ap-
parently considering several steps to counter South
Vietnam's latest attempt to control shipping on the
Mekong River--a regulation, enforced since mid-No-
vember, that ships bound for Cambodia travel in
convoy.
Cambodian
may ask the United Nations' Mekong
Committee to bring pressure on Saigon to rescind the
ruling. The officials held out the possibility that Cam-
bodia may be forced to withdraw from the Mekong
Committee unless normal ship movements on the river
are resumed.
Cambodia has already experienced some eco-
nomic dislocation stemming from delays involved in the
convoy system-F serious petroleum
shortages are already being felt in the capital.
(continued)
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The South Vietnamese Navy is presenting a US re-
quest to the ruling Directorate asking relaxation of
restrictions on POL deliveries to Phnom Penh. This
could ease the
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Communist China: The unstable situation in the
leadership has apparently resulted in the creation of
rival Red Guard organizations in Peking and elsewhere.
The militant Red Guard "Revolution Rebel" head-
quarters in Peking announced on 22 November that it
intended to ransack the headquarters of its main rival,
which it called a "royalist" group that was trying to
shield party committees.
The "Rebel" headquarters is believed to have di-
rected the goon squads that for the past six weeks have
been invading and ransacking government institutions
and factories. The earliest reference to this group
appears in an undated wall poster, just available,
which describes its direction of a force of 2,000 Red
Guards who on 21 October invaded an agricultural in-
stitute, seized files, and beat up several people.
Although People's Daily on 10 November ordered
the Red Guards not to interfere with factory produc-
tion, a newspaper published by the "Rebel" head-
quarters revealed in late November that clashes were
still occurring, especially in factories. According to
an account of a 15-hour battle on 16 November at the
large Peking First Machine Tool Plant, in which 60
people reportedly were injured, factory loudspeakers
exhorted workers to "shoot to kill; these students are
gangsters. " The "Rebel" newspaper has tried to put
the blame for such outbreaks on the workers, de-
claring that they "fail to realize the real situation. "
Outside of Peking the Red Guard movement ap-
pears to have split on the same political issue. I
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Nigeria: Prospects for an early meeting between
Supreme Commander Gowon and Eastern military
governor Ojukwu now appear dimmer than ever.
In major speeches on 30 November Gowon and
Ojukwu spelled out their sharply divergent positions
on the future of the Nigerian federation. Ojukwu again
proposed to reduce interregional ties to the level of a
confederation.
Gowon flatly rejected this. He instead announced
plans to convene a broadly representative constit-
uent assembly to which he would submit a draft of a
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tive" federation. This maneuver is presumably in-
tended to bypass Qjukwu's regime.
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Burundi - Communist China: The Micombero re-
gime may be planning to re- establish relations with
Communist China soon. The American wife of a
Burundi diplomat told the US charge on 1 December
that President Micombero and other members of the
new government have recently intimated more than
once that Peking's representatives are to return
"shortly. " The diplomat's wife, who with her hus-
band has some access to the regime's leaders, said
she believes the US Embassy will be expelled at the
same time.
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Japan: Prim.e Minister Sato's poor showing in his
re-election to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
presidency yesterday further weakens his party's pros-
pects in next year's general elections. Factional
maneuvering is likely to increase and to result in split-
ting the LDP vote. The vote against Sato considerably
exceeded the total Japanese political observers had
predicted would seriously damage his prestige. No
opposition standard bearer emerged, however; former
cabinet minister Fujiyama's unimpressive showing
disqualifies him as a rival to the rime minister.
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES
The United States Intelligence Board on 1 Decem-
ber 1966 approved the following national intelligence
estimates:
SNIE 70-2-66, "Probable Developments Follow-
ing the UN General Assembly Resolution to
Terminate the South-West Africa Mandate"
NIE 11-12-66, "The Outlook for Sino- Soviet
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