CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 14, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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14 December. 1966
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
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Berlin: East Germany's intransigence does not
yet rule out holiday pass arrangement. (Page 4)
4. Communist China - Macao: Portuguese capitula-
tion reduces threat of further disturbances.
(Page 5)
5. Panama: Robles government injects canal ne-
gotiations into approaching election campaign.
(Page 6)
6. Note: Venezuela. (Page 7)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EST)
The Military Situation in South Vietnam: US
forces are participating in 12 of 27 battalion- size or
larger Allied search-and-destroy operations now in
progress, but no major enemy contact has been re-
ported in the past 24 hours.
Elements of the South Vietnamese 21st Division
conducting search-and destroy Operation DAN CHI
270D in the delta province of Chuong Thien today over-
ran a Viet Cong POW camp southwest of the provincial
capital of Duc Long. Sixty-four South Vietnamese para-
military and regular troops were liberated without
enemy resistance.
Sizable quantities of Viet Cong documents, am-
munition, and explosives have been captured in this
operation since it began on 12 December. (Map)
North Vietnamese Military Developments: North
Vietnamese air defense elements yesterday offered
heavy resistance to US aircraft conducting strikes
against three major targets within 20 miles of Hanoi.
Two US planes were lost to surface-to-air missiles
(SAMs) and a third was downed by antiaircraft artillery
fire.
Preliminary pilot reports indicate the attacks on
the Yen Vien rail yard, the Van Dien vehicle depot, and
the Xuan Mai highway bridge were successful and that
a SAM site was also destroyed.
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DRV fighter aircraft- -airborne in record numbers--
failed to shoot down any US planes despite their use of
air-to-air missiles (AAMs). Seven MIG encounters
were reported, involving a total of at least 12 MIG-21s
and nine MIG-17s, The DRV Air Force has yet to score
a kill with an AAM despite several efforts during
past two weeks.
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Berlin: East Germany's unofficial announcement
that West Berlin must recognize the GDR as the price
for a holiday pass agreement does not rule out some
visiting arrangements for West Berliners.
The East Germans want to avoid the,onus for
preventing the popular Christmas visits. They may
still back down in order to reach an agreement--the
first agreement in 1963 was not signed until 17 Decem-
ber. Or they may offer passes directly to individual
West Berliners without any agreement.
Some preparations for visiting already have been
made. Application forms and pass blanks reportedly
were printed in November, and within the last two
weeks between 15 and 20 processing booths were
erected at two of the four surface crossing points.
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Communist China - Macao: Acceptance by local
Chinese authorities of capitulation by Portuguese
authorities reduces the threat of renewed disturb-
ances, at least for the time being.
The official Chinese news agency has announced
the capitulation, and the withdrawal of four Chinese
Communist gunboats from the area sug ests an inten-
tion to relax pressure for the present.
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This display of Portuguese inability and unwilling-
ness to resist Chinese Communist pressure makes it
clear that Peking can at. any time score further cheap
and easy political victories at Portugal's expense.
For the moment, however, Peking will probably be
satisfied with the acknowledgment, by Macao authori-
ties that the Communists have the predominant role
in respect to Chinese Communist citizens of Macao.
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Panama The Robles government appears to be
trying to improve its position for the approaching
political campaign by engaging in a pressure cam-
paign on the canal issue.
In a conversation with a US Embassy official,
Secretary General Jacome of Robles' Liberal party
defended recent editorials in party president Samudio's
newspaper that called for psychological warfare
with the US on the treaty issue. Jacome justified the
editorials on. the : basis that government leaders must
be in the forefront on "patriotic issues. " He said that
press attacks would become 'seven stronger" unless
treaty prospects improved.
A weekly paper, considered to be President
Robles' mouthpiece, on 7 December carried an ed-
itorial questioning US faith in the negotiations.
The slow pace of the canal talks has been a con-
tinuing subject of opposition criticism in Panama.
As elections approach and politicians. look for means
to defend the administration's position, the govern-
ment will find it increasingly difficult to maintain a
restrained attitude toward the US.
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NOTE
Venezuela: In two separate attacks yesterday,
terrorists injured the Venezuelan Army chief of staff
and killed a retired major who had participated in the
conviction of a terrorist in 1963. The attackers left
leaflets threatening to kill three military officers for
every terrorist arrested. President Leoni has sus-
pended constitutional guarantees, probably to give the
authorities the means to cope with the terrorists and
to allay military discontent with government inaction
against them.
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