CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2002
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• Publication Date: March 15, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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India: Congress Party may be forced to impose
direct rule on second state. (Page 5)
Cuba: Castro attacks Venezuela and USSR.
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India: The Congress Party, forced to impose
direct rule from I~Tew Delhi on the politically un-
stable state of Rajasthan, hopes to avoid doing so in
the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesho
Efforts by Congress and the opposition in
Rajasthan to form a state government resulted in
considerable violence when neither side was able to
win a clear majorityo Anti-Congress feeling ran so
high that even if a Congress government had been
formed civil disorders probably would have continued.
C. B. Gupta, leader of the Congress Party in
Uttar Pradesh, has been given a mandate by the gov-
ernor to form a government and is scheduled to sub-
mit his list of ministers soon. The Uttar Pradesh
Assembly is scheduled to meet on 17 March, at which
time the new government must obtain a vote of con-
fidence.
As in Rajasthan, neither the Congress Party nor
the opposition coalition won an absolute majority in
the state legislature in the recent elections. Gupta
and the opposition have been competing strenuously
for the support of enough independents to ensure a
majority. Gupta claims to have control of 217 seats
of the total of 425.
Anti- Congress disorders may break out in Uttar
Pradesh, as the opposition appears unreconciled to
a Congress government. A general work stoppage
in the state capital, called on 13 March by the oppo-
sition, was only partially successful, apparently be-
cause man members of the o
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Cuba: Fidel Castro reassumed the role of an
embattled revolutionary in his speech on 13 March,
Castro went to great lengths to rebut official
Venezuelan charges that Cuba was responsible for
the assassination last week of the brother of Vene-
zuela's foreign ministero Castro denied any knowl-
edge of who killed him, and blasted the orthodox
Venezuelan Communists for blaming the shooting on
the dissident Communist Armed Forces of National
Liberation (FALN). He also defended his program
for exporting revolution and attacked by implication
the pro-Moscow Communist parties in Latin America,
which. he again castigated for impeding the progress
of armed revolution.
The Cuban leader also implicitly attacked re-
cent Soviet economic and diplomatic overtures to
several "oligarchy governments" in Latin America.
He has long nursed a grudge against Moscow for
its efforts to improve state-to-state relationships
with a number of Latin American governments, espe-
cially Chile and Colombia. This resentment was
apparent in his statement, "whoever helps those
oligarchies where guerrillas are fighting will be
helping to repress the revolutions " He went on to
assert that "we will be a satellite of no one ideo-
logically, internally, or externally. "
Castro's speech was similar in tone to others
he has given in the past when impatient with the
lack of results from his external and internal pro-
. grams, although the latter recently have been
looking better--at least as regards the sugar har-
vest. His main scapegoats this time were the
orthodox Latin American Communists, particularly
`the Venezuelan a"rt and Moscow's "errant" pali- "
cies.
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE
The United States Intelligence Board on 13 March
1967 approved the fallowing national intelligence es-
timate:
Memorandum to Holders of NIE 11-14-66, "Ca-
pabilities of the Soviet General Purpose Forces"
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