CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 3, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
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Communist China: Cultural Revolution may be
entering new phase. (Page 3)
USSR-Mala sia:
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France -Somali Republic: Relations may worsen.
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Communist China: Indications that Liu Shao-chi
may soon be formally brought down suggest that the
Cultural Revolution is entering a new phase.
Liu, number two man in the party until last August
and still officially chief of state, was the target of an
all-day rally in Peking on 2 April. According to offi-
cial accounts of the event, "hundreds of thousands" of
demonstrators assembled outside the gate of the For-
bidden City and marched through Peking shouting "down
with the biggestpower holder of the party taking the
capitalist road. " Foreign newsmen report that the mob
chanted "down with Liu Shao-chi. "
The rally followed broadcasts on 30 March of Red
Flag and People's Daily articles denouncing Liu's book
Iiow To Be A Good Communist and warning people not
to be ''tricked" by this work, once hailed as a key party
document. The articles called for a campaign to "thor-
oughly criticize and repudiate" the books Although Liu
has been under repeated attack in posters and Red Guard
newspapers since last fall and was reportedly forced
publicly to abase himself in late 1966, until now he has
not been under direct fire from official central com-
mittee publications.
A major People's Dail article by Cultural Revolu-
tion publicist Chi Pen-yu, as broadcast on 2 April, de-
manded that the "handful of counterrevolutionary re-
visionists". must be overthrown and that the "top party
person in authority taking the capitalist road"--an un-
mistakable reference to Liu--must be removed and
"made to stand asideo " This might take place on 4 April.
Correspondents in Peking report that the city is plastered
with posters announcing another giant rally to be held
on that day for the purpose of denouncing Liuo
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The new and harsher attacks on Liu, which may
soon be extended to other major figures who have been
under fire, have, however, been accompanied by signs
that the Cultural Revolution is continuing to lose ve-
locity. Posters appearing in Peking on 31 March an-
nounced the imminent formation of a "revolutionary
committee" to serve as a. new government apparatus
for the city--a step which has been in prospect for
several weeks.
On 30 March, Urumchi radio revealed that the top
leadership in Sinkiang has remained largely intact.
Wang En-mao, first secretary and military commander
of the region, who has been severely attacked was pres-
ent at a rally on 28 March and identified in all his old
positions. Three other important officials from the pre-
vious administration were also identified in their old
jobs.
Newspapers put out by militant Red Guard organ-
izations in Peking during the past few days report an-
other move toward restoration of normalcy. Accord-
ing to these publications, party committees have been
reinstated in the central ministries and agencies of the
State Council, and "rebel" groups in these organizations
have been stripped of power. Red Guard posters in-
dicate that the top men in nearly all of the ministries
have survived despite the fact that most have been under
severe attack. Chou En-tai called in mid- February for
re-establishment of party committees in various gov-
ernment ministrieso
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USSR-Malaysian
Malaysia does not presently have diplomatic ties
with any Communist country, but there are several
incentives for a change of policy. The Soviet Union
is now a major importer of Malaysian rubber, and
the Communist nations comprise a significant market
for Malaysia's rubber at a time when world market
prices are falling. Moreover, the Malaysians may also
believe that diplomatic ties with Moscow would improve
their image among nonaligned nations who have been
critical of Kuala Lumpur1s Western orientation.
The USSR has been making a determined effort to
establish contacts in Far Eastern countries where it
has not traditionally been activeo Moscow established
a trade office in Singapore in 1966 and is also seekin
a trade agreement with the Philippines.
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France -Somali Republic: The French have ob-
tained Ethiopian agreement to absorb some 5,000
Somalians the French regard as being in French
Somaliland illegally, The French turned to Ethiopia
only after Mogadiscio had refused their offer to return
the illegal immigrants at a graduated pace. This
move, however, will aggravate French relations with
the Somali Republic and could lead Mogadiscio to a
diplomatic break with Paris. Although Mogadiscio
earlier had decided against a break, domestic pres-
sure for such a move ma now be revived and in-
tensified.
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