CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 21, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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CONTENTS
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
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Communist China: Peking apparently is trying to
reshape its governmental and party machinery.
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*Vietnam:
South Vietnam: President-elect Thieu apparently
is delaying decisions on the composition of the new
government.
Thieu may be stalling until he can take the matter
before the senior generals shortly before the inaugura-
tion. If he succeeds in having someone other than Loc
appointed prime minister, he will have seriously under-
cut Ky's influence in the new government.
Heavy fighting erupted in the Saigon area on 19-
20 October between US forces participating in Operation
FAIRFAX and an enemy force of undetermined size.
The allied units are attempting to prevent the assembly
of enemy troops and weapons for a possible terrorist
attack on the city during the upcoming inauguration
period. Recently captured enemy documents stress the
importance of increasing terrorist activity in the area.
North Vietnam:
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Recent photography indicates that repairs to the
Hanoi Power Plant are proceeding slowly and that the
plant cannot be completely restored before the end of
the year. The capital city has, nevertheless, man-
aged to meet its basic power needs by using diesel-
operated generators to back up the remaining capacity
of the plant, believed to be about half of its normal
output.
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Communist China: Peking appears to be making
tentative efforts to reshape its battered governmental
and party machinery.
Important leaders, who were frequently referred
to at the height of the Cultural Revolution only as "re-
sponsible officials," are now being identified in the
.press and radio: by the full list of their party'and gov-
ernmental titles. References to the Communist Party
itself have also become more frequent.
On 17 October Peking gave wide publicity to new
orders from Mao Tse-tung stressing how important it
is to reshape "revolutionary, great alliances"-- con-
solidated groupings of individual Red Guard organiza-
tions-- so that they correspond to existing trade, in-
dustrial, and administrative organs at the local level.
In ordering this consolidation, Peking has acknowl-
edged again that past disorders resulted in part from
competition among differing Red Guard groups inside
a production or administrative unit. A People's Daily
editorial on 18 October which asserted flatly that the
Cultural Revolution "has won a decisive victory" empha-
sized the need for a "unified command to coordinate
actions."
The "alliances" are a first step toward setting up
larger administrative bodies, composed of regular party
officials, Red Guards, and army elements. Such bod-
ies have already been recognized by Peking as the con-
trolling authority in a number of provinces. Peking
has been publicizing recent efforts to set up these larger
organs in additional provinces.
According to a broadcast on 17 October, the
Military Affairs Commission of the party has spelled
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out the army's role in carrying out Mao's new instruc-
tions. Party committees in military units were directpO
to hold special conferences at which lessons learned
during the "previous stage" of the Cultural Revolution
were to be summed up and new measures worked out
to push the movement forward to a "new stage." Cer-
tain army units were directed to publicize Mao's
instructions amon the masses and to "study together
with them."
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