CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 9, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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9 December 1967
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Jordan-Iraq-France: Arms deal may cover transfer
of aircraft to Jordan. (Page 3)
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Turkey: Government is under fire for its handling of
the Cyprus crisis. (Page 5)
USSR - West Germany: Moscow makes it clear that
the price is high for better relations. (Page 7)
Cyprus: Relaxation moves (Page 8)
Czechoslovakia-USSR: Brezhnev visit (Page 8)
France: Another nuclear sub (Page 9)
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Jordan-Iraq-France: The arms deal being nego-
tiated between Iraq and France may in part be a cover
for the eventual transfer of jet fighters to Jordan.
Such a transfer could involve either some of the
Mirage jet fighters said to be included in the proposed
Iraqi package or Iraqi Hawker Hunters which the Mi-
rages would replace.
King Husayn explored with De Gaulle the possi-
bility of getting Mirages directly from France last
October. De Gaulle reportedly indicated that there
was elasticity in the French embargo on arms ship-
ments to the Middle East and that he would explore
the possibility of supplying weapons to Jordan indi-
rectly through some other Arab state.
The Iraqis may be willing to serve as middlemen;
they already have supplied Jordan withElCenturion
tanks from their own inventory. They presumably
also are interested in obtaining Mirages for their own
use, however, and the Iraqis may plan to replace their
British- made Hawker Hunters with Mirages and to
transfer the Hunters to Jordan. This would relieve
Jordan, which presently has eight Hunters, of the ne-
cessity of training pilots to fly Mirages.
This possible alternative for re- equipping the
Jordanian Air Force with Hawker Hunters was dis-
cussed in an Israeli radio broadcast on 28 November.
The broadcast added that its correspondent in Paris
had learned that Jordan would later receive Mirages
through Pakistan. F
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Turkey: There has been strong criticism of the
Demirel government in the wake of the Cyprus crisis.
This is an outgrowth of the expectations created
by the war fever in Turkey, which peaked in late No-
vember. Members of the ruling Justice Party and
some high- and middle-grade military officers have
been reproached bitterly for not invading Cyprus.
A combination of extreme leftists and nationalists
in parliament failed in an attempt to censure the Demirel
government for its handling of the crisis. Dissension
over the question will plague the government, however,
especially during the upcoming annual budget debate.
The most serious threat to Demirel comes from
the dissatisfaction within the military establishment.
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USSR - West Germany: A Soviet broadside about
the "rebirth of fascism" in West Germany makes clear
that the price to Bonn for better relations with the So-
viet Union remains high.
According to the Soviet declaration, there is "no
other way" for Bonn to gain better relations than to
accept the existence of two German states, the sepa-
rate identity of West Berlin, and the permanence of
Germany's borders. These conditions also apply to
an exchange of agreements on the renunciation of force,
which is a focal point of the conversations between
Foreign Minister Brandt and Soviet Ambassador Tsa-
rapkin.
Yesterday's attack ostensibly was occasioned by
the recent convention activities of the rightwing Na-
tional Democratic Party. As in a similar statement
last January, Moscow accused Bonn of nurturing neo-
Nazism by refusing to accept the results of World
War II.
A government statement blackening Bonn is also
useful to Moscow at this time in other connections.
It publicly reassures East Germany by dampening its
concern over the Brandt-Tsarapkin dialogue and gets
a warning against West German "militarism" on the
record before next week's meeting of NATO foreign
ministers.
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Cyprus: The first 400 Greek troops and some
equipment were evacuated from Cyprus by ship from
Famagusta yesterday. The Turks have begun to com-
ply with their part of the recent accord. Some of the
invasion forces massed in southern Turkey have re-
grouped at points farther from the coast, and antiair-
craft protection around a major oil refinery near
Mersin
Czechoslovakia-USSR: Brezhnev arrived suddenly
in Prague yesterday for a first-hand look at the situa-
tion. His aim may well be to help shore up party boss
Novotny, whose authority has been challenged in recent
months. The regime has serious problems on its
hands and is divided on how to handle them. I
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France: !Paris reportedly has decided to move
ahead -on a long-standing proposal to increase the
strength of the nuclear submarine fleet being built
for the force de dissuasion. The initial construction
program called for three Polaris-type submarines,
each carrying 16 ballistic missiles. A fourth 'subma-
rine has now been authorized, with construction to
begin in the 1970s, and the French Government is
studying a plan to expand the force to five. The cost
of the first submarine without its missiles, will be
about $140 million.
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