CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A010800050001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 8, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

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8 February 1968
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
West Germany - Poland: Bonn is seeking to main-
tain the momentum of its Eastern policy through
overtures to Warsaw. (Page 7)
Belgium: Consultations on a new government are
likely to be difficult and lengthy. (Page 8)
Denmark: Copenhagen wants to be reassured that
the US accepts Denmark's policy on nuclear weapons.
(Page 9)
Nigeria: Peace proposals (Page 10)
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West Germany - Poland: Bonn is seeking to open
a dialogue with Warsaw concerning the Oder-Neisse
line.
Chancellor Kiesinger intends to ask President de
Gaulle during their talks on 15-16 February to inform
the Poles that West Germany is prepared to discuss
the border issue. Foreign Minister Brandt intends to
ask Sweden to transmit the same message to Warsaw,
and other diplomatic channels may be used.
The initiative toward Poland is designed to main-
tain the momentum of West Germany's Eastern policy fol-
lowing the re- establishment of diplomatic relations
with Yugoslavia on 31 January.
According to a West German Foreign Ministry of-
ficial, Bonn might be prepared to make a declaration
committing itself on the border question at a future
peace conference, if this would clearly lead to a re-
sumption of diplomatic relations. Sentiment has been
growing in West Germany for acceptance of the Oder-
Neisse line, but Bonn's official position is that German
boundaries must be determined at a peace conference
officially terminating World War II.
West German officials see little chance of a break-
through with Warsaw at present but view this probe as
the first move in a campaign to soften the hard Polish
line toward West Germany. They also reason that the
probe will make it more difficult for the Poles to assert
that Bonn is intransigent on the border issue.
For their part, the Poles may be willing to hold
private exploratory talks. Immediate results should
not be expected.
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Belgium: A cabinet crisis has arisen after the
government of Prime Minister Vanden Boeynants
collapsed yesterday.
King Baudouin is consulting with political leaders
on forming a new government. In view of the tension
between the French and Dutch- speaking communities,
these consultations are likely to be difficult and
lengthy. If the King cannot obtain agreement among
the major parties on a successor, elections will be
necessary.
The major parties, however, are under pressure
to come up with some sort of a compromise since
elections would probably benefit only the small, mili-
tant parties.
Foreign policy is not an issue, and Belgium's
membership in NATO is not in question.
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Denmark: The new Danish Government wants to
be assured that the US accepts Denmark's policy of
banning nuclear weapons in Greenland.
Foreign Minister Hartling informed Ambassador
White on 7 February that Denmark does not anticipate
renegotiation of the 1951 Greenland base treaty. He
sees something less formal, such as an exchange of
notes, in which the US would accept Denmark's policy
of not allowing nuclear weapons to be stationed on its
territory and banning overflights of aircraft carrying
such weapons.
Hartling indicated that this formula would sat-
isfy what he and the government see as the insistent
public demand for positive assurances that Denmark
will rigidly stick to its stand against nuclear weapons.
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Nigeria: The secretary general of the London-
based Commonwealth Secretariat is going to Lagos
on.9 February to present his latest proposals for
halting Nigeria's civil war. Although his proposals
provide for the maintenance of a united Nigeria,
federal leaders will probably react negatively,
especially since their military campaign is going
well. Biafran leader Ojukwu recently has appeared
more flexible regarding Biafran sovereignty and al-
ready may have approved the Secretariat's initiative.
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