CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: April 25, 1968
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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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C 196
25 April 1968
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25 April 1968
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Jordan-Israel: Amman's call for a Security Council
session on Jerusalem may lead to broader discussion
of Israeli occupation policies. (Page 2)
Laos: Communists soon may launch a terrorist cam-
paign against major towns. (Page 3)
Cambodia: Sihanouk publicly accuses Communists of
fomenting tribal rebellion in the northeast. (Page 4)
USSR: A harsh anti-Chinese editorial in Kommunist
may mean that Moscow will push this line at Bu apest
meeting. (Page 5)
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Nigeria: Federal leader Gowan trying to fend off
African pressures for an early cease-fire. (Page 7)
Panama: Robles' government and National Guard seek-
inT g extreme leftist support for presidential candi-
date Samudio. (Page 8)
Communist China -. Japan: Francs for trade (Page 10)
Congo (Kinshasa) - USSR: Diplomatic relations (Page
USSR-India: Submarine delivery (Page 10)
USSR Communist China: AN-12s (Page 10)
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Jordan-Israel: Jordan's call for a UN Security
Council meeting on Jerusalem could open the way for
a broader discussion of Israeli occupation policies.
The Jordanians are incensed over Israel's pre-
parations for an Independence Day celebration in
Jerusalem on 2 May. The Israelis have made exten-
sive plans for a parade, which will pass through
Arab sections of the city, and plan to display Arab
equipment seized last June. As planned, the parade
will include 200 tanks and armored cars and a 250-
plane flyover.
The Jordanians not only intend to emphasize
the provocative nature of the parade but also will
call attention to earlier Israeli moves to estab-
lish Israeli sovereignty over the Old City. Al-
though Israel' has thus far held back from formal
annexation, Israeli spokesmen have indicated that
the status of the city is essentially not negoti-
able.
Jordanian officials have stated that while
they are grateful for public expressions of US sup-
port, something more tangible would be appreciated
in this case.
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Targets of Planned Terrorist Raids
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Laos: There are reports that the Communists
may be planning a coordinated terrorist campaign
against major towns in the near future.
Pat et Lao elements
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will launch simultaneous harassing raids against the
provincial capitals of Luang Prabang, Saravane, and
Thakhek
taking precautions.
I Lao authorities are
It is possible that these reports have been gen-
erated by the Communists to play on the jangled nerves
of the Lao leadership. Similar rumors of a widespread
offensive to celebrate the Laotian New Year two weeks
ago did not materialize.
The Communists almost certainly have the capa-
bility to conduct such raids at a time of their own
choosing. Furthermore, there has been an increase in
Pathet Lao terrorism this year. Although thus far
confined almost exclusively to the countryside, such
terrorism has also been increasingly aimed against
the US presence in Laos. Over the past week, for ex-
ample, the Pathet Lao have destroyed the quarters of
US attaches in Muong Soui and of AID officials in Ban
Lahanam, althou h there were no US casualties in ei-
ther incident. (Map)
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Cambodia: Prince Sihanouk has publicly accused
the Communists of fomenting the tribal rebellion in
the northeast.
In a special address to the nation on 22 April,
Sihanouk claimed that there is considerable "evidence"
of Pathet Lao and Vietnamese Communist presence among
the tribal dissidents and that a number of Communist
agents have been captured by Cambodian authorities
there.
Sihanouk painted a bleak and reasonably accurate
picture of the deteriorating security situation in
Ratanakiri Province. He stated that recent attacks
on government outposts and harassment of government
patrols had been ordered by the Communists in an ef-
fort to extend their control over the province. He
also indicated that the security problem will worsen
in the coming months as the rainy season hinders
overland supply to isolated outposts.
Sihanouk may be exaggerating the threat in the
northeast somewhat for his own purposes, but he has
long considered the area as a prime target of Viet-
namese expansionism, and he doubtless views recent
events there as confirmation of his worst fears.
He proposed that Cambodian civilian officials
be mobilized and sent to Ratanakiri to help meet the
security threat. This is a clear expression of the
difficulty the 32,000-man Cambodian Army is having
meeting security threats in widespread areas of the
country. It also points up the inability of Phnom
Penh to increase the size of its security forces in
the face of severe budgetary problems,
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USSR: The harsh anti-Chinese editorial in
this week's Kommunist may mean that Moscow intends
to press this line at the Budapest meeting.
The basic themes of the editorial in the party
theoretical journal, as indicated by a lengthy TASS
summary, are that the Maoists have broken with Marx-
ism-Leninism, that the deviate course of China is
caused by extreme nationalism, and that the very
existence of Communism in China is in jeopardy.
The article for the most part contains charges
levied before by Soviet media, although pulling them
together in Kommunist does raise the pitch a few
decibels. The editorial is certainly also meant for
East European ears, as it stresses the pitfalls of
extreme nationalism--a theme that has been recurring
more and more in Soviet speeches and press. Such ar-
ticles, however, have little chance of influencing
trends under way in Eastern Europe.
In publishing the editorial at this time,
Moscow serves notice that it has no intention of
soft-pedaling its views on events in China as the
world communist conference preparatory meeting
begins in Budapest. Soviet stress on the interna-
tional implications of events in China indicate
that Moscow may be prepared to make more of an
issue of Chinese behavior at a world conference
late this year than was foreshadowed at the con-
sultative meeting in February and March of this
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Nigeria: Federal leader Gowon is moving to
counteract rising African pressures for an early
cease-fire with secessionist Biafra.
Gowon
is scheduled to fly to Accra today to discuss with
Ghanaian leader Ankrah and visiting Congolese Pres-
ident Mobutu "ways to end the Nigerian civil war."
Mobutu, who is also president of the organization
of African Unity, flew to Ghana earlier this week
to try to reactivate the OAU's long dormant com-
mittee on the Nigerian problem. Gowon might also
stop off in Liberia to confer with President Tub-
man.
In the wake of Tanzania's recent recognition
of Biafra, several African leaders, including Mobutu
and the presidents of Zambia, Ivory coast, and Sen-
egal, have shown increased impatience with what they
regard as Gowon's intransigence. They are anxious
to get the fighting stopped and talks started with-
out preconditions.
Gowon maintains that a cease-fire can only
follow an agreement by the secessionists to abandon
their proclaimed sovereignty and accept their place
in the Nigerian federation as restructured by Lagos.
In an effort to appear more flexible and to fore-
stall additional recognitions of Biafra, Gowon re-
cently publicized his willingness to engage in ex-
ploratory talks with the Biafrans. His foreign min-
ister arrived in London earlier this week, apparently
to make contact with various intermediaries.
Prospects for talks of any kind, however,
remain extremely dim. Ojukwu's latest public state-
ment re-emphasized his view that a cease-fire is a
prerequisite to talks and raised other potentially
complicating conditions. Gowon for his part is un-
likely to halt the fighting before taking certain
key objectives, particularly Port Harcourt, the
entry point for Biafra's air-delivered military
supplies.
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Panama : The Robles government, with the sup-
port of the National Guard, is taking steps to enlist
extreme leftist support for presidential candidate
David Samudio.
The National Guard is planning to assist all
National Assembly candidates running on the Samudio
slate.
The government had earlier won over rabble-
rousing pro-Castro journalist Thelma King. She had
been working for a newspaper controlled by the
opposition, but is now fully committed to Samudio
and is writing for a lurid, progovernment tabloid
recently established to promote Samudio's candidacy.
The Samudio camp is also backing the campaign of
Moises "Monchi" Torrijos, an anti-US editorial
writer sympathetic to the extreme leftists.
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Communist China - Japan: China will settle
trade accounts with Japan in French francs instead
of pound sterling this year,
Japanese firms in e
China trade suffered losses with the devaluation of
sterling last November, and early this year a dele-
gation visited Peking to discuss the role of sterling
in future trade. Agreement was reached to substitute
French francs and to settle accounts in other cur-
rencies for all trade except Japanese fertilizer ex-
ports to China if fluctuations in the franc appear
to warrant it. Last year, Japanese trade with China
reached about $560 million.
Congo (Kinshasa) - USSR: The imminent arrival
of Soviet diplomats in Kinshasa will mark the first
time in almost five years that the two countries
have had diplomatic relations. Twice before the
Soviets have been expelled for meddling in Congo-
lese affairs. President Mobutu was involved both
times. The Soviets are aware of the Mobutu govern-
ment's suspicion of the USSR and are likely to be
circumspect in their initial dealings with the Con-
golese.
USSR-India: India is the first non-Communist
country to get delivery of a Soviet F-class subma-
rine. An F-class left the Baltic on 18 April, es-
corted by an Indian naval ship. At least three of
these long-range diesel-powered submarines are
known to have been ordered under Soviet-Indian
arms agreement of October 1965.
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