CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: September 17, 1968
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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No. 0263/68
17 September 1968
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
South Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
USSR-Czechoslovakia: Moscow gives guarded approval
of trends in Czec oslovakia. (Page 2)
Burma: Strife between two insurgent groups eases
pressure on government forces. (Page 5)
Okinawa: Prospects are about etren for the con-
servatives and the leftists in the November elections.
Ceylon: The governing coalition retains a majority
despite the withdrawal of the Federal Party. (Page 7)
East Germany - Czechoslovakia: Pankow's hard line
(Page 8)
OAU-Nigeria: Summit meeting (Page 8)
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[South Vietnam: Military action remained con-
centrated in the northern provinces and in III Corps
on 15-16 September.
In I Corps, South Vietnamese rangers reported
killing 114 Communist troops and capturing 23 weap-
ons, 3,000 pounds of rice, and a large quantity of
ammunition in a day-long battle south of Da Nang.
Meanwhile, there were intermittent clashes between
US Marines and enemy troops near the Demilitarized
Zone and near Quang Ngai city.
In the provinces around Saigon, the enemy di-
rected more than 20 mortar and rocket attacks against
allied positions.
Allied forces continued to uncover significant
quantities of Communist supplies. A second very
large cache was discovered over the weekend by US
soldiers in III Corps, and South Vietnamese forces
turned up a third in IV Corps. The two caches un-
covered in III Corps are among the largest ever
discovered, and their loss may cause further delays
in operations Planned for some enemy units in the
area. F I
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USSR-Czechoslovakia: Moscow has expressed
guarded approva of the trend of developments in
Czechoslovakia but continued to criticize "re-
actionary elements" in the country.
Pravda yesterday ran an article from its "spe-
cial correspondents" in Prague alluding favorably
to the restrictive measures recently adopted by the
Czechoslovak regime. The _irticle cited a growing
"tendency" to understand t.--tat the "only correct and
possible course has been c]:.arted in the Moscow agree-
ments" and in the Czechoslc:vak central committee de-
cisions "drawn up after the Moscow talks."
The article, however, failed to echo Prague's
claims that the situation _s being "normalized"--the
ambiguous precondition for the withdrawal of Soviet
troops. Instead, Pravda alleged that "antisocialist
forces still have influence on rather considerable
sections of the population," and attributed the pop-
ular hostility to the occupation forces to the "sub-
versive activity of the ric1t-wing forces."
Prague has been irritated by the failure of its
Soviet bloc allies to keep their promise of nonin-
terference in Czechoslovakia's internal affairs.
The Czechoslovak Government has protested to Poland
about allegations in the Polish press that the Czech-
oslovak National Assembly's foreign affairs committee
had endorsed "neutrality" for Czechoslovakia.
In addition, the main Czechoslovak party daily
Rude Pravo published a stat;?ment by 13 leading-
econ-omists criticizing Soviet news media for their at-
tacks on Ota Sik, foremost Czechoslovak economic
theorist who recently resigned from the post of
deputy premier. The Rude Pravo statement reminded
the Soviets that they had promised not to interfere
with the planning and management of the Czechoslovak
economy.
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a zec os ova delegation is supposed to go to Moscow
next week to negotiate the withdrawal of some of the
Soviet troops. According to reports on the Moscow
agreement, some Soviet troops will continue to be
stationed on Czechoslovakia's border with West Ger-
many.
There has been no substantial change in the
status of Soviet forces in Eastern Europe. The US
military attache in Rumania has reported that some
Rumanian troops appeared to be returning to garrison
on 11-13 September. These troops probably deployed
to positions near the Bulgarian border during the
Czechoslovak crisis.
the personnel strength of the Czechoslovak
armed forces will be at least temporarily reduced.
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a enlisted men who had served their two-year
term of service would be discharged on or about
26 September, but that the 1968 call-up of recruits
had been "indefinitely deferred."
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Rival Insurgent Groups Clash in Northeast Bunna
Operating 'Areas of Kachin
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Operating Area 'ofWhite Flag
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Northeast fomtnand
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Burma.: Hostilities between two major insurgent
groups could ease Communist pressures on the Burmese
Army.
According to recently available information,
the Kachin Independence Army of northern Burma on
2 August declared "war" on the pro-Peking White Flag
Communists. The White Flags responded by labeling
the Kachins "running dogs of General Ne Win."
For at least two months the White Flag "Northeast
Command" has been attempting to establish a base
area in northeast Burma along the Sino-Burmese border.
The White Flags apparently clashed several times
with.Kachin forces while trying to carve out their
secure area. The Kachins, who are predominantly
anti-Communists interested in winning autonomy from
the Burmese Government, had earlier been considering
an alliance with the White Flags.
Diversion of some of the White Flag troops to
operations against the Kachins may bring an easing
of White Flag harassment of Burmese Army forces.
The White Flags had inflicted heavy casualties on
the Burmese Army in encounters that have been de-
scribed as the largest in recent years.
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Okinawa: Three of Japan's major parties rate
the prospects of the majority Okinawa conservatives
and the leftist coalition about even in the November
elections for chief executive and legislature.
Political forecasters in Japan's governing
Liberal Democratic Party believe the Okinawan Komei-
kai, the affiliate of Japan's Buddhist-based Komei
Party, holds the swing vote it the elections. Komei-
kai, however, is currently ne:Ltral and will probably
be a decisive factor in the ra.ce for chief executive
only if it officially endorses one of the two candi-
dates.
A high-level Komei Party official who visited
Okinawa last week says that while the leftist candi-
date Yara still has an advantage, his opponent
Nishime is closing the gap as conservative Japanese
money enters the campaign.
Japanese leftist and conservative political
personalities and organizers will soon be sent to
the Ryukyus in an attempt to provide momentum to the
campaigns of the respective Okinawan candidates.
Earlier this month, the-Japanese Liberal Democrats,
seeking to increase the voter appeal of the Okinawan
conservatives, promised the Okinawans new Japanese
assistance in education, develo ment, and welfare.
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Ceylon: The moderate government of Prime
Minister Senanayake retains a working majority in
Parliament despite the decision of the Federal Party
to withdraw from the governing coalition.
The Federal Party, devoted to the interests
of Ceylon's Tamil minority, recently has become in-
creasingly dissatisfied with the benefits received
from its three and one half year participation in
the national government. The prime minister's
handling of recent Tamil demands involving language,
religion, and especially local autonomy in the north-
ern and eastern provinces has caused particular con-
cern within the party. The local autonomy proposal
had met with strong disapproval from the predomi-
nantly Sinhalese general public, and passage of the
legislation could ultimately have helped to bring
victory in the general elections in 1970 to the
leftist opposition coalition.
The party's withdrawal appears to be a face-
saving gesture in the wake of political threats from
the Tamil Congress Party--which has been improving
its prospects to the detriment of the Federal Party--
and from Tamil extremists, who have called for a
separate Tamil state. The Federal Party plans to
sit with the opposition, but will continue to vote
with Senanayake's United National Party (UNP) on
most issues except those involving the Tamils. Sena-
nayake still can count on 85 seats in Parliament to
58 for the opposition and 13 for the Federal Party.
The prime minister and other UNP leaders prob-
ably are not displeased by the Federal Party's move.
There are no major parliamentary votes pending, and
the UNP, as a result, of some recent improvement in
Ceylon's economy, can accept with less risk a re-
duced parliamentary majority. Furthermore, the with-
drawal could help the UNP in the 1970 elections, be-
cause the Sinhalese majority might interpret the ac-
tion as evidence that the UNP had not betrayed their
interests in order to retain Tamil support.
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East Germany - Czechos_ovakia: Pankow still
appears highly dissatisfied with the manner in which
Prague is implementing the Moscow agreement. East
German spokesmen, including Premier Stoph, continue
to justify the intervention by pointing to an alleged
conspiracy between Western---particularly West German--
imperialists and Czechoslovak "revisionists" who, it
is maintained, are still at large. The East Germans
have also continued to attack the Czechoslovak news
media and certain individuals, and have labeled the
party's action program as "highly revisionist." In
a radio commentary on 14 September,, the Prague cor-
respondent of the East German radio implicitly crit-
icized the Dubcek regime for not moving faster to
impose complete censorship of the press.
OAU-Nigeria: The fifth summit of the Organiza-
tion of African Unity, notable for the absence of a
number of important African leaders and the early
departure of others, ended on 16 September in a
rather lackluster fashion. Although a spirited
clash over the Nigerian crisis appeared probable
before the conference, none developed. The four
supporters of Biafran secession--Tanzania, the Ivory
Coast, Gabon, and Zambia--were unable to promote
Biafra's cause. The final resolution reaffirms the
OAU's support for the Nigerian Government and appeals
for Biafran cooperation with the federal government
in restoring peace and unity.
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