CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: June 21, 1969
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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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21 June 1969
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No. 0148/69
21 June 1969
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
South Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
USSR - Communist China: Moscow is urging Western
nations to withhold recognition from Peking.
(Page 3)
Japan-Okinawa: Japan's largest labor confederation
is planning agitation against the extension of the
US-Japan security treaty. (Page 4)
West Germany - Poland: The visit of Berlin's
Mayor Schuetz to Poland left the door open for
further talks. (Page 6)
Colombia: Reunification of Conservative Party
factions gives a new complexion to preparations for
the national elections in 1970. (Page 7)
Nigeria: Attacks against oil fields (Page 9)
Burma: Foreign minister's dismissal (Page 9)
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AVERAGE STRENGTH
NORTH
OF ENEMY UNITS
VIETNAM
Battalion:
VC
200- 400
NVA
300- 500
Demilitarized Zone
Regiment:
VC
1,000 1,500
.Quang In
NVA
1,200 2,000
Division:
VC
5,000-7000
Hue ?
NVA
5,000-8,000
Shau
? Da Nang
CORPS
. Quang Ngai
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ESouth Vietnam: Heavy fighting in Tay Ninh
Province tapered off on 20 June, and enemy military
activity elsewhere generally was limited to occa-
sional shellings and small-unit engagements.
The two-day Communist offensive thrust in Tay
Ninh carried on the virtual campaign the enemy has
been conducting in that area. The fighting in Tay
Ninh city was the third time since last September
that enemy forces have tested the defenses of that
provincial capital.
The extent of the continuing Communist effort
in Tay Ninh suggests that this province plays an
important role in longer term enemy plans. Tay
Ninh has long been a center of Communist operations,
and the population has been subjected to special
blandishments and intimidation.
The Communists may well be looking toward a
period when a cease-fire and arrangements for a
settlement lead to a head-on political confronta-
tion with South Vietnamese authorities for control
of the province. Tay Ninh is one of the areas
where the Communists recently set up a provincial-
level "revolutionary committee," and
lenemy forces are spotting po-
tential canaiaates for a postwar government.
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USSR - Communist China: The Soviet Union is
stepping up its efforts to isolate China by urging
Western nations to withhold recognition from the
Peking government.
In the past week Soviet Embassy officials in
Rome, including the ambassador, have called at the
Foreign Ministry in an effort to discourage the
Italians from recognizing Peking. The Soviets urged
that "all states.. .refrain from any action" which
would encourage Peking's "present policies." One
of the Soviet officials noted that Canada, Belgium,
and West Germany were considering actions that
would provide such "encouragement," but that the
isolation of China might be the only way to curb
its "aggressive policies."
This is the most direct step that the Soviets
have taken yet to discourage new diplomatic con-
tacts with Peking, although for some time Moscow
has clearly been unenthusiastic about them. I I
The Soviets will probably make similar ap-
proaches to other countries considering the recog-
nition of Peking. Moscow's decision may indicate
that a more active anti-Chinese policy will be
pursued by the Soviets after the current meeting
in Moscow of Soviet ambassadors to Asia breaks up.
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Japan-Okinawa: The leftist Sohyo labor con-
federation, Japan's largest, has adopted a blueprint
for agitation against the extension of the US-Japan
security treaty over the next year, culminating in
a "general strike" in June 1970.
Nationwide demonstrations on 23 June, the
ninth anniversary of the date the security treaty
became effective, are planned as the first of a
series of rallies, strikes, and meetings to be held
nearly every month until next spring. Sohyo leaders
have indicated that the labor organization will also
act in sympathy when other antitreaty forces take
public action. On the 23rd, for example, Sohyo
will support leftist demonstrations in Okinawa.
A Sohyo officer has privately told a US Embassy
official that events on Okinawa will heavily in-
fluence the scale and intensity of Sohyo's action
in Japan. Sohyo has been unable, however, to
attract much support in recent years for its demon-
strations against the US role in Vietnam and Okinawa.
Police in both Japan and Okinawa have made
extensive preparations for the demonstrations planned
for 23 June in order to curb extremist students who
might try to provoke violence.
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West Germany - Poland: The recent visit of
West Berlin Mayor Schuetz to Poland left the door
open for further talks.
In his talk with Foreign Minister Jedrychowski,
Schuetz claims that he detected a genuine Polish
interest in talking with the West Germans, partic-
ularly about the Oder-Neisse issue. Schuetz feels
that the form of an agreement was not really im-
portant to the Poles as long as the present boundary
was really accepted. The mayor also believes that
the Poles are interested in increasing trade and
cultural relations with West Berlin.
Schuetz has asserted that his reception was
cordial and without political pitfalls. Challenging
the mayor's optimistic view, however, a Bonn for-
eign office official and the resident West German
trade mission chief in Warsaw have noted that the
Poles sought to use the visit to promote the Com-
munist thesis that West Berlin is a separate polit-
ical entity.
The Polish press has not yet pressed this
point, and West German press and public comment on
the Schuetz visit has been favorable. Schuetz'
fellow Social Democrats will probably cite his
visit in the forthcoming election campaign as a
success for the party's Eastern policy.
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Colombia: Reunification of Conservative Party
factions gives a whole new complexion to prepara-
tions for the national elections in 1970.
Under the National Front coalition, the long-
dominant Liberal and Conservative parties agreed to
alternate the presidency from 1958 to 1974 and to
divide other government positions equally. It is
the Conservatives' turn to choose a candidate, who
will be the last to serve as president under the
coalition arrangement. As the minority party, the
Conservatives plan to use the coming presidential
term to strengthen and broaden their political in-
fluence before open political competition resumes
in 1974.
The declaration of reunification, signed on
18 June, reintegrates a dissident faction that had
opposed close cooperation with the Liberals. The
dissidents now have agreed to join in a broad-based
party convention to choose a single Conservative
candidate.
This move reduces the danger that ex-dictator
Rojas Pinilla might profit by a split in the coali-
tion to win the presidency. The effect, however,
on the prospects of President Lleras' preferred
presidential candidate, Ambassador to the US Misael
Pastrana, is not yet clear. The reunification will
damage the already-announced candidacy of maverick
Conservative Belisario Betancur. He may persist,
however, with the support of labor, student, and
church groups who are seeking a voice to combat the
closed system of old-line party politics.
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Biafrans Launch Attacks on Nigerian Oil Installations
Benin City
no go
Biafran aircraft
damages storage tank
Oilfield
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Oilfield
New pipeline --"` (shell-Bp)
Port Harcourt,
Trans-Niger Pipeline
F-7 BIAFRAN CONTROLLED AREA
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Biafrans blow up
two small pipelines
Oilfield
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NOTES
Nigeria: The Biafrans have carried out their
first attacks against producing oil fields. Biafran
infiltrators recently blew up two small pipelines at
one oilfield, temporarily reducing production there.
On 18 June, rockets from one of the secessionists'
recently acquired light aircraft damaged a storage
tank at another field, which, although reportedly
empty at the time, is important to a major new pipe-
line system scheduled to go into operation next
month. Earlier this month the Biafrans said they
were determined to stop the flow of Nigerian oil,
which amounts to about 600,000 barrels per day and
is a major source of the federal government's for-
25X1 eign exchange. (Map)
Burma: The prospects for civilianizing the
military regime, an idea broached by Ne Win last
fall, have been set back. Foreign Minister U Thi
Han, the only civilian member of the cabinet, was
"permitted to resign" on 18 June, ostensibly because
of his "anxiety" that his friendship with disaffected
military officers and civilian opponents of the Ne
Win regime would interfere with his official duties.
The discharge of U Thi Han, who reportedly has been
highly regarded by General Ne Win, is indicative of
strong opposition within the ruling military Revo-
lutionary Council to any political changes.
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