CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: December 8, 1969
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No. 0293/69
8 December 1969
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Czechoslovakia: A new punitive measure permitting
banishment from Prague has been introduced by the
government. (Page 1)
Hungary: A purge may be taking place in the Ministry
of Interior. (Page 2)
Colombia: Severe splits within the country's two
major parties may result from selection of the
National Front candidate. (Page 3)
Bolivia: The government is responding to pressure to
remove "imperialist intervention" in the labor move-
ment. (Page 4)
Panama: Business and labor are concerned about the
government's plans to build a political base among
workers. (Page 5)
Czechoslovakia: Plenum postponed (Page 6)
Uruguay: Territorial waters claim (Page 6)
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Czechoslovakia:. The introduction of a new pun
itive measure--'prohibition of residence"--suggests
that the Husak leadership is determined to preserve
domestic tranquility at all costs.
An estimated 21 persons have been banished from
Prague for violating emergency laws passed on 22 Aug-
ust, a day after nationwide demonstrations marked the
first anniversary of the Soviet invasion. Prague
authorities originally announced that this legisla-
tion would expire at the end of the year, but they
now intend to make it permanent and to incorporate
it into a new penal code to be drafted next year.
Banishment has only rarely been used as a form
of legal punishment since Czechoslovakia's Stalinist
period in the early 1950s.. The present emergency
laws call for banishment from 1 to 5 years, which
can be appended to prison sentences or applied to a
wide range of "offenses" that are not now punishable
as criminal acts. Under Husak, such a practice may
become a common alternative to imprisonment for pub-
lic manifestations of antiregime or anti-Soviet sent-
iment.
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Hungary: A purge may be taking place in the
Ministry ogf Interior.
Although there is no firm indication of the na-
ture of this struggle, the US Embassy has reported
rumors of an anti-Zionist purge. Because party
chief Kadar has been consistently opposed to anti-
Semitism, planners of such a purge would presumably
have to be very circumspect.
A party central committee meeting late last
month adopted a vague resolution that exhorted the
Hungarian public to continue support of the Interior
Ministry and admonished ministry employees to do
their job "speedily and conscientiously." This res-
olution followed unexplained visits by the East Ger-
man and Romanian ministers of interior in mid-Novem-
ber, both of whom talked with a Radar lieutenant not
previously known to be responsible for internal se-
curity.
The Ministry of Interior, which is responsible
for intelligence and security, has often been the
scene of factional infighting and purges have some-
times been necessary to restore order.
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Colombia: The selection of Misael Pastrana as
the National Front candidate in next April's presi-
dential elections probably will cause severe splits
within the country's two major parties.
For the first
time
since the Front arrangement
took force in 1958,
the
outcome is uncertain. Pas-
trana will receive
full
backing from the National
Front, which calls
for
alternating presidencies be-
tween' the Liberal and Conservative parties, but
other candidates probably will run. Foremost among
these is ex-dictator Rojas Pinilla, and possibly
former president Valencia. Other likely contenders
are Evaristo Sourdis, who received the same number
of votes as Pastrana during the Conservative conven-
tion last month, and Beli.sario Betancur,` who was se-
lected by a "popular" convention in late October.
Eighty-two of the more than 600 delegates walked
out of Friday's Liberal party convention as a protest
against the prearranged selection of Pastrana. The
dissidents have.threatened to organize a "popular"
convention to determine what action the group will
take, according to the US Embassy in Bogota. During
the Conservative convention in early Novmeber, Pas-
cure the party's nomination.
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Bolivia: The Ovando government is responding
to leftist and student pressure to remove "imperial-
ist intervention" in the Bolivian labor movement.
Minister of Information Bailey told the press
on 4 December that the government has no intention
of renewing the USAID-sponsored American Institute
for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) contract when it
expires at the end of this month. Bailey said that
if the US Government wishes to assist Bolivia in
labor development, this would be acceptable only if
such programs were under the comple,e control and
administration of Bolivian institutions. In a con-
versation with Ambassador Siracusa on 5 December,
President Ovando seemed more conciliatory on the is-
sue, but stated that the AIFLD contract must be mod-
ified to give the Bolivian Government a say in how
the program is run.
The minister of labor earlier took full credit
for getting the Inter-American Regional Labor Organ-
ization (GRIT) out of the country, although ORIT it-
self had decided to withdraw rather than continue to
be subject to leftist charges that might jeopardize
its missions in other Latin American countries.
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Panama: Business and labor are seriously con-
cerne about the provisional government's plans to
build a political base among workers by establish-
ing a government-controlled national labor organiza-
tion.
In an unusual demonstration of resistance to
the government, the Confederation of Panamanian
Workers and the National Council of Private Enter-
prise, a powerful business organization, have indi-
cated strong opposition to the new labor policy
which calls for compulsory union participation in
the new organization. The labor leaders are con-
vinced that the leftist minister of labor is behind
the new policy.
They are attempting to arrange a meeting with
the government strongman General Torrijos before his
scheduled labor policy speech on 14 December. The
leaders hope to negotiate a compromise that would
protect their positions and prevent their unions
from being swallowed up by the government-controlled
confederation. They are prepared to call for work
stoppages of increasing duration in order to gain
their objectives.
The labor minister, who has numerous Communist
connections, reportedly advised a leader of the Com-
munist-led Workers' Federation to join the govern-
ment's proposed confederation and try to win control
of it. Nevertheless, there is no indication that
Torrijos would permit Communist control. Instead,
the confederation is probably part of the govern-
ment's effort to establish an official political
party that would be organized on a sector basis,
with representatives fro neasant. student, worker,
and professional groups.
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Czechoslovakia: The party central committee's
"economic' plenum scheduled for this month has been
postponed for a second time. No new date has been
announced officially, but a source of the US Embassy
in Prague believes that it will not convene until
20 January. This postponement suggests that the
Husak regime has not had enough time since last
April to work out its economic programs in the after-
math of a protracted period of political crisis.
A government spokesman recently announced that the
regime has decided to consider 1970 a "year of gen-
eral consolidation,," during which it will gradually
introduce a series of measures that it hopes will al-
leviate the country's political and economic ills.
Uruguay: The government has extended its ter-
ritorial waters claim from 12 to 200 nautical miles.
Only last May its claim went from six to 12 miles.
Uruguay thus joins eight other Latin American nations
that claim jurisdiction over either territorial seas,
fishing rights, or exploitation of the seabeds up to
200 miles.
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