CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: May 25, 1970
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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No. 0124/70
25 May 1970
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Cambodia: Allied military operations are reducing
Communist pressure in several areas of the country.
(Page 1)
South Vietnam: Some Communist forces near Saigon
have been severely disrupted by allied operations
into Cambodia. (Page 3)
Cyprus: The government has reacted swiftly to the
latest upsurge of violence within the Greek Cypriot
community. (Page 4)
Belgium: Prime Minister hyskens is again seeking
to reconcile conflicting Walloon and Flemish inter-
ests. (Page 5)
OAS: There is concern over holding an OAS meeting
in the Dominican Republic. (Page 6)
Israel-Lebanon: Retaliation worries (Page 7)
Pakistan: Wheat (Page 7)
Laos: Military developments (Page 9)
Argentina: Disorders (Page 9)
Costa Rica: Security force (Page 10)
Italy: Demonstration plans (Page 10)
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Cambodia: Allied military operations are re-
ducing Communist pressure in several areas of the
country.
East: South Vietnamese Army troops, in their
deepest deployment into Cambodia to date, continue
to clear main roads in Kompong Cham Province, and
also are on the southern edge of the country's ma-
jor rubber plantation at Chup, where they hope to
engage elements of the 272nd Viet Cong Regiment.
The US Embassy in Phnom Penh reports that an appar-
ently uncoordinated South Vietnamese air strike on
23 May on the plantation may have caused the loss
of almost half of Cambodia's rubber production, and
will also probably result in the unemployment of
5,000 workers. West of Chup, Khmer Krom troops re-
portedly have overcome stiff enemy resistance and
recaptured the town of Tonle Bet.
Northeast: In Ratanakiri Province, the Commu-
nists again attacked the capital, Lomphat, on 23
May, but few details are available. Farther north,
government defenders at the Labansiek regional com-
mand post beat off an attack by an enemy force of
unknown size on 23-24 May. Labansiek, Lomphat, and
Bokheo have been under continual Communist pressure
in recent weeks.
South: Allied sweep operations have reduced
enemy attacks in this area, but large enemy troop
concentrations are reported east and northeast of
the capital in Prey Veng Province. Journalists
traveling from the town of Takeo to Phnom Penh re-
port that they were stopped by Communist troops
twice yesterday, but were allowed to proceed. On
the coast, press reports claim South Vietnamese
forces have pushed close to the port of Kompong Som
(Sihanoukville), and have captured a cement factory
near Kampot.
West: No significant actions were reported
during tTie weekend in Kompong Thom Province, where
some Communist troops recently were seen moving
west toward the capital..
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South Vietnam: Communist forces that normally
operate in one region just west of Saigon have been
severely disrupted by recent allied operations into
Cambodia,
These forces have relied heavily upon the se-
curity of large base areas in the so-called Parrot's
Beak, 30 miles west of the capital. Allied opera-
tions into this long-time enemy redoubt have uncov-
ered large amounts of rice and ordnance, and nearly
3,200 Communists have been killed, according to
field reports.
Prisoners captured in Communist Sub-Region 2
(SR-2), which consists of most of Hau Nghia and
northern Long An provinces, have reported that de-
spite some forewarning of allied attacks, there was
not enough time for effective countermeasures or
for an orderly withdrawal. A Viet Cong defector,
for example, stated that following an air strike his
company scattered and fled. Another defector
claimed that several other units, including the
SR-2 headquarters--at that time located in Cambodia--
were largely destroyed by the initial South Viet-
namese thrust across the border on 29 April.
These losses are unlikely to be made up quickly,
and they almost certainly will put a crimp in Com-
munist plans to harass allied units and to counter
pacification efforts in the area west of Saigon.
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Cyprus: The government has reacted swiftly to
the latest upsurge in violence within the Greek
Cypriot community.
More than 30 persons who allegedly took part
in a raid against a Limassol police station in the
early hours of 23 May have been arrested, and war-
rants are out for several more. Among those ar-
rested were several members of the police and an
army sergeant, all Greek Cypriots. Documents im-
plicating others were reportedly seized, and some
of the weapons stolen in the raid have been recov-
ered.
During the attack on the po:Lice station the
raiders, who were masked, :identified themselves as
members of the National Front, an underground, anti-
Communist group favoring union with Greece. This
organization is considered responsible for earlier
acts of antigovernment terrorism. Documents cap-
tured after the incident indicate that this action,
along with the kidnaping of two apparently rival
National Front figures, was intended to be part of
a larger campaign designed to paralyze the govern-
ment.
The Turkish Cypriot community remains unin-
volved in the squabbles among the militant Greek
Cypriot factions, which appear to be tied in with
the parliamentary elections scheduled for the Greek
Cypriot community on 3 July. Despite the govern-
ment's apparently effective response to the most
recent incident, the potential for renewed violence
remains high as rival Greek Cypriot militant groups
settle old scores.
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Belgium: Prime Minister Eyskens is indulging
in a new round of efforts to reconcile conflicting
Walloon and Flemish interests,
Seeking some show of progress before parlia-
ment adjourns at the end of June, Eyskens last week
cleared the way for enactment of long-stalled eco-
nomic decentralization measures. He agreed to in-
troduce simultaneously a bill defining the geographic
scope of future regional economic councils. This
bill would ensure that Brussels' suburban districts
remain under Flemish jurisdiction despite Walloon
majorities in many of them. The bill is a conces-
sion to the Flemish wing of Eyskens' own Social
Christian Party, which has been under pressure to
guarantee Flemish control.
Not unexpectedly, however, the party's Walloon
wing demands as its price for supporting these meas-
ures that parliament also pass two controversial
constitutional amendments. They would provide vari-
ous guarantees for Belgium's Walloon minority com-
munity and would divide ministerial portfolios
equally between the two groups. Eyskens' coalition
apparently has enough votes to pass his bills, but
not the two-thirds support necessary for constitu-
tional revision.
Eyskens has threatened to resign if his bills
are not passed. While this cannot be ruled out, he
did not step down when similar threats in the past
failed to obtain their objectives. More ominous
is the stance of his Walloon colleagues who have
vowed to leave the coalition if their proposals
fail. Eyskens will probably bend all his efforts
in the next few weeks to dissuade them from such
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OAS: Several Latin American foreign ministers
are becoming apprehensive about convening the General
Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS)
in the Dominican Republic next month.
OAS Secretary General Galo Plaza has indicated
that ministers from nine countries have already ex-
pressed serious concern about going to Santo Domingo,
but says they are unwilling to initiate any action
to change the assembly site.
Dominican opposition leader Juan Bosch has com-
plicated matters by voicing strong opposition to the
assembly and alluding to possible demonstrations in
a campaign to discredit President Balaguer. Minor
opposition groups have -joined in opposition to hold-
ing the meeting in Santo Domingo and student and
labor groups have called for demonstrations against
it. Bosch has utilized reports that many Dominicans
have been seeking political asylum to reinforce his
contention that a suitable climate for the assembly
does not exist. By Saturday, some 60 to 70 persons
had sought asylum; this may be part of a contrived
effort to embarrass the government.
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Israel-Lebanon: The Lebanese Government re-
mains ap rehensive over expected Israeli military
action.
A spokesman or the Israeli
Ministry o Foreign Affairs said yesterday, how-
ever, that there was no "build-up" on the border,
although there had been some reinforcement as a
result of the recent incidents. Nevertheless, it
is highly unlikely that the shelling of the Leb-
anese villages will constitute Israel's sole re-
sponse to Friday's fedayeen attack on the Israeli
school bus. Additional Israeli retaliation, rather
than inducing the Lebanese to crack down on the
fedayeen, will only tend to erode further the
government's ability to oppose the fedayeen.
Pakistan: The government wants half of the
one mi ion tons of PL-480 wheat requested from
the US for East Pakistan in fiscal 1971 to be a
gift. The revenue raised by selling the grain
would be used for rural development there. Rawal-
pindi plans to meet the remaining one-million-ton
foodgrain shortfall in East Pakistan by increased
shipments from West Pakistan and from other inter-
national sources, The agricultural breakthrough
in West Pakistan in 1968, based primarily on mir-
acle wheat seeds, shifted that region into a food
surplus area. In East Pakistan, however, food
production has stagnated while the population
continues to increase rapidly.
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Laos: Current Situation
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Laos: Three companies of Laotian irregulars
this weekend recaptured Site 38, an important gov-
ernment guerrilla base on the southeastern rim of
the Bolovens Plateau that had been abandoned to
Communist forces two weeks ago, Heavy air strikes
preceded the final assault, and. little enemy re-
sistance was encountered. Elsewhere in the south,
the provincial capital of Saravane--which report-
edly continues to be menaced by several enemy bat-
talions--came under a light rocket attack. No
casualties or damage were reported, however, and
no ground fighting developed in the area. The
tactical situation around Vang Pao's headquarters
in northern Laos remained relatively quiet, al-
though North Vietnamese forces overran the remain-
ing guerrilla outposts near Khang Kho, thus dimin-
ishing the government's threat to enemy positions
immediately south of the Plaine des Jarresm
Argentina: Student disorders in Rosario and
Cordoba late last week were effectively contained
by police, but the prospect of labor involvement
could spell greater trouble this week. The vio-
lent demonstrations last Thursday and Friday,
which grew out of activities commemorating last
year's bloody riots, were put down by police using
tear gas and water cannon and resulted in several
hundred student arrests. One labor group in Cor-
doba has declared this to be a "week of resist-
ance" to culminate in an "active strike" on 29
May, If other labor groups join the movement,
it could result in a replay of last year's seri-
ous disturbances that occurred when students and
labor joined forces.
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Costa Rica; The new director general for
public-security, Colonel Herrera Pinto, plans to
request an additional .17000 men for the Civil
Guard because he is concerned about increasing
Communist activity and crime in general. The
Guard, Costa Rica's only security force, now has
2,055 men, It has had to cope with a number of
illegal strikes, guerrillas along the Panamanian
border, mass demonstrations, and terrorist as-,
saults over the past two years, Herrera Pinto
believes the Guard is severely understrength and
wants to place agents at the university because
political extremism is on the rise,, Herrera ex-
pects some difficulty with the legislature., which
is prone to reflect the general Costa Rican anti-
military attitude,,, but feels that President Figueres
and the minister of public security will back his
request for additional personnel,
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