CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 28, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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No. 0127/70
28 May 1970
Centr~cl Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Laos: Vang Pao has opened a three-battalion drive
against Ban Na. (Page 1)
Burma: Efforts to counter Communist operations in
the northeast have weakened government capabilities
elsewhere. (Page 3)
West Germany - USSR: The two have apparently worked
out anguage on the border issue. (Page 4)
Lebanon: The cabinet has decided to try to induce
the fedayeen to voluntarily curb their activities.
(Page 6 )
Chile: A guerrilla training cramp has been discovered
i sn outhern Chile. (Page 7)
Venezuela-Guyana: The two have drafted an agreement
to put a 12-year moratorium on the border dispute.
(Page 8)
Communist China: Political maneuvering (Page 9)
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Chile: Copper investments (:Page 10)
Ecuador: Terrorism (Page 10)
UN-Seabeds: President's proposal (Page 11)
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Laos: General yang Pao hatio opened a three-
battalion drive against. Ban Na, but the Communists
may soon launch an attack of their awn in this
area.
The government effort to rE~take the guerrilla
base at Ban Na got under way early on 27 May, and
by nightfall irregular units ha~i moved to high
ground within about four miles of their objective.
Initial enemy resistance to the drive was light,
but apparently stiffened as the Meo forces moved
northward.
The southern region military commander, Gen-
eral Phasouk, on 26 May ordered the evacuation of
all civilians remaining in Saravane. General
Phasouk has also placed the Pak:~e and 5ouvannakhili
garrisons on full alert as a re:~ult of unconfirmed
reports hat Communist harassments may be forth-
coming.
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Burma: Government efforts to counter expand-
ing Communist operations in the northeast have
weakened Rangoon's capabilities against insurgents
elsewhere in the country.
Following Communist seizure of several ~3urmese
posts along the Chinese border this spring, gov-
ernment officials expressed Rangoon's determination
to hold the remaining border towns. The subsequent
dispatch of reinforcements to the northeast, however,
has weakened the government's position in central
Burma, including the Irrawaddy Delta. This has been
the traditional haunt of the Communist insurgents,
who were scattered by military sweeps beginning in
April 1969. The Communists have reacted to the eas-
ing of government pressure by increasing the size
of their roving bands. A rebel force numbering sev-
eral hundred raided a delta town in early May.
In northern Shan State the Communist dry sea-
son offensive has begun to abate somewhat, but the
Communists are now makin fora s into new areas.
ommunist re e s rai e t e gem mining
center of Mogok in April, and threatened highway
traffic well outside their normal area of oper-
ations. Military escorts now accompany official
travelers on the Mandalay-Maymyo road because of
insurgent activity.
The military hierarchy may be drawn together
more tightly by what it sees as an increased Com-
munist threat. This group has recently been sub-
jected to strains by disclosures of profiteerin
amon desk-bound officers in Rangoon.
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West Germany - USSR: The two countries have
apparently worked out compromise language on the
border issue that would permit opening formal nego-
tiations on a renunciation of force agreement.
Foreign Minister Scheel said i.n Rome on 25 May
that the two sides have agreed to regard the borders
of a.ll European states "today and i.n the future" to
be '?inviolable" as they exist on the day ari agree-
ment is signed. This would include the OdE~r-Neisse
line and the East - West German border. At the same
time, both parties would stipulate that "treati.es
and agreements concluded earlier by both sides'" are
not affected.
Under this draft formulation, the West Germans
may maintain that they have held to their basic posi-
tion. They have avoided.t:he uses of the woad "r_ecog-
nition" demanded by the Soviets, preserved their
postwar treaty obligations, and protected allied
rights pending a final settlement. In addition,
Scheel said Bonn has tied its acceptance of the Euro-
pean borders to Soviet acc:eptanc;e of a letter :recog-
nizing the West German right to pursue reunification
by peaceful means.
Scheel said the SoviE~ts have been told that a
Soviet - West German agreement