CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 12, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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No. 0244/70
12 October 1970
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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CONTENTS
CAMBODIA: The Communists are continuing to harass
government forces along Route 6. (Page 3)
LAOS: Government forces have registered gains in
the north. (Page 5)
USSR-SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee claims that the
Russians have expressed interest in using facilities
in Singapore's shipyards. (Page 6)
BOLIVIA: General Torres has established leftist-
nationalist policy guidelines for his government.
(Page 7)
USSR-IRAN: A new trade agreement ensures continuing
Soviet participation in Iran's economic development.
(Page 8)
BERMUDA: The reserve constabulary has been called
up and-British troops alerted after a week of arson
and looting. (Page 9)
GUYANA: Jagan protest (Page 10)
RHODESIA: Economic controls (Page 10)
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Current Situation
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CAMBODIA: CThe Communists are continuing to
harass elements of the government's multibattalion
task force strung out along Route 6J
On 10 October, for the fourth consecutive day,
enemy forces--estimated at several hundred men--
attacked Cambodian Army positions on Route 6 between
Tang Kouk and Prakham. Four government soldiers
were killed, and 42 were wounded; the enemy lost six
killed. No new significant ground attacks.developed
against the column yesterday, however. Despite the
continuing intensity of enemy pressure against the
column, the task force commander still believes that
the situation is well in hand, principally because
of his air and artillery superiority
n the Phnom Penh area, a Cambodian Army bat-
talion located at Moat Krasas, some six miles east
of the capital, came under mortar and heavy-weapons
fire throughout the night of 9-10 October. Although
the action may have been intended to draw attention
from the festivities surrounding the government's
declaration of Cambodia as a republic, it may also
portend an increase in activity by an estimated
1,500 enemy troops who,
have been reported in the area. ere
this size has deployed so close to Phnom Penh.
is no other and evidence, however, that a force of
(Elsewhere in the country, Communist forces
launched a series of shelling attacks over the week-
end against government positions in and around Siem
Reap city in the west, while in the east, Kompong
Cham city, along with nearby Tonle Bet and Prey
Totung, came under enemy harassment.)
The attacks in the Kompong Cham area may be
the 1iarbinger of heavier ground actions to come.
Several major elements of the Viet Cong 9th Division
have recently converged at the Chup rubber lanta-
tion lust east of om on Cham c t
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