CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: December 2, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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2 December 1970
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No. 0288/70
2 December 1970
Central Intelligence Bulletin
UN-GUINEA: The Western powers face a troublesome
situation in the Security Council. (Page 1)
USSR: The Soviets plan a larger version of their
TU-144 supersonic transport. (Page 3)
ROMANIA: Ceausescu has announced new measures to
increase agricultural production. (Page 4)
MEXICO: The new cabinet enhances the outlook for
good relations with the US. (Page 5)
GUYANA: The government and a Canadian bauxite com-
pany appear on a collision course. (Page 6)
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ANDEAN COMMON MARKET: Foreign investment issue
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UN-GUINEA: [The Western powers will face a
troublesome situation when the Security Council re-
sumes consideration--possibly on Friday--of the re-
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cent attack on Conakry.-
Statements by members of the fact-finding mis-
sion"-sent to Guinea by the Council indicate that
the mission's report will stress Portuguese involve-
ment in the raid. According to these statements,
the attack force numbered from 350 to 500 men and
consisted of two companies of regular Portuguese
troops augmented by a special commando group and
about 80 Guinean dissidents. Although white Portu-
guese were said to have taken part in the landing,
all, of the estimated 60 prisoners held by Guinea
are black 1
'he African delegate wants the "political con-
clusions" of the report to include a finding that
Portugal was guilty of aggression as defined by the
UN charter. Such language would be designed to sup-
port African insistence that the Security Council
impose mandatory sanctions on Portugal
[Although the Africans do not have sufficient
support for such extreme measures, the Western
powers will nevertheless find themselves faced with
renewed demands that all states, and especially
Portugal's NATO allies, refrain from rendering any
assistance to Lisbon that could be used against
either independent African states or indigenous
groups fighting Portugal's colonial administration.
A resolution along these lines would probably garner
at least the requisite nine votes for adoption.
Allegations that the US has furnished arms and
technical training in guerrilla warfare to Portugal
will form a significant part of the Africans' case.1
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Soviet TU-144 Supersonic Transport
Length ......................................................................... 190 feet
Cruising speed ................................................... 1,260 knots
Maximum payload ....................................... 20,000 pounds
Range (with 20,000 lb. load)........... approx. 2,000 NM
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USSR: The Soviets reportedly are planning a
larger version of their TU-144 supersonic transport
as the production model of the aircraft.
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Soviet dissatisfaction with certain capabili-
ties of the TU-144 prototype now being tested became
evident about a year ago when the then minister of
civil aviation, Y. F. Loginov, commented that his
ministry was interested in a longer-range SST with
a payload of at least 160 passengers instead of the
current prototype's accommodation of about 120.
Enlargement of the TU-144 could be achieved by
increasing the wing area slightly and lengthening
the fuselage by 10-12 feet. The first Soviet super-
sonic transport is expected to enter operational
service about 1973-74.
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ROMANIA: Party chief Ceausescu has announced
a series of new measures to implement previously
stated policies that were designed to increase pro-
duction and raise efficiency in the lagging agricul-
tural sector.
The regime had previously announced that it in-
tended to expand significantly its agricultural in-
vestments during the coming five years in the hope
of increasing output and lowering the per-unit costs
of production. Little headway appears to have been
made thus far, however, and these new measures indi-
cate that the government will not continue to toler-
ate irrational use of investment funds.
One of the major aims of the program is to
forge closer links between the more technically so-
phisticated state farms, which occupy only one tenth
of arable land, and the backward cooperatives, which
farm most of the remaining land area. Inter-coopera-
tive councils are to be organized and will be tasked
with coordinating production activities among member
cooperatives. This presumably will enable them to
increase farm production specialization and to pro-
vide for better use of the limited number of tech-
nical personnel.
Agricultural machinery enterprises will be more
closely linked with the collective farms. Remunera-
tion of workers from these enterprises will now be
related to production increases of the cooperatives
on which they operate. It is anticipated that these
workers, along with the machinery, will eventually
be absorbed into the cooperatives.
Although these measures call for a reduced role
for the Ministry of Agriculture in day-to-day pro-
duction activities, central government surveillance
over the agricultural sector will be increased.
Specialists with broad powers to oversee operations
will be assigned by the government to the coopera-
tives. Ceausescu can be expected to keep the pres-
sure on the Ministry of Agriculture to implement
these measures, which may take several years Z
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MEXICO: The cabinet appointed by newly installed
President Luis Echeverria reflects his own high stand-
ards and further enhances the outlook for good rela-
tions with the US.
Exceptionally well qualified men have been ap-
pointed to deal with Mexico's most difficult problem--
rural poverty
e agricu ure secretary,
for example, has held political office in Chihuahua
State, one of the most important agricultural regions.
He is also a rancher and cattleman. The head of
agrarian affairs, Augusto Gomez Villanueva, is a
young lawyer who headed the powerful national peas-
ants' confederation, the rural arm of the government
party.
The new minister of education, whose policies
might affect the still explosive student situation,
is a highly respected educator. Two of Echeverria's
close colleagues, Mario Moya Palencia and Rafael
Hernandez Ochoa, have been given the two ministries
identified as stepping stones to the presidency--
interior and labor.
In the ministries heavily involved with US-
Mexican relations there does not appear to be even
a token "anti-Yankee." Foreign affairs is headed
by the current ambassador to the US, Emilio Rabasa,
who is a close friend of the President. Among the
ministers concerned with trade, commerce, and bank-
ing is former ambassador to the US, Hugo Margain.
The one holdover minister is Attorney General Sanchez
Vargas, who has worked closely with his US counter-
part in the fight to control dangerous drugs.
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GUYANA: Prime Minister Burnham and representa-
tives of a large Canadian bauxite company appear on
a collision course over the government's intention
to secure control over the industry.
Burnham has publicly announced that negotia-
tions would begin on 7 December with the Demerara
Bauxite Company, a subsidiary of the Aluminum Com-
pany of Canada (ALCAN), regarding the government's
plans to secure a controlling interest in the com-
similar negotiations would take place at a later
date with the US-owned Reynolds Aluminum Company.
ALCAN representatives charge that Guyana in-
tends to make a radical change in the bauxite ar-
rangements unilaterally, but they will still go to
the meeting on 7 December. In an attempt to im-
prove its bargaining position, the company has made
it known that it believes it can find alternative
sources of bauxite, presumably from Australia.
Given the adamant. stand of both parties thus
far, the negotiations promise to be drawn out and
acrimonious. Moreover, if they are protracted or
unsuccessful, they will have an adverse effect on
the Guyanese economy, which already has suffered
this year from frequent work stoppages in-the key
sugar industry.
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ANDEAN COMMON MARKET: A draft code restricting
foreign investment has split the five members of
this regional economic grouping. Chile and Peru
favor adoption, and Bolivia is leaning toward sup-
port. Ecuador and Colombia oppose it in its present
form. Venezuela, which has been considering joining
the grouping, would be likely to decide against mem-
bership if the present code is adopted. The presi-
dent of the Atlantic Development Community Group
for Latin America, a multinational private invest-
ment company, has said that he fears that the draft
code would virtually stop the flow of forei n in-
vestment into the common market.
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