CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: April 24, 1971
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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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24 April 1971
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24 April 1971
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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LAOS : Government forces are making headway east of
the -capital. (Page 3)
USSR-US: Economic officials are to visit the US.
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SOUTH AFRICA: The security service has survived
judicial investigation. (Page 5)
HAITI: Situation report (Page 6)
PERU - COMMUNIST CHINA: Trade (Page 6)
IRELAND: Problems for prime minister (Page 7)
AUSTRIA: Election (Page 7)
UGANDA-SUDAN: Border situation (Page 7)
GUINEA: Bauxite agreement: (Page 8)
ISRAEL-EGYPT: Cabinet ministers on Suez Canal
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LAOS: Government forces in the Luang Prabang
area are making headway in their campaign to clear
Communist units from the hills east of the capital.
Irregular troops appear to have consolidated
their hold on three positions on the high ground
overlooking the Luang Prabang airfield and have
substantially extended their control of Route 4
along the Mekong River. Government battalions
seized Ban Pha-O on 21 April and by the 22nd had
reached the junction of the Mekong and Nam Suang
rivers. Yesterday irregular units crossed from
Pak Suang to the northern bank of the Nam Suang
and reoccupied the King's Farm which had been in
enemy hands since 21 March. A second government
task force was reported to be closing on Pak Suang
from the east where irregulars have had consider-
able success during the past week in encounters with
North Vietnamese troops and have captured weapons
abandoned by the enemy.
Substantial numbers of Communist troops remain
in this area, however, and it is possible that enemy
forces may yet strike hard at the government battal-
ions.
North Vietnamese units are known to have taken
significant losses during.the past week, particularly
in the area southeast of Pak Suang. Their abandonment
of weapons is uncharacteristic and suggests that they
have been subjected to heavy pressure. It is too
early to conclude that the threat to the Luang Prabang
area has been dissipated, but for the moment the
Communists appear to be falling back to safer ground.
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USSR-US: Moscow is hastily attempting to ar-
range a visit to the US next month by high-ranking
economic officials.
Only on 22 April did the Soviets begin to make
arrangements with the US for the visit, which they
hope to start on 5 May. In addition to deputy
ministers of foreign trade and state planning, the
14-man delegation will be composed largely of rep-
resentatives of the motor vehicle and machine build-
ing industries.
The visit probably concerns Soviet attempts to
obtain advanced technology and equipment for a heavy
truck manufacturing complex to be built near the
Kama River in the central USSR. The delegation
hopes to meet with officials of US corporations with
which the Soviets have conducted preliminary nego-
tions or taken soundings through intermediaries.
In addition, the delegation may also have the
objective of encouraging US businessmen to lobby
for relaxation of licensing controls on the export
of high-production US machinery to the USSR. This
could also explain the timing of the delegation's
visit inasmuch as a US machine tool group is sched-
uled to travel to the USSR on 23 May.
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SOUTH AFRICA: The new centralized security
service has emerged relatively unscathed from a
prolonged judicial investigation.
Prime Minister Vorster has approved the long-
awaited report of the one-man judicial commission
of inquiry into state security. Vorster appointed
the commission in the fall of 1969 after the newly
formed Bureau for State Security (dubbed BOSS) had
come under heavy criticism. The South African legal
profession and judiciary, in particular, publicly
indicated their fears of new encroachments on civil
liberties under some of the legislation setting up
the bureau.
Although the com-
mission's report was submitted to Vorster in August
1970, he did not act on it until now.
The commission exonerated BOSS from many of
the charges leveled against it, approved the concept
of a centralized intelligence service, and proposed
amendments to some of the more controversial clauses
in certain legislation. Vorster has accepted all of
the Commission's recommendations and plans to seek
the legislation recommended by it.
For the past year, there has been bickering
among the security services, particularly between
BOSS and the police. The commission's report to-
gether with other recent directives from the prime
minister's office will put the police more directly
under the control of BOSS in politically sensitive
cases. This should help to minimize the politically
embarrassing aspects of heavy-handed police tactics.
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HAITI: Neither the scattered exile groups nor
opponents inside Haiti have shown signs of action,
and there is no good evidence as yet of what the
Cuban reaction will be. In the neighboring Dominican
Republic, military units remain on alert but none has
been moved to the border area; there is no evidence
of untoward official concern about events in Haiti.
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PERU - COMMUNIST CHINA: Peru plans to discuss
sales of fish meal wit _a Chinese Communist commer-
cial mission that has arrived in Lima. The mission,
which is headed by a vice minister of foreign trade,
had previously concluded a long-term trade agreement
with Chile. In addition to gaining a wider market
for Peru's large fish meal production, such a sale
or a barter for Chinese rice would support Lima's
general policy of expanding its contacts with non-
Western countries. The Peruvian foreign minister
assured the US ambassador that such negotiations
would not imply that Peru plans to recognize the Pe-
king regime or support it for admission to the UN.
The Chinese probably will use the negotiations to
make a discreet pitch in favor of establishing dip-
lomatic relations with Peru.
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IRELAND: Prime Minister Lynch is facing a pe-
riod of uncertainty in Parliament. Late this week
the opposition parties forced a vote calling for the
reversal of a government order that temporarily cut
.off certain welfare benefits. The government won
the vote, but several Fianna Fail deputies rebelled,
an almost unprecedented act in the usually disci-
plined ranks of the ruling party. In addition, the
opposition has tabled a motion of no confidence in
the agriculture minister for alleged misdeeds in
connection with the investigation of last year's
arms smuggling controversy. The government's budget,
which is scheduled to be introduced next Wednesday,
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AUSTRIA: The Socialist incumbent, 72-year-old
Franz Jonas, is expected to win tomorrow's election
for the largely ceremonial post of the Austrian
presidency. His challenger, however, former foreign
minister Kurt Waldheim, has waged a vigorous and
effective campaign, and Jonas is bucking the post-
war Austrian tradition that the president and chan-
cellor should come from different parties. The pri-
mary significance of the election will be its effect
on the calculations of Chancellor Kreisky, whose
year-old government lacks a parliamentary majority.
If Jonas does not gain a substantial majority,
Kreisky will be less inclined to use the threat of
calling new parliamentary elections to push throw h
controversial legislation.
UGANDA-SUDAN: The Uganda Government has ex-
pelled the Sudanese representative in Kampala and
rumors are circulating that clashes have occurred
along the border. As yet there is no firm evidence
to confirm General Amin's earlier charge that the
Sudanese assisted supporters of deposed president
Obote,who attempted to cross the border on 18 April.
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GUINEA: The Yugoslav Government firm, Energo-
projekt, has agreed to help prospect and exploit the
last untapped major bauxite deposit located in cen-
tral Guinea. A new firm will be established with 51-
percent ownership by the Guinean Government. In ad-
dition to carrying out feasibility and geologic stud-
ies, the firm will consider constructing an alumina
plant with a capacity of 300,000 tons annually.
The agreement appears to be patterned after
those of the Boke project--Guinea's largest bauxite
operation and considered a model for future projects--
and includes provisions for facilities to support ex-
ploitation, training programs, and a 65-35 profit
split in favor of the Guinean Government. During
the past three years Guinea has attracted substantial
investment commitments from the USSR and several in-
ternational private Western consortia in its drive
to exploit its bauxite, one of the world's largest
reserves.
ISRAEL-EGYPT: Two Israeli cabinet ministers
have publicly questioned the likelihood of an agree-
ment on the opening of the Suez Canal. Information
Minister Yisrael Galili told a student group Thurs-
day that the chances for bridging the gap between
Israeli and Egyptian proposals on the issue were very
slim. Galili, a close confidant of Premier Golda
Meir, warned against international efforts to open
the canal under conditions that would be against Is-
rael's security interests. Echoing Galili's warning,
Interior Minister Yosef Burg told a rally the same
day that he saw no possibility of establishing peace
at the Suez Canal or opening it for international
navigation.
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