CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 1, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

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No. 0130/71
1 June 1971
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
INDIA-PAKISTAN: India's problems in caring for a
claimed four million refugees from East Pakistan
are mounting. (Page 1)
SOUTH VIETNAM: Communist forces have sharply in-
creased their military activity. (Page 2)
JORDAN-FEDAYEEN: The latest round of fighting has
extended into i.ts third day. (Page 3)
CHILE: Harvest worries (Page 4)
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INDIA-PAKISTAN: India's problems in caring for
a claimed four million refugees from East Pakistan
are mounting.
One hundred thousand refugees entered at one
point in West Bengal over the weekend, and an equal
number is reportedly close behind. Cholera has
taken the lives of about 160 refugees--mostly new
arrivals--during the past three days. Medical sup-
plies are inadequate, and health officials fear that
the disease may reach severe epidemic proportions
during the heavy monsoon rains that are expected in
June and July. Indian officials are also disturbed
by accounts of the continuing persecution of Hindus
in East Pakistan and by reports that the Pakistani
martial law authorities are destroying deeds to
property owned by Hindus who have fled to India.
A report reaching the US Embassy in Islamabad, mean-
while, indicates that the government has offered
free land to any tribesman from West Pakistan who
wishes to settle in the East wing. The land offered
for settlement is almost certainly the former prop-
erty of refugee Hindus.
The Indians continue to apply pressure for in-
ternational action to relieve the refugee flow, and
on 29 May Indian External Affairs Secretary Banerji
told the US charge in New Delhi that unless the in-
ternational community acted "immediately," it would
be difficult for his government to continue to fol-
low a "correct policy." The Indian Government seems
resigned, however, to accepting at least some of the
refugees as more or less permanent guests and has
reluctantly decided to transfer some 50,000 of them
from West Bengal to Madhya Pradesh state in the in-
terior.
Press reports over the weekend indicate that
the Pakistani Government plans to establish 19 ref-
ugee reception camps in 11 border districts in East
Pakistan to screen Bengalis who wish to return home.
With reports of continued persecution in the East
still circulating, however, it is unlikely that
many refugees will take advantage of the facilities.
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SOUTH ''VIETNAM: Communist forces are carrying
out another of the r periodic sharp increases in
military activity.
The action during the past few days has been
generally similar to that occurring during enemy
attacks in March and April, with the northern half
of the country hardest hit and South Vietnamese
forces bearing the brunt of the fighting. The sev-
eral dozen Communist shellings were mostly light,
but stiff enemy ground assaults caused damage in the
central highlands, the A Shau Valley, and along the
northern coast. Rockets struck Da Nang, and a large
explosion in a government building rocked downtown
Saigon.
South Vietnamese forces report killing several
hundred enemy .troops in especially hard-fought ac-
tions in the highlands and the coastal districts of
Quang Nam Province, two key areas where the enemy
has been active throughout the spring campaign. The
latest enemy attacks put still greater pressure on
the already hard-pressed pacification program in
those areas.
Heightened Communist activity will probably
continue for a few more days. Intelligence on enemy
plans for this summer, however, is sparse. In re-
cent years the enemy's spring campaign has been fol-
lowed by a summer lull in the fighting during which
the Communists prepared for action in the fall.
This year, however, there are some signs that they
may intend to maintain substantial pressure in the
highlands well into the summer.
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JORDAN-FEDAYEEN: Incidents continued in north-
ern Jordan yesterday as the latest round of fighting
between the army and the fedayeen extended into its
third day.
In Cairo, the Voice of Fatah has charged that
King Husayn has personally been supervising army
operations against the fedayeen in an attempt to
liquidate the commando move t completely before
he makes a trip to the US.
The US defense attache reports that the local
residents in areas of northern Jordan are agitating
for the government to force the fedayeen out of their
locales. Relations between the villagers and the
fedayeen have deteriorated, and this has been the
cause of some of the incidents of the last few days.
The attache further reports that some army officers
are beginning to urge a final push against the fed-
ayeen in northern Jordan and also a foray into Syria
to attack the Palestinians' Yarmuk Brigade, which is
composed of deserters__from the Jordanian Army.
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CHILE: The Allende administration is becoming
inc ar''si gly concerned about the next harvest sea-
son. Although serious food shortages are not ex-
pected this year, only about 30 percent of the area
normally planted to winter wheat has thus far been
seeded. The Communist Party has advised Allende to
slow the agrarian reform process, but the minister
of agriculture is opposed to any reduction in the
pace of expropriations. Allende's recent public
criticism of illegal land seizures by peasants,
however, was intended to restore some measure of
confidence along Chilean landowners.
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