CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2003
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• Publication Date: July 12, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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No. 0165/71.
12 July 1971
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENT S
MOROCCO: An attempt to overthrow the monarchy has
failed. (Page 1)
ROMANIA - WARSAW PACT: Bucharest is girding to re-
sist further psychological pressures from its nomi-
nal allies. (Page 3)
USSR-INDIA-PAKISTAN: Moscow has intensified its
efforts to prevent a conflict in the sub-continent.
(Page 5 )
CYPRUS: The Turkish Cypriots' rejection of recent
settlement proposals leaves little room for further
progress in the intercommunal talks. (Page 6)
ICELAND: The new government formed by a center-left
coa-~l Lion plans to renegotiate the defense agreement
with the US. (Page 7)
INDIA-PAKISTAN: Diplomats repatriation (Page 9)
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e MOROCCO: An ill-managed attempt to overthrow
the monarchy on Saturday ha:~ failed, but the impo-
sition of military rule is :Likely to compound the
discontent that pervades thE~ country.
The King, who escaped unscathed from a three
and a half-hour siege at hi:~ summer palace of
Skhirat, 15 miles south of Rabat, transferred all
civil and military power to General Oufkir, the
ruthless minister of interior, who now has a free
hand to round up the insurgE~nts and clean out the
army.
The King has painted to the director
military cabinet, Brigadier General Moham
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The attackers apparently consisted only of
some 1,400 young enlisted men, students at the Non-
commissioned Officers School near Fez, about 130
miles northeast of Rabat. 'T'hey were commanded by
the school's commandant, Lieutenant Colonel M'hamed
Ababou, who was killed, and a handful of officers.
The commanders of the Kenitra, Marrakech, and Taza
military regions were also reported to be involved,
and at least one of them has been arrested.
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The rebel force attacked the palace at about
1330 local time where 500 guests, including all the
diplomatic corps, were celebrating the King's 4?.nd
birthday. Subsequently, they seized the radio sta-
tion, the palace, army headquarters, the Ministry of
the Interior, and other government offices in the
center of Rabat. At the height of this attack, the
radio broadcast an announcement that the King was
dead and a republic under a revolutionary command
council had been established. By mid-day Sunday,
loyal forces--mainly armored units and the e1itE:
shock troops--had retaken all points. except perhaps
the palace, and insurgents who had scattered thx~ough-
out the city were being rounded up. The fate of: sev-
eral high-ranking hostages is unknown.
About 200 persons, including 158 insurgents,
have been killed. Among them were the de facto com-
mander of the armed forces, the .commander of thE~ air
force, and the King's chief aide. Also dead are: the
Belgian ambassador, the minister of tourism, thE~
president of the supreme court, and the commander of
the Bendarmerie. Among the wounded were the King's
brother, the Saudi ambassador, and the minister of
youth and sports.
The press reported that on Saturday evening
groups of youths scattered through the streets of
Rabat ripping down the King's portraits and shouting
that the republic had been proclaimed. By Sunday
afternoon, however, Rabat was calm and the authori-
ties were organizing demonstrations of loyalty to
the King. There were no known disturbances outside
Rabat.
Libya immediately announced support for the in-
surgents. This has led Hassan to conclude that the
coup attempt had foreign support. The Libyans also
sent an emissary to Algiers to consult with Boume-
diene. Boumediene, however, was prompt to wire a
message of support to Hassan and to send his minister
of state, Cher'f_Belkacem, to assess the situation in
Rabat.
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ROMANIA - WARSAW PACT: The Romanian leader-
ship is girding to resist :recently increased psy-
chological pressures from :its Warsaw Pact allies.
The most recent example of Bucharest's reso-
luteness surfaced on Friday, when the party news-
p-apex Scinteia published a lengthy article that
strongly reaffirmed Romania's independent foreign
policy and, in particular, defended party chief
Ceausescu's recent tour of Asia. The article
pointedly criticized "those," (read Moscow) who try
to use an "outside forum to pronounce sentences,
to interfere in Romanian internal affairs."
The article also criticized recent Hungarian
statements--which Bucharest clearly considers So-
viet inspired--including a ".distorted" TV commen-
tary on Ceausescu's visit ?to China. The text of
the Hungarian broadcast is not yet available, but
it presumably echoed the USSR's displeasure aver
the trip. Moscow's public reaction to Ceausescu's
tour dwelt on Bucharest's alleged failure to abide
by the "consultation" clau:~e in the Romanian-Soviet
treaty of July 1970, but ~ttie dissatisfaction re-
flects a more general SoviE~t concern over increased
Chinese activity in Eastern Europe.'
Meanwhile, the media :in Bucharest have been
publishing endorsements of Ceausescu's travels in
a manner designed to demonstrate to Moscow that all
segments of the Romanian p