CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A019600080002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 29, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

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ICELAND: Officials talk of compromise on base is-
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PANAMA: Government tries to undercut the Church.
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ICELANDt High officials have raised the pos-
sibility -manning the Keflavik base with Iceland-
ers or nonmilitary NATO personnel.
Repeating earlier assurances that no hasty ac-
tion will be taken to end present arrangements, For-
eign Minister Agustsson has told the US ambassador
that the Icelandic Government intends to remain in
NATO and to honor its obligations. He defined them
as. including maintenance and use by NATO of the
Keflavik base, but not necessarily the retention of
"foreign" (actually US) armed forces.- He admitted
that some personnel, Americans or others, would be
needed to operate the base. (In fact, it was staffed
by US civilians between 1947 and 1951.) Prime Min-
ister Johannesson has wondered if Icelanders might
man the installation.
Agustsson's remarks appear to have been prompted
by concern over the possible loss of the economic
benefits Iceland derives from the base; the airfield
is open for civilian as well as military use. He
and Johannesson may hope to reach a compromise solu-
tion that will maintain the US investment while sat-
isfying their antibase supporters and coalition col-
leagues by reducing the visibility of the US mili-
tar resence.
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PANAMA: The Torrijos government is continuing
its efforts to undermine the Church's ability to
rally public opinion on the Gallego case.
The administration reportedly has ordered the
expulsion of several priests and a group of Colombian
President Lakas is scheduled to meet with the
Pope next week,.reportedly to ask that Church agita-
tion be stopped and that the archbishop be replaced.
The regime apparently hopes that removing activist
clergy and the archbishop will halt Church pressure.
The Panamanian Church, however, is strongly committed
to uncovering the truth about the Gallego incident
and there is no indication that the Pope will accede
to Torrijos' requests. Public opinion, moreover,
continues to run against the government on this is-
sue and its current initiatives will not win it an
additional friends.
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