CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A021900080002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 19, 1972
• Content Type: REPORT

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CHILE: Tense relations between Communists and ex-
treme leftists may be near breaking point. (Page 5)
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ZAIRE: Party congress will formalize Mobutu's com-
plete control. (Page 8)
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EGYPT-IRAQ: Sadat will visit Baghdad (Page 9)
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CCHILE: Tense relations between the Communist
Party and extreme leftist elements may be near the
breaking point.
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Communist leaders have told President Allende,
that the Move-
ment of the Revolutionary Lett ) plans to set
off a general upheaval this weekend, assassinating
Allende and putting the blame on the rightist op-
position. The MIR plan is said to call for simul-
taneous attempts to incite violence in southern
Chile so severe that army troops would have to be
sent there from Santiago, leaving the capital vul-
nerable to an uprising. The Communists claim they
will leave the government if Allende does not take
immediate action to control the MIR and extremists
within his coalition who are determined to precip-
itate violence.
Infighting between the cautious Communists
and the proponents of more revolutionary policies
has risen sharply in recent weeks. Violent inci-
dents and public recriminations have occurred al-
most daily during the past week. The Communists
apparently have seized on, and possibly embroidered,
the alleged MIR plot in order to impel Allende to
crack down on the extremists, whom they see as
their chief rivals for power.
The extremists have made it, clear they are
bent on precipitating a showdown with the advocates
of compromise. In their view, only drastic measures
will reverse the deterioration in the government's
position and consolidate the power of the left.
Allende, well guarded and forewarned, will
take every precaution to avoid civil disorders that
would increase the pressures on him from extremists
on both the right and the left. Army units in
Santiago and southern Chile reportedly are on the
alert.
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ZAIRE: The coming national congress of Zaire's
official political party, the Popular Movement of
the Revolution (MPR), will formalize President Mo-
butu Sese Seko's complete control over the govern-
ment.
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will reaffirm t e party's status as the country's
"supreme institution." The congress is then ex-
pected to grant the party the power to enact laws
without National Assembly ratification, and to give
the party authority over the executive, judicial,
and legislative branches of government. These pow-
ers automatically devolve to Mobutu as head of the
party. The high point of the congress may be its
declaration of Mobutu--elected to a seven-year term
in 1970--as president for life. Rumors to that ef-
fect have been widespread in Kinshasa in recent
weeks and have not been discouraged by government
officials.
Although civilian support for the MPR's polit-
ical supremacy seems assured, resentment within the
army could become a major problem for Mobutu. In
recent months some senior army officers have become
uneasy over the party's intrusion into virtually
all institutions in Zaire--the most recent being
the Roman Catholic Church--and the officers believe
the army may be next in line.
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EGYPT-IRAQ: President Sadat will visit Ba h-
dad soon, Possibly as early as this weekend, L_ I
Both countries re-
cent y have been trying to improve relations, which
for many years have been characterized by abusive
propaganda and threats of subversion. Much of the
impetus behind this move comes from the Soviet Union.
Moscow is trying to foster closer relations between
Egypt, Iraq, and Syria in order to counter the Con-
federation of Arab Republics, which never has re-
ceived the USSR's endorsement. Similar attempts in
the past to improve Egyptian-Iraqi relations gen-
erally have failed to achieve any lasting effect.
Moreover, Sadat's new moves toward the Iraqis are
bitterly opposed by his Arab confederation partner,
Libyan Premier Qadhafi, who is generally hostile
to Baathist regimes,
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