CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2003
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• Publication Date: June 20, 1972
• Content Type: REPORT

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No. 0147/72
20 June 1972
Central Intelligence Bulletin
VIETNAM: Situation report. (Page 1)
CHILE: General Viaux sentenced (Page 4)
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C VIETNAM: The joint statement issued at the
end of President Podgorny's three-day "unofficial"
visit to North Vietnam suggests that differences
between Moscow and Hanoi persist.
The talks were characterized as having taken
place in an atmosphere of "frankness," whereas
during Podgorny's visit last October, the two sides
reportedly reached a "unanimity of views." The So-
viets promised continuing aid and support and joined
with the Vietnamese in condemning "aggressive US
actions in Indochina," specifically the "firing on
and mining of North Vietnam's ports." Both the
promise and the condemnation, however, were couched
in relatively restrained language, did not go be-
yond previous Soviet utterances on these points,
and could not have been especially satisfying to
the North Vietnamese. Hanoi did not refer to Pod-
gorny's visit while he was in the country, and an
editorial in the army daily on the day of his de-
parture made it clear that the North Vietnamese are
dissatisfied with the results of the visit.
Prior to the visit, Soviet spokesmen in a
number of capitals spread the word that Podgorny
would ask the Vietnamese to accept a cease-fire.
In the report on the visit, however, the two sides
routinely demanded an end to Vietnamization and a
return to the Paris talks by the US. They reit-
erated their view that the Viet Cong's seven points
and the "two explanations to them" provide a "con-
structive basis" for a settlement of the Vietnam
question.
Moscow joined with the Vietnamese in hailing
the "serious defeats" allegedly being inflicted on
US and South Vietnamese forces. The only other
authoritative Soviet comment on Vietnamese Commu-
nist successes in the South came in connection with
the anniversary celebration of the "provisional
revolutionary government" of South Vietnam in early
June.
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J J In South Vietnam, the three major battlefields
are fairly quiet. North of Hue, the South Vietnamese
spoiling operation into Quang Tri Province has en-
countered only moderate resistance. Shelling of An
Loc remains at a very low level, and the South Viet-
namese 1st Airborne Brigade is being moved from there
to Saigon for redeployment elsewhere.
Smaller scale Communist military activity per-
sists in scattered parts of the country. The Com-
munists recently have become more aggressive in
Quang Ngai Province in MR-1. They shelled Nha Trang
in MR-2 on 19 June, and in MR-4, fairly heavy action
continues in parts of Kien Tuona. Dinh Tuona, and
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CHILE: Retired General Roberto Viaux has been
sentenced to 20 years by a military court for his
involvement in the 1970 plot to prevent Allende's
inauguration by kidnaping army commander in-chief
General Schneider. The plan miscarried, and Schnei-
der was killed in the attempt. Viaux probably will
remain a symbol for the far-right, but his convic-
tion may isolate him from his supporters and even
further reduce their influence in anti-government
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