CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 15, 1972
• Content Type: REPORT

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CHILE: Allende maneuvers as coup rumors spread.
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USSR: Central Committee will hear Brezhnev report
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CHILE: President Allende is stepping up his
political maneuvering as public speculation spreads
that a coup attempt is imminent.
Allende is making some progress in his attempts
to get the Christian Democrats to agree to a truce
and to enlist their cooperation against forces that
consider a coup the only solution to Chile's present
difficulties. An evident lack of public enthusiasm
and squabbles between the Christian Democratic and
National parties were the reasons for canceling yes-
terday's opposition march,
Disheartened by this setback and by the
massive turnout for Allende on 4 September, the
Christian Democrats' predilection to seek some ar-
rangement with him has been strengthened. Their
chief concern is to ensure that congressional elec-
tions will be held in March; they fear that a coup
would preclude this.
Allende is also exploiting the copper issue to
elicit nationalistic statements from opposition pol-
iticians in support of his policies. Both Christian
Democratic and National spokesmen have applauded
Allende's strong criticism of the Kennecott Copper
Corporation. Kennecott recently threatened that it
would seek to attach payments resulting from the
sale of copper to other countries from its national-
ized mines in Chile.
Allende's overtures to the Christian Democrats
are strongly opposed by his own Socialists and have
exacerbated the internal strains in his administra-
tion. While an official statement on 14 September
praised the more reasonable attitude of moderate op-
position elements, the extreme leftist miristas, who
are allied to the Socialists, are calling for vio-
lence. The mirista statement exhorts Chileans to
take to the streets to demonstrate that they will
use armed force to prevent a coup.
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News media across the political spectrum, mean-
while, are fueling the rumors that some military
move is in the offing. The widespread publicity and
the presence of high-ranking military visitors, such
as Soviet Air Marshal Kutakov, for the independence
celebrations beginning this weekend probably are add-
ing to the military's difficulties in reaching a de-
cision on whether and when they ene.
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USSR: A report by Brezhnev on Soviet agricul-
tural problems will be among the topics discussed
at the Party Central Committee plenum scheduled for
16 September.
The US Embassy
agricultural attache, however, is less sanguine over
crop prospects there and not even a bumper crop will
come close to offsetting the losses in other regions.
The Kremlin's decision to hold the Central Com-
mittee plenum on 16 rather than 18 September--the
day before the Supreme Soviet is to convene--provides
time for a thorough discussion of the agricultural
situation. This scheduling could also indicate that
the plenum will consider a number of foreign policy
questions as well.)
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