CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 192
• Publication Date: August 25, 1972
• Content Type: BULL

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INTELLIGENCE
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Central Intellzence Bulletin
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25 August 1972
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No. 0204/72
25 August 1972
Central Intelii~ence bulletin
VIETNAM: Saigon commits more troops to the Que Son
Valley. (Page 1)
USSR-AUSTRIA: The Soviets accept Austria's closer
relations with the EC'. (Page 2)
BANGLADESH: Public confidence seems to be slipping.
(Page 3)
USSR-EGYPT: Soviets resent Cairo's criticism (Page 5)
PANAMA: Coming elections could embarrass Torrijos
regime (Page 5)
ISRAEL-SYRIA: Tel Aviv irritated over incidents
along the Israeli-Syrian line (Page 6)
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5X1 C
VIETNAM: Additional government troops have
been moved to Quang Nam Province to strengthen the
campaign to recapture the Que Son Valley.
A South Vietnamese Army regiment has joined the
government's task force at Fire Support Base Baldy
and a renewed effort to retake positions lost to the
Communists over the weekend was scheduled to get
under way yesterday. A sharri enemy attack on ter-
ritorial forces northwest of Baldy on 23 August and
the us(..; of heavy artillery against populated areas
in the coastal area, reportedly including a rare
shelli:?j of the provincial capital of Quang Tin Prov-
ince, may be intended to mask, further infiltration
of Communist regulars into the coastal lowlands.
In the northernmost provinces, fighting has
slackened scmewhat in and around the provincial cap-
ital of Quang Tri, and enemy artillery shellings
dropped off sharply on 23 August. Ground action
remains light in the Hue area.
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There are signs that harder fightin is ahead
in some relativel quiet areas, however
a buildup of enemy forces is
under way in western kleiku Province, near Duc Co.
Elements of the North Vietn;: