STAFF NOTES: WESTERN EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00608R000500040019-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: June 11, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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Timor Independence Talks Set . . . . . . . . . . 1
Azores Separatists Plan Demonstration. . . . . . 3
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West Germans Complete Plans for Guillaume
Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Timor Independence Talks Set
Representatives from the Portuguese govern-
inent and Timorese political parties will meet
in Macao later this week to talk about a decoloni-
zation plan for Portuguese Timor.
Lisbon radio announced that the talks will
begin Sunday, but other reports suggest that
preparatory discussions may take place earlier.
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The negotiations in Macao may be complicated
by recent political developments in Timor. The
largest Timorese party, a coalition of two
pro-independence groups publicly dissolved
on June 1, prompting an exchange of bitter
political recrimination.
The more radical of he two factions may
boycott the Macao talks. The pro-Indonesian
party, the smallest of the Timorese political
groups, has agreed to attend, after refusing
earlier to participate in decolonization talks.
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President Suharto evidently is confident
that a satisfactory solution will be reached
in the Macao talks. General-Ali Murtopo, who
has been charged with overseeing the decoloniza-
tion procedure for the Indonesians, believes the
Portuguese will arrange matters so that Timor
is eventually incorporated into Indonesia.
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If the
Macao talks rea up witnout ng a
settlement, Indonesian concern about Timor
will be quickly reawakened.
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Azores Separatists Plan Demonstration
Azorean separatists apparently are plan-
ning another demonstration, this time on Terceira
Island where the US air base is located. The
timing of the demonstration is uncertain,
although today or Friday are being considered.
Such a demonstration, particularly if it
were to become violent, could put the US in
a difficult position. The separatists are
short of arms and might attempt to seize
weapons on the US base. Lisbon, on the other
hand, might want to use the base to land troops
from the mainland.
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Plans are nearing completion for the
trial of former Brandt aide Guenther Guillaume,
whose arrest last spring on espionage charges
led to then Chancellor Brandt's dramatic
decision to step down as head of the Bonn
government. West German authorities expect
the trial to disclose no new information
embarrassing to Brandt, although there may
be some political fallout when prominent
political personalities appear as witnesses.
The date of the trial--originally set
for June 24--may have to be postponed because
of the illness of one of the key members
of the prosecution team, but West German
authorities are confident that they have
a strong enough case to convict Guillaume.
Prosecution legal experts have determined
that the material passed by Guillaume to
the East Germans falls within the category
of high treason as defined by the West German
constitution. Guillaume is expected to receive
the maximum sentence of from five years to
life imprisonment.
It is not clear, however, just how strong
a case the West German authorities have against
Guillaume's wife, who also faces espionage
charges. There is some evidence that she
was involved in transmitting information
to the East German Intelligence Service.
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Neither government nor opposition leaders
expect the trial to provide any political
bombshells, although both the anti-government
press and the conservative opposition parties
are almost certain to use the occasion of
the trial to rehash criticism of Brandt and
of the Social Democratic-led government in
general. Conservative party leaders in Bonn,
however, do not expect to derive much additional
political capital out of the Guillaume affair.
Brandt's resignation last May and, more recently,
the announced early retirement in late August
1975 of Guenther Nollau, the much-criticized
chief of the West German counter-intelligence
service, should further reduce the political
impact of the Guillaume affair
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