CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A009700220001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 14, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

17JE3
Approved For Rase 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T0097597002 -Secret
25X1
DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
DEPT OF STATE review(s) completed.
Top Secret
44
Approved For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO09700220001-0
 25X1 Approved For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO09700220001-0
Approved For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO09700220001-0
 Approved For Ro&a
14 March
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
Britain - South Arabia: London trying to come
to terms with Adeni nationalist groups. (Page 3)
25X
25X1
25X1
Brazil: Costa e Silva's inauguration expected
to provoke student strikes and demonstrations.
(Page 5)
25X1
East Germany - Poland: Mutual assistance treaty
(Page 6)
Nigeria: Plans of Eastern Region (Page 7)
Approved For Relea3e 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975A0097001220001-0 25X1
 Approved For Rele 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79TOO975A009 0220001-0
,-? u
~Q Jn Tri
\QUANG TRI (.:.' I uanT IeT EPis ilCt
1- f~ Huey hu Thu District
PHu Qu0c FN ~P-NG l.a GT~
~ UIN H
'?
~
fZ"I ANGf \\ VINH
alr
rCHUONG
GULF OF J THIEN.4 XUYEN
BINH
TUY
SIAM 9 AC LIEU d R '
,Q~$nN~ei
QUANG *':'
NGA!':.?''.'?
~ BINH
HUANA
HANH
HOA
25X1
25 50 75 1005lIes
25 0 5 160 K Iomelere
Approv d For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO09700220001-
14 mar i't UE.NTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Map
`'~ .. a Nan,
J :g
( QuA-G NAMAn , CORPS
f '_lUANG TIN hp La
25X1
 Approved Forj,R1
*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EST)
The Political Situation in South Vietnam: TRepre-
sentatives from the ruling Directorate are scheduled
to meet with the Constituent Assembly today to try to
resolve the remaining areas of controversy in the
draft constitution:
[Several members of the Directorate, both mili-
tary and civilian, are reportedly quite dissatisfied
with certain articles, particularly those relating to
military participation in politics, the power of the
legislature to remove the cabinet by a three-fourths
vote, the weak military advisory council, and the as-
sembly's authority to act as a legislature until one
is elected.]
he Directorate's decision whether or not to in-
voke its power to revise the assembly's final version
of the constitution will probably depend on the outcome
of these discussions. It is not yet clear whether the
Directorate is willing to compromise its views. For
its part, the assembly may hope in these talks to
barter the broad legislative power it has claimed for
Directorate con ssions on some of the other contro-
versial articles
The Military Situation in South Vietnam: In what
may be an intensified effort to disrupt the govern-
ment's pacification program, the Communists re-
cently penetrated district level installations in two
South Vietnamese provinces and inflicted significant
casualties on their defenders.
In Quang Nam Province near the provincial cap-
ital of Hoi An, an estimated two Viet Cong companies
attacked a national police station that, together with
similar posts throughout the country, has been en-
gaged in intelligence support of the Revolutionary
14 Mar 67
25
25X1
Approved For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO0970022QO01-0
 Approved For Rya
Development program. After overwhelming the
garrison's defenders, the attackers released a
number of persons being held by the police for
questioning.
The second foray was directed against the dis-
trict headquarters at Phu Thu, southeast of Hue in
Thua Thien Province. An estimated 80 guerrillas
breached the headquarters' defenses and killed most
of the garrison's 50 defenders, Phu Thu is the
second district in the province to come under severe
enemy pressure. Quang Dien District has been sub-
ject to renewed Communist military activity for sev-
eral months.
Recent information gleaned from captured docu-
ments and prisoner interrogations has confirmed
long- standing reports of friction in Communist ranks
between native southerners and infiltrated northerners.
The evidence indicates that the problem may be com-
paratively widespread in units where Viet Cong and
North Vietnamese Army elements are integrated.
The frictions appear to be based on traditional
regional differences, on differences in professional
military training, and on the fact that northerners,
because of age and superior military experience, are
often placed in positions of command over southerners.
None of the information gathered so far suggests
that the friction has as yet impaired the combat ef-
fectiveness of Communist military units.
14 Mar 67
Approved For Releas4 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975A~09700220001-0
 Approved For F%Wa
Britain - South Arabia: London is still trying
to reconcile its differences with Adeni nationalist
groups before the British leave South Arabia next
year.I
The British hope to arrange a meeting with the
leader of one of these groups. Al-Asnag, leader of
the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen,
has indicated that he is willing to meet'with the Brit-
ish. There is no guarantee that a meeting will
actually take place. Even if it does, there is little
promise that this nationalist group will come to
terms with the British or with the South Arabian
Federation, to which Britain intends to turn over
the government next year. A reconciliation with
the Adeni nationalist groups is fundamental to the
British effo t to establish a viable postindependence
government
Meanwhile, London is considering giving re-
sponsibility for internal security in part of Aden to
the South Arabian Federation. It is not likely to
be able to bring a reduction in terrorism, but the
British believe the transfer of authority should be-
gin while they retain ultimate control.
14 Mar 67 3
Approved For Releasip 2003105119 : C1 - 009700220001-0
 25X1 Approved For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO09700220001-0
Approved For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO09700220001-0
 Approved For F 'a
*Brazil: [Federal police are expecting student
demonstrations and strikes throughout Brazil today
and on the 15 March inauguration day of President-
elect Costa e Silva
[Students may also attack government coopera=
tion in 'education with USAID. Student leaders were
able to whip up widespread demonstrations against
the government last fall; however, many top student
agitators were recently rounded up by police, com-
promising some of their organization and reducing
their capability for coordinated action
Military units have already been alerted to pos-
sible disturbances on or before 15 March by some of
Brazil's many small, dissident extremist groups.
Warnings of possible action against US personnel
and installations have also been received. The ex-
tremist groups have some limited capability for vio-
lence or terrorism. I
14 Mar 67
25X1
25X
Approved For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975Ag09700220001-0
25X
 Approved For R94wa4e 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975A0097p0220001-0
NOTES
East Germany - Poland: The East German party
boss, Walter Ulbricht, arrived in Warsaw today to
sign a mutual assistance treaty with Poland. This is
part of an effort to prevent East German isolation and
to counter Bonn's recent diplomatic initiatives in East-
ern Europe. The East Germ ns plan to sign a similar
treaty with the Czechs soon.
(continued)
14 Mar 67
Approved For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975Ap09700220001-0
 Approved For ReieasIe 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO097p0220001-0
Nigeria: Eastern Governor Ojukwu, at a press
conference in Enugu on 13 March, said Eastern Ni-
geria would secede only if attacked or blockaded.
On 10 March he told the US consul that he
would not unilaterally carry out the decisions on
greater regional autonomy reached last January if
Gowon would publicly commit himself to putting
them into effect within a reasonable time. On 12
March Ojukwu flew to Benin City, presumably to
win Mid-Western support for the East's position
from Governor E'oor.
14 Mar 67
Approved For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO09700210001-0
 T*'Cfeir ReleS 2003/05/19: CIA-RDP79T00975A00%10220001-0
Top Secret
Approved For Release 2003/05/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO09700220001-0