CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 3, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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CONTENTS
Indonesia: Sukarno holding out against rising pres-
sure for his ouster. (Page 3)
Egypt: Government believes that clash of interests
with US is unavoidable. (Page 4)
Israel-Syria: Negotiations
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Indonesia: Pressures against President Sukarno
continue to mount, but he still shows no disposition to
resign or to leave the country.
Sources close to Foreign Minister Malik report
that he assured the President on 31 January that no
action would be taken against him if he would volun-
tarily step down. Sukarno is said to have demurred.
According to Malik, evidence against Sukarno now
being collected by the attorney general is for use chiefly
in persuading the President to resign. If Sukarno re-
fuses to leave voluntarily, however, the evidence will
be used against him.
Anti- Sukarno, pro- army ranks in parliament were
considerably strengthened on 1 February by the addi-
tion of 108 new appointees, including at least 20 student
and youth leaders. Parliament makes up part of the
congress, the nation's highest policy-making body and
the only one authorized to take formal action against
the President. The government is considering the
exclusion of political party members as regional repre-
sentatives to the congress, a move that would further
strengthen the army's influence.
A large student demonstration before parliament
on 30 January called for congress to meet in special
session to remove Sukarno from office and to com-
mission an investigation of charges that he was in-
volved in the abortive coup plot of October 1965. Par-
liament is scheduled to discuss this request today and
tomorrow.
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Egypt: The Egyptian Government apparently is
becoming convinced that a major clash between US
and Egyptian interests cannot be avoided.
In a discussion on 31 January with US officials,
Vice- President Muhi al- Din said that US- Egyptian
relations were at their lowest ebb since 1952, even
worse than during the 1956-59 crises in the Middle
East. He insinuated that the present strain between
the US and Egypt was due primarily to US support
for the regimes in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which
he claimed were out to cripple, if not destroy, the
Egyptian regime. He stated flatly that the objective
of the January 27-28 Egyptian bombing of Najran in
Saudi Arabia was to bring physical and moral pres-
sure on King Faysal to stop supporting royalist activity
against the Egyptian-backed Yemen Arab Republic.
Muhi al- Din intimated that economic considerations
were also involved. He acknowledged that. the Egyptian
economic situation is not good, and that the next few
years will be difficult. While not directly mentioning
Nasir's charge that the US is waging a "war of starva-
tion, " he appeared to believe that there was some-
thing sinister in the US Government's delay in re-
sponding to Egypt's request for aid.
These remarks would seem to be an accurate re-
flection of at least one aspect of the Nasir regime's
current view of Middle East developments. It is not
clear at this point whether this attitude will result in
some new Egyptian action against Western interests.
These remarks do indicate that Cairo is not now dis-
posed to moderat those policies that bring it into con-
flict with the US.
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Israel-Syria: Israel and Syria failed again yester-
day to make any progress in negotiations over farming
rights in the demilitarized zone, but another meeting
is planned for next week. Israel charges, and UN
officials agree, that Syria had tried to go beyond the
farming issue in raising the problem of the zone's
political status. Local UN officials, nevertheless,
are preparing a report that places much of the blame
for the recurrent border trouble on Israel's claim
to sovereignty over the zone--a claim which con-
tradicts the 1949 armistice agreement,
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE
The United States Intelligence Board on 2 Feb-
ruary 1967 approved the following national intelli-
gence estimate:
NIE 27.1-67, "Spain: The Succes-
sion Problem and Prospects for
Change in Foreign Policy"
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