CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2003
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• Publication Date: July 13, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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13 July 1967
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
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Arab States - Israel: Continued Arab division over
Israel policy. (Page 3)
Burma - Communist China: Ne Win resisting Chi-
nese pressure but trying to avoid diplomatic break.
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Soviet Bloc - Arab States: Bloc meeting (Page 6)
Nigeria: Stalemate in fighting (Page 6)
Hong Kong - Communist China: British troops used
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Congo (Kinshasa): Mercenaries break out (Page 7)
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Arab States - Israel: Radical and moderate Arab
states remain divided over whether to move toward a
settlement with Israel.
Algeria and Syria are still the firmest opponents
of any show of moderation. Boumediene's visit to
Damascus ended yesterday with a statement, broad-
cast by Damascus radio, indicating the two governments
are intent upon "continuing the people's struggle... in
a steadfast and revolutionary spirit. "
Boumediene returned to Cairo, presumably to
give Nasir a report on the Algerian-Syrian meeting
and to argue further against convoking a full- scale
Arab summit meeting. The Algerians reportedly have
strong misgivings about a summit because they fear
King Husayn and other moderates would form the major-
ity there.
Egypt has favored a summit meeting, but Nasir is
unlikely to support it with much vigor now in the face
of Algerian and Syrian opposition. Iraq probably will
now refrain from active support of such a meeting.
The Jordanians, now faced with the virtual impos-
sibility of obtaining a unified and relatively moderate
Arab position--or even a summit meeting to discuss
the question--have indicated that they will continue to
try to influence Egypt and Iraq, with whom Jordan has
defense agreements. Eventually, however, Husayn
apparently will have to decide whether, having exhausted
the possibility of unified Arab action, he can safely move
unilaterally toward a settlement with Israel. He will
have to weigh the extent to which this would involve re-
newed active hostility on the part of Arab radicals toward
his regime.
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Burma - Communist China: Ne Win is continuing
quietly but firmly to resist pressures from Peking
while trying to avoid a diplomatic rupture.
In a note handed to the Chinese Foreign Ministry
on 11 July, Burma categorically rejected Peking's
charges that the recent anti-Chinese incidents had been
instigated and directed by the Burmese Government,
but asserted that an investigation was being conducted.
Nationwide demonstrations and rallies against both
Peking and the Burmese Communist Party are continu-
ing in Burma. Most demonstrations appear to be govern-
ment-sponsored and carefully controlled. Curfew hours
have been relaxed in Rangoon, but government orders
against unlawful assemblies have been extended another
two weeks.
China's pressures so far have been confined to
violent demonstrations in front of the Burmese Embassy
in Peking, diatribes against General Ne Win's "fascist
regime, " vocal support for the Burmese Communists,
and implied threats to cut off economic assistance to
Burma. Unless Peking shifts to a policy of subversion
and infiltration or offers major material assistance to
antigovernment elements in Burma, Burmese leaders
are unlikely to re- evaluate their international outlook.
The Sino-Burmese conflict has generated unprec-
edented popular. support for the Ne Win regime and
momentarily has diverted popular attention from the
nation's growing economic problems. There are no
clear indications whether the Burmese Government will
take advantage of this opportunity to modify its "Burmese
Way to Socialism" and initiate basic economic policy
changes.
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NOTES
Soviet Bloc - Arab States: The meeting of the top
Communist leaders in Budapest on 11-12 July was
largely a re-enactment of the 9 June conference in
Moscow. The communique issued at the end of the
meeting promised continued consultations on the Middle
East, indicating that further meetings are contemplated.
While it did not signal any new bloc policy initiatives
on the Middle East, an effort may be under way to de-
velop coordination within the bloc in the supply of
economic aid and military materiel to the Arab States.
*Nigeria: Federal and Biafran forces appear to be
stalemated along the northern border. Biafran Gover-
nor Ojukwu told the US consul in Enugu that the
federal attack appeared to be "running out of steam. "
Press reports on 12 July, however, indicate a renewed
attack to take Nsukka may be under way. Meanwhile,
federal plans to establish a beachhead on the Biafran
coast using commercially owned ships as troop trans-
ports are causing considerable alarm among the pre-
dominantly British skippers. They do not want to be
put in the position of seeming to be mercenaries and
reportedly would only carry troops as far as st in
areas in the Mid-West.
Hong Kong - Communist China: Yesterday, for the
first time in the present crisis, British authorities
employed troops against the Communists in Hong Kong
proper. The troops assisted the police in raiding a
leftist union headquarters which was directing the riots
that have plagued the colony for five days. This de-
termined action probably presages further moves to
neutralize the Communist leaders who have been operat-
ing from the relative safety of leftist-controlled build-
ings.
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*Congo (Kinshasa): Rebellious mercenaries re-
portedly left Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville) in a
convoy of 27 trucks late yesterday and headed south.
They may be trying to reach Katanga Province, but
they could turn east toward Bukavu and the border.
The ease with which they broke thropgh army lines
suggests that recent government claims of the extent
of army control in Kisangani were exaggerated,
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