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This is the Central Intelligence Agency's Current Intelligence Weekly Summary of 23 March 1962, a secret digest from the Office of Current Intelligence covering world events. It reviews Soviet foreign policy on Berlin, the Berlin air corridors, disarmament and a nuclear test ban. It also covers Algeria, Argentina's elections, the Congo, Laos, South Vietnam, Guatemala, food rationing in Cuba and Middle East tensions. Special articles assess Brazil under Goulart and Turkey's economic prospects. It contains no UFO material.
“The Times”16 pages
Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167 /saenfi CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY _,-_ ,-\ SOUTH VIETNAM Government operations in South Vietnam during the past week inflicted some casualties on the Viet Cong by strafing and bombing but failed to trap sizable forces, In Quang Ngai Province, where two Viet Cong groups totaling more than 1,800 had been reported,the first major helicopter troop movements in the northern part of the country'wereconducted last weekend; government ground forces made contact with only one enemy company northwest of the town of Quang Ngai. In the south- ern provinces, Viet Cong military action continued at its normally high level. Throughout the country, however, Communist activity of all types dropped during the week ending 12 March to 406 incidents from the pre- vious week's high of 552. There aretentative reports of enemy airdrops in an area southwest of Pleiku, near the Cambodian border. On the night of 19-20 March a joint US - South Vietnamese radar station at P1eikupicked1q>unidentified aircraft apparently making air» drops in the vicinity of Route 19; the following night the :station noted additional planes,ac companied by fighters, making drops in the same area. The aircraft are said to have left in the direction of Cambodia. Such flights would constitute the first firm evidence of bloc airdrop support. South Viet- namese officials apparently accept the validity of the reports. Hanoi continues to show a desire for an international conference on Vietnam and to exhibit some impatience with the USSR's failure to move in that direction. In a letter to the Geneva cochairmen on l6 March, North Vietnam's foreign minister called on them to hold consultations amongthe countries concerned. North Vietnamese editorial comment on the letter pointed out that it was nearly the twentieth time that Hanoi had found it necessary to report to the cochairmen on US activities in the South. Nfifihm ékalk Zhzénana \ w W, wxswum = ' H.. C...“ ‘ U9I /} .....l;$Tf:,, \ J " ’\ D2 Nang. , ,,_» . Q ' ~ / ., ‘ Quang Nam M3 7; \ " -BBC U80 G Ma|o1 areas of Viet Cong concentvahon (C 7 I‘ E MW ..¢_,_ Railroad ‘ ‘ ———— Road i (b)(3 O SYATUTE MH.ES '5 32335 gens? 23 Mar 62 WEEKLY REVIEW Page 12 of 22 Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167 if I ,. Communist Guerrilla Actiwty X ma...“ Q)‘ ' _-' ,QuangTri
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 42 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.