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Current Intelligence Weekly Summary

Central Intelligence Agency · 1962-03-23 · 42 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

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  • p. 3 …speech was intended to re- assure the West that Moscow is still interested in a nego…
  • p. 7 …It would cover the status of West Berlin, free access, and other "important postwar problems"--such…
  • p. 8 …Moscow is apparently in- creasing its harassment of West- ern ground access routes to Berlin in…
  • p. 9 …special US Army battle group from West Germany to West Berlin. Since that time, local US…
  • p. 10 …systems of the Soviet Union and the West be supplemented by a test-detec- tion system…
  • p. 17 …While Souvanna claims that this cur- tailment of talks with the West is designed merely to…
  • p. 24 …had a more neutral attitude toward the West than Saud, and in the past he has…
  • p. 28 …On the other hand, West Germany and the Netherlands--supported by the United States--contend that…
  • p. 34 …Aid from the US and West Germany is ex- pected to offset about $75 mil- lion…
  • p. 36 …tourist industry in Turkey, but, as a West German adviser on tourism has recently pointed out…
Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167
THIS MATERIAL CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECT-
ING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES
WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE LAWS,
TITLE 18, USC, SECTIONS 793 AND 794, THE TRANSMIS-
SION OR REVELATION OF WHICH IN ANY MANNER TO
AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.
The Current Intelligence Weekly Summary has been prepared
primarily for the internal use of the Central Intelligence
Agency. It does not represent a complete coverage of all
current situations. Comments and conclusions represent the
immediate appraisal of the Office of Current Intelligence.
Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167

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