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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. 4 …from radical members of his cabinet to work out a solution of the Katanga problem, has…
  • p. 7 …fall--he again indicated a willingness to work out an agree- ment with the West on…
  • p. 15 …The two sides have ap- parently worked out a schedule of daily meetings, but there is…
  • p. 17 …conference activity and has no desire to work ac- tively to resolve the present impasse. This…
  • p. 20 …tion and Ydigoras may have diffi- culty working with Congress. A continuing problem of considerable importance…
  • p. 23 …step in and force Israel to stop work on the diversion project before the situation deteriorates…
  • p. 30 …essential to the country's future to work with the United States. During this same period…
  • p. 34 …form of increased transfer payments from Turks work- ing abroad and direct tax rev- enues from…
  • p. 35 …Nearly all the mines now being worked are fairly accessible to ports or markets. It appears…
  • p. 36 …The peasant population, while docile _% '.and hard-working, is conserva- tive and resistant to change. There…
Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167
THIS MATERIAL CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECT-
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TITLE 18, USC, SECTIONS 793 AND 794, THE TRANSMIS-
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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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