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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.
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(bX3) bX3) Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY Z3 March 1962 increasing pressure from radical members of his cabinet to work out a solution of the Katanga problem, has threatened to expel the UN by late April if no rogress is made d to seek aid outside the UN framework, F af (bX3) LAOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 11 Phoumi’s resistance to a coalition government on Souvanna Phouma's terms has reached the point where he has refused even to consult with Secretary Harriman in Bangkok, Prospects for progress toward a settlement have also been dimmed by the insistence of Souvanna and Souphannouvong on another meeting of the three princes. With the exception of brief heavy shelling of Nam Tha bv enemy rces, military action remains light. \ if 0 0 0 u 0 0 0 0 n 0 0 0 u 0 0 0 0 Q a 0 0 I Government forces conducted the first major helicopter troop movements~in-the northern~part¢of»thercountry iust week, but failed to trap sizable Viet C0ng forces. alet Cong military action continued atzihighlevel, and there are tentative indications that bloc ;airdrop»support may have begun. North Vietnam continues to call for an inter- national conference on Vietnam. The USSR, however, in its statement of l7 March and its covering note to the UK as 1954 Geneva cochairman, stopped short of calling for a con- ference, requesting a joint appeal for an end to US "inter- ference" in South Vietnam, \ \ 0 o O 0 a n a 0 n o 0 a 0 n 0 0 0 u 0 u o n a u Pa President Ydigoras, just entering the fifth year of his six-year.term,faced the most serious crisis of his admin- istration during the week beginning 13 March. Communist- led students clashed repeatedly with the police, and there were more than 20 deaths and several hundred wounded be- fore the army was called in to restore order on 16 March. Public demands that Ydigoras resign led key army leaders to give serious consideration to forcing him to do so, By 20 March, order had been restored in the capital and the im- mediate crisis appeared to be passing. Ydigoras, however, still faces a difficult situation, including continuing uerrilla activity in the mountains north of the capital . 0 o n 0 0 0 u 0 0 0 o o 0 0 0 o 0 n PEUOD PROBLEMS IN CUBA Stringent rationing became effective in most parts of Cuba on 19 March. Cuba must import about 30 percent of its basic foods, and although the bloc now provides most of these imports, the amounts are smaller than formerly supplied by the US. Cuba's 1958 level of per capita food consumption was considerably higher than the Latin American average and there is still no immediate prospect of widespread hunger or malnutrition, but further disruptions of its normal con- $umPti°H Patterns are likely. The 1962 sugar!mmvest;is ex- pected to be no more than 4,500,000 tons, or about two thirds of the 6,800,000 tons harvested in 1961. see“ BRIEFS Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167 age (bX3) (bX3
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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.