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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.
“The Times”16 pages
- p. 5 …spring, and the government may be unusually sensitive to
popular pressures during this time on such…
- p. 8 …Karlshorst does call the
BASC constantly to check the
time and location of Soviet
and Western…
- p. 9 …Since
that time, local US military
authorities have continued to
alert Soviet officials to the
movement…
- p. 10 …short-
ening the time before the begin-
ning of inspections. Tsarapkin
stated that "the idea of…
- p. 11 …The
timing of the launching of the
latest Soviet earth satellite
suggests that Khrushchev ex-
pected…
- p. 13 …time "leftist Social-
ist"--refused to accept the
position. Christian Fouchet
was appointed shortly after
the…
- p. 15 …The
letter may have been designed
to set the stage for some move
,
in that direction…
- p. 18 …North
Vietnamese editorial comment
on the letter pointed out that
it was nearly the twentieth
time…
- p. 19 …The Soviet reluctance to
call for a conference at this
time is probably related to Khru…
- p. 22 …off the lake
during the next few days and
Israel would not "at this time"
initiate…
- p. 23 …Its membership probably
will be changed from time to
time as factions strive for
control.
The…
- p. 26 …The regime appears for the time
being to have squelched pres-
sures by some union members…
- p. 29 …At the same time, however,
Goulart appears to have had no
clear idea of what to…
- p. 31 …The governor may have timed
these moves to embarrass Pres-
ident Goulart, his political
rival and…
- p. 32 …violence than the party
wants at this time when it is
seeking legality. The expul-
sion…
- p. 35 …Its pro-
duction was artificially stimu-
lated under the Menderes gov-
ernment, and for a time…
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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.