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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…
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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.