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Central Intelligence Bulletin- 1958/03/14

Central Intelligence Agency · 1958-03-14 · 25 pages · text from the file's own layer

The Central Intelligence Agency's Central Intelligence Bulletin for 14 March 1958 is a classified daily intelligence brief on world events, approved for release in 2019. It covers Soviet calls for a foreign ministers' meeting before a summit, Soviet cargo ships possibly bound for Indonesia, and strained Yugoslav-Soviet relations. It also covers unidentified submarine contacts in the western Atlantic, a planned amphibious attack in Central Sumatra, and Middle East disputes. Other items are British troop cuts in Germany and Colombia's elections. It contains no UFO material.

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An amphibious attack on the Padang area of Central
Sumatra 1s set for l7 March
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II. ASIA.-AFRICA
The attack will be launched immediately
north of Pariaman, a town approximately 30 miles north
of Padang. \
Although Djakarta army leaders hope for a quick
defeat of the Sumatrans and are counting on defections
among the dissidents, they believe they will need three
months to gain com lete control over major centers and
towns in the area. Hp \
army
leaders expect at least some of dissident leader Hussein's
supporters to retire to the jungle and to begin a long peri-
od of guerrilla warfare.
President Sukarno, meanwhile, has charged that the
Central Sumatran rebellion was being "manipulated by
foreign powers" in an effort to "drag Indonesia, or part
of it, into one of the world blocs."\ \
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.