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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.
‘*7 H L ____ _______m iii-ii Approved for Release: 2019/08/20 C02066866 ’ \_/' The Colombian Cpngressional Elections With the approach of the 16 March Colombian con- gressional elections, the first since the --overthrow of the Rojas dictatorship lastMay, the political situation is be- coming increasingly restless. A recent increase in violence and banditry resulting in more than 300 killings a month in the provinces, a week-long student strike in Medellin, and a three-hour riot in Bogota between moder= ate and rightist Conservatives over the selection of a unity presidential candidate presage further violence dur- ingthec-electi0ns.~_. The government is still considering the Suspension of elections in areas of the greatest unrest and has banned all political meetings or demonstrations before 17 .March. . The congressional elections will be carried out in "conformity with the plebiscite which overwhelmingly ap- proved the constitutional amendment establishing a parity of Liberals and Conservatives in the government for 12 years‘, The conduct of the elections will to a degree fore- cast the possibility of bipartisan political cooperation and prospects for political stability. Junta member General Ordonez has admitted that the presidential election sched- uled for 4 May could conceivably be .'postponed if the political parties cannot agree on a joint presidential candi- dto I ale» _ .-/‘) ‘ 14 Mar 58 CENTRAIL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 14 . 4 ,, . l [Mi Approved for Release: 2019/08/20 C02066866 = i
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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.