Documents / FOIA release
The Central Intelligence Agency issued this Top Secret Central Intelligence Bulletin, a daily intelligence brief, on 8 April 1958. It reports that Communist China budgeted $185,000,000 for foreign aid in 1958 and describes reported Indonesian government plans to attack Padang and Bukittinggi in Central Sumatra. It also covers Israeli-UAR tensions over the Lake Hula drainage project and UAR reconnaissance flights, EOKA bombings on Cyprus, French nuclear testing plans and a Peruvian cabinet reshuffle. It contains no UFO material.
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II. ASIA-AFRICA ## Situation in Indonesia Indonesian Government plans for a coordinated air, sea, and land attack on Padang and Bukittinggi in Central Sumatra are reported still going forward. Dissident leaders in Bukittinggi admitted further government advances, but Lt. Col. Hussein claims that his forces in Lubukdjambi on the Padang -Palembang road have given an excellent performance despite harassment from the air. He is planning guerrilla attacks in the rear of government forces proceeding westward on this road. Hussein is also reported planning to defend areas on the Central Sumatran west coast until forced to retreat and then to begin guerrilla warfare from the nearby mountains. Reports of an impending Padang attack are given credibility by the withdrawal of paratroopers from Medan in North Sumatra and commandos from Central Sumatra for "future tasks." The Indonesian army chief of staff on 1 April designated Balikpapan, Borneo, as the staging area and advance command post for government operations in North and Central Celebes. The post will be under the command of the second assistant chief of staff and will be moved to Donggala on the Celebes west coast as soon as a bridgehead is consolidated. back several miles from Donggala and that the local situation for the present "is quiet."
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 12 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.