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The CIA's Directorate of Intelligence issued this Weekly Summary, No. 0369/70, on 8 May 1970. It covers events through noon on 7 May. The Far East section deals with the allied operations into Cambodia, Hanoi's cautious response and the government in exile Sihanouk formed in Peking. Other items cover Soviet military aid, the Sino-Soviet talks, Jordan, Dahomey, Guatemala and Brazil, and a special report looks at Cuban support for subversion in Latin America. Many pages are withheld, and the summary contains no UFO material.
Approved for Release: 2023/03/28 C03154550 ARMS CONTROL TALKS Recess The US—USSR draft treaty to limit the use of seabeds for mili- tary purposes remains the best hope for substantive progress at the 1970 Geneva disarmament talks, which recessed last week after more than two months of frus- trating discussion of the key issues. Following several weeks of intensive review in the cap- itals, the 25 conferees will re- sume their talks on l6 June in an effort to show some success before the fall session of the UN General Assembly. In their revised version of the treaty, the superpowers took into account most of the criti- cisms raised during the past year. Dissatisfaction with the Moscow- Washington positions on some maritime issues could, however, become so strong as to prevent a Geneva endorsement of the treaty Sweden heads a lengthy list of nations that want the text to include a reference to "appro- priate international procedures" as one method of verifying com- pliance with the treaty prohibi- tions. Moscow opposes such an addition, regarding it as an opening that could result in an international regime that would also govern peaceful uses of the ocean floor. A meeting this week at Montevideo of nine Latin American states that claim a 200- mile limit of their territorial waters could determine the ex- tent to which that subject will further muddy the treaty's pros- pects. There has been no movement toward agreement on either of the principal options for controls on chemical and biological weap- ons (CBW): the Soviet draft CBW convention and the British draft BW treaty. Most of the Geneva conferees continue to favor action that would deal with both CW and BW, but they do not regard the Soviets‘ verification mechanism——appeal to the UN Se- curity Council to investigate suspected violations—-as an ade- quate response to their concern. The Italians have secured the creation at Geneva of an in- formal nine-nation working group on general and complete disarma- ment (GCD), whose members include NATO, Warsaw Pact, and nonaligned nations, but exclude the three nuclear powers represented at the talks. The working group is unlikely to offer a substantive GCD proposal soon. Moscow re- cently indicated a revived inter- est in GCD, but it is believed that the Soviets would not want such activity to divert attention from the primary issues before the conferees—-CBW and the sea- beds treaty. Another disarmament subject, a comprehensive ban on nuclear tests, probably will not be ac- corded much time until the direc- tion of the SALT talks becomes clearer. Should the Geneva con- ferees be unable to show substan- tial progress in any arms control area, there may be demands for a convening of the UN Disarma- ment Commission, an unwieldy entity certain to serve as a focal point for grievances against the superpowers. T§ETER§$IL Page 17 W/EEKLY SUMMARY 8-May 7U Approved for Release: 2023/03/28 C03154550 b3
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 78 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.