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This is the Central Intelligence Agency Office of Current Intelligence's Current Intelligence Weekly Summary for 9 November 1962, a secret periodical of intelligence appraisals. Much of it covers the Cuban missile crisis: Soviet missile equipment being loaded onto ships in Cuban ports, IL-28 bombers still in Cuba, and Khrushchev's moves to hold together Soviet bloc support. Other sections cover the Sino-Indian border conflict, Laos, Yemen, the Congo, European elections and Ne Win's Burma. It contains no UFO material.
“Indian Air Force”1 page
Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03159090 /sEe1zf1*/ CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY THE SINO—INDIAN BORDER CONFLICT Small-scale patrol action and artillery exchanges have characterized Indian and Chinese military activity since Peiping's initial thrusts paused some ten days ago. Both sides seem to be preparing for at least one more military bout this fall, but relative posi- tions are not likely to change significantly. In Ladakh, India's abandon- ment of Daulat Beg Oldi has left control of the Karakoram Pass to the Chinese; New Delhi is concentrating Indian defen- sive efforts farther south near its threatened base at Chushul. In the northeast, Indian forces have given no new ground. In Sikkim, opposite the Chumbi Valley, and in northwestern Uttar Pradesh, they have been strengthened because of reported Chinese buildups across the border. New Delhi is carefully watching Chinese actions in the Chumbi Valley--an area where there are neither border dif- ferences nor fighting--as a gauge of Peiping's intentions with regard to expanding the conflict. Within India, Nehru's government is making every ef- fort to recoup its prestige and to capitalize on the surge of patriotism evoked by the Chinese threat. A broadly based nation- al defense council has been formed; private Indian wealth is being marshaled; militia- type organizations are being formed; army enlistments are rising; and the Communist Party’ nationalistic stance has been welcomed. Krishna Menon's enemies have seized the occasion to force Nehru to oust the con- troversial Menon from the government. Internal security measures have been tightened against resident Chinese nationals, and the government has arrested several prominent Communist Party members who oppose the Indian party's support of New Delhi. Parliament began its winter session ten days early on 8 November and India's economic planners have begun to assess the impact of recent events and greater defense expenditures on the remaining three and one-half years of the Third Five-Year Plan. On the diplomatic front, Nehru has again rejected Moscow's suggestion that the two sides call off the fighting and begin nego- tiations on the basis of Peiping's mutual withdrawal proposals. He is certain to reject Chinese rep- etition of the same bid. The Chinese still appear confident, however, that their military advances and continued diplomatic pressure will eventual- ly bring India to negotiations on Peiping's terms. On 6 November the Chinese released the text of a note to New Delhi which reaf- firmed support for their proposals of 23 October. India's insistence that the Chinese withdraw to the positions they held prior to 8 September was once again labeled "absolutely unacceptable." The note also called "especially serious" US arms aid to India and New Delhi's continuing recon- naissance flights over Tibet. In a letter to Nehru made public on 7 November, Chou En-lai claimed that China was not trying to force any unilateral demand on India through its recent military successes. He pointed out that the "line of actual control" men- tioned in Peiping's proposa1s-- from which a mutual withdrawal would then take place--is the line shown on Chinese maps when the same proposal was made three years ago, and argued that this "in the main" coincides with the McMahon Line in the area of the North East Frontier Agency. (bX3) 9 Nov 62 WEEKLY REVIEW Page 8 Qf 24 Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03159090
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