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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.
Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03159090 _ iui Wm? gnaw?’ CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY FRENCH NATIONAL De Gaulle's opponents have not succeeded in putting up a i coalition slate for the 18 No- * vember election to the French National Assembly, but they are confident of eliminating many ; Gaullist candidates in the run- off vote of a week later. De Gaulle again assailed "the l parties of the past" in his 7 ‘ November call for "political , renovation," but he continues to avoid any clear identification with the Union for a New Republic (UNR). Under French electoral law, in constituencies where no candidate gets a majority on the first ballot there is a second runoff ballot decided by a plurality. Candi- dates receiving 5 percent or more of the vote on the first round remain eligible for the 5 runoff. In metropolitan France, l where 465 seats are at stake, 2,367 candidates have filed, an l average of five per seat. The four overseas departments and the territories will elect 17 deputies. Nearly all incumbents are running again, as well as many former deputies who were defeated in the Gaullist landslide of 1958. Only the Communist Party has candidates in nearly every constituency. The UNR has at- tempted to present a candidate against each of the 280 deputies who voted to censure the POmpi- dou government. The broad anti-Gaullist coalition envisaged by the parties which censured Pompidou ELECTIONS will not materialize on the first round. Deals to refrain from entering competing candi- dates have been made by two or three of the anti-Gaullist parties in only a few depart- ments. The full effect of the opposition to De Gaulle is therefore expected to be felt on the second ballot, when relatively weak candidates will be under pressure to with- draw in favor of those most likely to defeat the UNR as- pirant. This tactic is ex- pected to cut UNR representation drastically, inasmuch as about 70 of the UNR incumbents won in 1958 only on second ballot plu- ralities. In a few constituen- cies, however, it will also favor Communist candidates likely to receive more than a third of the votes cast in the first round. There is general agreement the Communists will PARTYSTRENGTHSIN 7 FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DISSOLVED OCTOBER ‘I962 UNION FOR A NEW REPUBLIC ‘I73 D ‘P690000 6‘; ‘<1 moepsuoswrs D541 /04 ¢ (‘Mr O00 Iys 121 5/V]-6.47‘/C *9) SCICIALI 0) STS ED 39‘° 480 SEATS uNAr""““ CUMMUMSTI ID NOTE: The outgoing assembly had Two vacancies. The elections on l8 uncl 25 November will Fill all 482 seofs. gpnzf 9 Nov 62 WEEKLY REVIEW Page l7 of 24 Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03159090
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 34 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.