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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.
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,0 _ Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03159090 §EGJtE'7'/ CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY REPERCUSSIONS TO THE DEATH The death of Enrico Mattei presented the Fanfani govern- ment with the difficult prob- lem of choosing a new chief for ENI, Italy's powerful state pe- troleum holding company. Fan- fani's appointment of 72-year- old ENI Vice President Marcello Boldrini--reportedly a Fanfani man--is apparently an interim arrangement which gives the prime minister time to iron out differences within his Christian Democratic Party over the ques- tion of a permanent replacement when Mattei's term expires next spring. Meanwhile the company's domestic political influence may be somewhat reduced and its ac- tivities abroad temporarily less aggressive than in Mattei's day. The government will, however, almost certainly consider it in the national interest to try to carry on and even expand Mattei's basic policies at home and abroad. Mattei's controversial operations in the petroleum field at home and abroad pri- marily aimed at securing cheap fuel for Italian consumption. His spectacular successes and his personal contribution to Italy's international prestige made him a public hero. Nomi- nally a Christian Democrat, he was interested above all in ENI, for which he brought sup- port by multifarious political contributions,reportedly laying out generous subsidies to par- ties ranging from the Communists to the neo-Fascists. It is not clear whether these subsidies are going to continue. The promotion of Boldrini and the appointment of Eugenio Cefis to replace him as vice president put ENI in the hands of two of Mattei's chief col- laborators and economic tech- nicians. Cefis has been spoken of as Mattei's alter ego and acted for Mattei in setting up deals with Argentina, Com- OF ITALY'S OIL CHIEF munist China, and the USSR. The USSR in 1961 furnished some l4 percent of Italy's total crude oil imports. Disagreements over who is to be the power behind--or over--ENI can be expected to make further trouble within the government coalition. The press continues to speculate as to whether, as had been the case with Mattei every time his term ran out, ENI's new director is to be reappointed for another three years. Premier Fanfani's opponents within the Christian Democratic Party are charging privately that he is trying to enlarge his personal power by staffing ENI and other government agencies with men subject to his control. The conservative Liberal Party --a member of the parliamentary opposition--is calling for the breakup of the ENI complex by separation of its subsidiaries engaged in oil exploration, natural gas distribution, dis- tribution of petroleum deriva- tives, and oil and gas refining. Government spokesmen have stated, however, that there is no intention of breaking up ENI or changing its basic pur- pose. It may, however, be di- vested of certain interests, such.as textiles and nuclear power. There are some indica- tions that the government may intend to reduce the power of Mattei's successor and assume more direct control of the com- pany's activities. This would be done by placing ENI under the new planning commission for coordination of government eco- nomic enterprises headed by Budget Minister Ugo LaMalfa-- who, like Mattei, was one of the architects of Italy's ost- war "economic miracle." FEQEEEEET sew9 62 WEEKLY nmvr.NOV Approved for Release: 202‘070s/00 003159090 Page 19 °f 24 \
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