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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.
_ i Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C031_59090 H §1aeaE¥w CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY AUSTRIAN GENERAL ELECTIONS In Austria's parliamen- tary elections on 18 November, the People's Party is likely to maintain and possibly increase its slight dominance over the Socialists, with whom it has shared power in a two-party coalition since 1945. The trend in recent municipal elections in Austria has favored the People's Party--and, to a lesser extent, the Communists--at the expense of the Socialists. There have been few genuine campaign issues, since foreign afi- fairs is largely taboo because of Austria's carefully preserved neutrality, and the economy is Austria's basic pro-Western orientation. The unusually large number of new voters is a variable factor of some importance, but the two major parties are ex- pected to share almost 90 per- cent of the vote, as in 1959. The US Embassy at Vienna an- ticipates the People's Party will retain or slightly enlarge its one-vote margin over the Socialists in the Nationalrat (lower house). The small right- of-center Liberal Party may slightly increase its current extraordinarily prosperous. K:::::::j (bxg) Both the major parties agree on the nation's single most impor- tant foreign policy objective: that Austria must press its case AUSTRIAN NATIONAL RAT LOWER HOUSE VOTES - I959 ELECTIONS for association with the European .7*EE Common Market. Consequently, personalities have played a major role in the campaign--which has been sur- prisingly bitter, considering that neither party wishes to . PEOPLE'S PARTY 79 socmusr PARTY 7a '-°"'°“ 1,953,935 , break up the coalition. The “5“A" Em“PAuvaSocialists have called for an A ‘m ‘“‘“ K ' The Communist Parry‘: 142 578 votes were lnsufficneni to gwe If Yepmsenlufion in the House. one-man rule in fiscal matters, mm,accusing him of blocking labor's legitimate wage demands. Klaus is generally regarded as the People's Party's eventual heir apparent to the well-liked, but maladroit Chancellor Gorbach. The People's Party has attacked Vice Chancellor Pittermann, charging that he used his recent trip to Moscow to promote trade with the bloc and that he advo- cates a form of "economic neu- trality" inconsistent with eight-man representation. The even smaller Communist Party, which failed to get a single seat in 1959, is given a better- than-even chance to win a seat in a Vienna district-which would qualify it for two or three additional seats in the proportional re ' the vote . y£en*E1~/ 9 WWFYT V I'IT.1\’7'I'1-sin Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03159090 Page 21 of 24 (b)(3
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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.