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Current Intelligence Weekly Summary

Central Intelligence Agency · 1962-11-09 · 34 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY
9 November 1962
as its allies’ indifference to its basic interests vis-a-vis
India, Pakistan considers that India's acceptance of Western
military aid will tend to undermine the major advantage that
accrued to Pakistan from its alliances with Western powers.
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DEVELOPMENTS IN LAOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 11
Right-wing leaders in Vientiane are taking steps to
instigate a formal investigation by the International Control
Commission of charges that North Vietnamese armed forces
remain in Laos. Souvanna, anxious to prevent the erosion
of his neutralist military support, recently visited Phong
Saly in an effort to mediate a factional dispute between
two of his key lieutenants. The North Vietnamese ambassador
presented his credentials to King Savang on 8 November, a
move which may result in the severance of relations between
South Vietnam and Laos. The Soviet airlift into Laos has
been suspended at least for the moment. \ \
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THE SITUATION IN YEMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 12
The Yemeni conflict is threatening to embroil Saudi
Arabia and Jordan in open warfare against the UAR, which has
made air and naval attacks on Saudi villages serving as
supply points for the Yemeni royalists. The Saudi Government
has broken diplomaticrelations with the UAR and may call
on Jordan for military aid in accordance with the alliance
the two countries recently concluded. Both governments,
in continuing to aid the Yemeni royalists, are risking
disaffection within their own military establishments--
where opinion is reported sharply divided over the in-
volvement in Yemen. Yemeni royalist forces have made a
few minor gains in northwest Yemen, but it is unlikely
that they will be able to penetrate far into republican-held
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CONGO DEVELOPMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 14
Convinced that Tshombé has no intention of complying
with the UN plan, UN officials are preparing to adopt a
more forceful policy. They may intend some move to cut off
Katanga's mining revenue. The central government is stepping
up military pressure on Tshombé in northern Katanga, where
Congolese forces are reported to have attacked Kongolo.
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POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND
I Q I I I I I O C I I I I I I I I I O Q I I U I
A series of elections and constitutional talks is under
way in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. In Northern
Rhodesia, elections on 30 October failed to provide any party
with a clear mandate, and African nationalists may resort to
violence rather than attempt to promote their program in the
new legislature. Talks on the Nyasaland constitution which
are scheduled to open in London on 12 November probably will
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