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This is the Central Intelligence Agency's Current Intelligence Weekly Summary of 23 March 1962, a secret digest from the Office of Current Intelligence covering world events. It reviews Soviet foreign policy on Berlin, the Berlin air corridors, disarmament and a nuclear test ban. It also covers Algeria, Argentina's elections, the Congo, Laos, South Vietnam, Guatemala, food rationing in Cuba and Middle East tensions. Special articles assess Brazil under Goulart and Turkey's economic prospects. It contains no UFO material.
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Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167 gem’? CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY FRANCE-ALGERIA French officials still expect serious trouble in Algeria, despite the absence immediately following the announcement of a cease-fire of any major violence inspired by the Secret Army Organization (OAS). These officials hope, however;"that Moslem restraint will continue and that the gradual resignation of the Europeans of Algeria to the new situation will reduce OAS capabilities. The OAS may he delaying action until the pro- visional executive is installed or some other step is taken in connection with implementa- tion of the accords. The organization appears to have adopted a strategy of harassment of the French Gov- ernment and provocation of the Moslem population rather than risk a coup attempt or a mass“ l settler uprising which could ex- pose it to destruction by the French Army and security forces. The army had notyet been faced with massive violence that would test its willingness to enforce the terms of the cease-fire agreement in the face of OAS opposition. > told a US source on l8 March that OAS documents captured last week indicated that the OAS plans to create maximum disorders in the cities in order to tie down the army so that the OAS can organize effective guerrilla bands in the interior. OAS posters which appeared in Algiers on 20 March, urging army personnel to desert and join OAS groups in the interior, his report ambitious for OAS capabilities. CTCT \1n Paris, the 1 director of De Gaulle s personal cabinet told a US Embassy officer on l8 March that if serious trouble could be avoided for about a week, the French would be "out of the woods," but various other officials told the officer they felt that many trials still lie ahead. Premier Ben Khedda of the rebels’ provisional Algerian government (PAG) has publicly insisted that the French must control the OAS, Information minister Yazid reportedly said on 18 March that he believes the French will make a genuine effort to contain the OAS, and that the PAG hopes to assist materially by collecting in- telligence on OAS activities. Ben Khedda, who greeted vice premier Ben Bella and other liberated ministers in Rabat on 21 March, will probably attempt to keep his visit as short as possible, as there are indications that both he and yew?23 Mar 62 WEEKLY REVIEW Page 6 of 22 . however; .(bX1 considered these plans too (bX3 1 ( X3) Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167
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