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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 a-§v /went? CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMARY Although the Soviet Foreign Ministry statement on 17 March charging that US actions in South Vietnam are a serious threat to the peace and security of the area is the strongest Soviet diplomatic move yet on South Vietnam, it falls short of calling for the international conference which both Hanoi and Peiping have indicated prefer. In a covering the UK as a cochairman 1954 Geneva conference china, the USSR merely they note to of the on Indo- asked the British to join in demanding that the US immediately stop its interference in the internal affairs of South Vietnam. The Soviet reluctance to call for a conference at this time is probably related to Khru- shchev's expectation that a summit meeting is in the offing and his desire to deal now with what he considers to be higher priority problems, such as Berlin and Ger- many. Moscow may fear that insisting on a conference to take up alleged US interven- tion in Vietnamese affairs might lead to a refusal by the President to take part in the more important confer- ence. The North Vietnamese and the Chinese are not re- strained by this consideration; the Chinese, in fact, fear So- viet-Western meetings which do not include them and would prefer, if possible,to sabo- tage such meetings. E:::::::::1 (bX3 (b)(3) GUATEMALA President Ydigoras, just entering the fifth year of his six—year term, faced the most serious crisis of his adminis- tration during the week begin- ning 13 March. Communist-led Students clashed repeatedly with the police, whose inept- ness and brutality led to more than 20 deaths and several hundred wounded before the army was called in to restore order on 16 March. Widespread public repudi- ation of Ydigoras for permitting the police excesses led to strong demands for his resigna- tion--supported by some business and professional groups--and strikes by a number of labor unions. Key army leaders, under heavy pressure from in- side and outside the military, gave serious consideration to removing him. The unqualified support for Ydigoras offered by such officers as Colonel Jose Luis Lemus, chief of the air force, overcame the wavering of certain 23 Mar 62 WEEKLY REVIEW Page 13 of 22 Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167
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