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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.
Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY little difference between the Stalinists and the regime. Thus the Stalinists may still be able to mount an effective campaign of resistance within the party apparatus which could affect the August party congress. Zhivkov's de-Stalinization drive is also faced with other potential problems. De-Stalini- zation was discussed in December and January in the Writers‘ Un- ion, a source of dissidence from 1956 to 1958. At these meetings several prominent writers who had figured in the earlier dissi- dence appeared to be again call- ing into question the role of party direction in literature. The regime appears for the time being to have squelched pres- sures by some union members to review policy since 1956; al- though such a review would re- dound against Chervenkov, it would also cast the regime MONGOLIA: KHRUSHCHEV'S ADVOCATE IN ASIA Without so much as an ideo- logical nod toward Peiping, Ulan behind the Soviet position in Moscow's feud with Communist Chi naL Mongolia is the only Asian Communist state to do so; North Vietnam equivocates, while North Korea's Stalinist Kim Il-sung cautiously shows a preference for Peiping. Over the past few months, Mongolia has displayed its pro-Soviet stand by attack- ing the Albanians, openly criti- cizing the Chinese, and launch- ing an imitation de-Staliniza- tion campaign against Marshal Choybalsan, who headed the Mon- golian state and party from the 1930's until his death in 1952. Bator has aligned itself solidly Addressing the party's cen- tral committee in late January, Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolia's premier and party first secre- tary who himself was a Choybal- san protege, charged that the cult of personality had led to unjustified mass repressions against "honest" party, state, and military officials and "even against ordinary citizens." The plenum adopted a resolution for "complete liquidation" of Choy- ba1san's harmful influences, and in late February the marshal's name was removed by decree from the industrial combine in Ulan Bator and from the national uni- 23 Mar 62 WEEKLY REVIEW Page 20 of 22 Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167 versity. Mount Choybalsan also will be renamed.. The attack on personality cultism is not without hazard for Tsedenbal. Several years ago the Mongolian politburo was torn by a power struggle during which Tsedenbal found denigration of Choybalsan being turned into criticism of his own policies. This struggle culminated in 1959; the more nationalistic members in the politburovmre purged,and Tseden- bal emerged in firm control. Mindful of those events, Tseden- bal took pains to warn the cen- tral committee last January that close watch would be kept for anyone who might try to use the attack on Choybalsan as an excuse "to throw doubt on the correctness of party policy." In his role of Asian advo- cate for Khrushchev, Tsedenbal charged the Albanians with "mali- cious, slanderous attacks" on the Soviet party. Announcing that criticism of the Albanians was "absolutely correct," Tseden- bal stated, "We cannot agree with the reservations on this ques- tion which, for instance, thew delegation of the Chinese Com- munist party made at the Soviet 22nd party congressJ' K::::::::j in an unfavorablelight. K::::j (bX3) (b)(3
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 42 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.