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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 ;EeRET/ CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY he knows it is essential to the country's future to work with the United States. During this same period, however, Goulart insisted on meeting with Cuban President Dorticos immediately prior to the Punta del Este conference, gave no sign of breaking with his pro-Communist labor allies, and replaced an anti-Communist with a neutralist as head of Brazil's politically important petroleum monopoly, Petrobras. Moreover, Goulart has taken no action against Communists in the governmental structure. lhe Return of Quadros Quadros' return to Brazil on 7 March has been generally interpreted as a challenge to Goulart. Quadros apparently hopes next October to win elec- tion to congress—-or a key gov- ernorship—-and then to become prime minister, but his long- awaited television address on 15 March was widely appraised as meaningless bombast and evoked little favorable re- sponse. Quadros, however, has on previous occasions recovered completely from seeming polit- ical oblivion, and for this reason open opposition to him in Brazil is likely to be re- strained. In a campaign for federal deputy--which he would almost certainly win because of the proportional representation system——he may generate consid- erable support from continuing opponents of the regime and from those who support the be- lief-—widely attributed to Qua- dros--that Brazil needs a dic- tatorship. V Status of Parliamentary $ystem The failure thus far of parliamentary government to take firm root was highlighted on 15 March by President Gou- lart's public request to congress to hold a national plebiscite on whether to continue the system. Goulart almost certainly con- ceived his request as an effort to blunt Quadros' effort to be- come prime minister. If prospects appear favor- able for continuing the parlia- mentary system, the entire cab- inet may resign soon, since, according to the constitution, cabinet ministers may not run for congress unless they resign at least three months prior to elections. Most of the incum- bent ministers were chosen be- cause they held seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and they can be expected to seek re- election even if their resig- nations threaten the country's political stability. Under the parliamentary system, elections to the lower house will be harder fought than previously, since this house is the source from which ministers are most likely to come and is the body with power to oust the Council of Ministers. Gains in popularity made by leftist na- tionalist forces in Brazil in recent years could be reflected in a substantial increase and possible control by this element. Foreign Relations The Goulart government, like that of Quadros, seeks to appeal to Brazilian nationalism by demonstrating that its for- eign policy is independent of US policy. Formulation of spe- cific policies appears to be in the hands of Foreign Minister San Tiago Dantas——in the 1930s a high official of Brazil's fascist Integralista party and more recently the intellectual leader of the leftist Labor PflPtY- The‘ regimefi has not gamer’ 23 Mar 62 SPECIAL ARTICLES Page 2 of 8 to '\ Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167 - ., -. ~
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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.