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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 ,5 )$EGR'ET/ CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY of its movement across the Helmstedt-Berlin Autobahn and lacked personnel to complete the processing. The same day, the Soviet controllers at Marien born, at the opposite end of the autobahn, cleared an inbound con voy of the same size after an hour's delay, with the warning that in the future they would insist on advance written noti- fication. The practice of notifying the Soviets of Western military movements was begun on an ad hoc basis last August to facilitate the transfer of a special US Army battle group from West Germany to West Berlin. Since that time, local US military authorities have continued to alert Soviet officials to the movement of convoys of eight or more vehicles. The Soviets ap- parently are seeking to extend this practice to all military movements on the autobahn. Disarmament and Test Ban In his 15 March speech at the Geneva disarmament confer- ence Gromyko tabled a plan for general and complete disarma- ment in the form of a draft treaty. The plan is largely a rehash of the September 1960 Soviet proposals presented to the UN by Khrushchev. The only significant new element is the point that there should be no veto in the control organiza- tion. Soviet leaders probably calculate that their ostensible renunciation of the veto will have a favorable impact, par- ticularly on the nonaligned powers. Gromyko also formally ex- pressed Soviet willingness to discuss the USSR's 26 Septem- ber "partial" disarmament meas- ures, implementation of which allegedly would decrease inter- national tensions, strengthen confidence between states, and promote final agreement on gen- eral and complete disarmament. He singled out the "partial" proposals calling for creation of a nuclear free zone in Cen- tral Europe and a nonaggression treaty between the NATO and Warsaw Pact powers——proposals more related to the German and European security issues than to disarmament. In a 20 March private con- versation with a US delegate, a prominent member of the Soviet delegation said that the "main areas of possible agreement" at the conference are on these is- sues: nontransfer of nuclear weapons, a NATO - Warsaw Pact nonaggression treaty, an Afri- can nuclear-free zone, a test ban, and outer space. The Soviet press has given little publicity to Secretary Rusk's presentation of the US disarmament program. A 19 March Pravda article, however, dis- torted the US proposal for a 30-percent reduction in the number of vehicles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and of major conventional armaments in the first three years. Pravda claimed that it was ac- companied by a demand for cre- ation of a 100-percent far—flung system of international control. The Soviet press line has been that while the USSR presented concrete proposals to achieve general and complete disarma- ment, the US advanced "only" an unclear outline. Jasmin? 23 Mar 62 WEEKLY REVIEW Page 3 of 22 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.