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Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000169 TOP SECRET scheduled through 7 January. Most of these flights continue to be scheduled to the Vang Vieng area, suggesting Communist intentions to retain this strategic area either as a blocking position or as a staging area for a possible future attack on Vientiane. Detailing a long series of alleged acts of intervention in Laos by the United States and its Asian allies, Hanoi issued a lengthy memorandum on 5 January apparently intended to answer recent Western charges of Communist intervention. The memorandum also "deemed it necessary to emphasize" that a reactivated ICC should deal only with Souvanna Phouma as the "legal government of Laos." On 3 January Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov, in a discussion with the British ambassador, took the position that Souvanna's consent was a prerequisite to reactivation of the ICC. (Page 6) (Map) ### III. THE WEST **Dominican Republic:** The Dominican UN delegation was instructed on 13 December to notify the Soviet delegation that the Dominican Republic desires to re-establish diplomatic relations with the USSR. The instructions, also ordered similar approaches to the Albanian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Rumanian delegations. These instructions may be the outgrowth of advice given Generalissimo Trujillo recently by a group of his most bitterly anti-US aides that he align himself with the Sino-Soviet bloc and convert his regime into a "socialist state" as the only effective means of withstanding concerted United States and OAS pressure against him. At this time, however, the Soviet bloc as a whole is unlikely to take any action that would publicly associate it with the unpopular Trujillo dictatorship, although the USSR may have one or more members of the bloc establish relations. (Page 9) 7 Jan 61 DAILY BRIEF iii TOP SECRET Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000169

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