CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/04/05

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• Document Creation Date: May 24, 2019
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2019
• Publication Date: April 5, 1952

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. French Charge in Moscow comments on BW propaganda campaign
(page 3).
2. North Korean children to be sent to Eastern Europe (page 3).
3. French Ambassador doubts American understanding of Russian
strategy on Germany (page 4).
FAR EAST
4. Preparations for Communist offensive in Korea reported (page 4).
5. Desperate plight of Americans in China reported (page 5).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
6. Iraqi Prime Minister suggests solution of Tunisian question (page 6).
7. Syria favors closer relations with Spain (page 6).
EASTERN EUROPE
8. Czechs require recommendation of US Communists before granting
asylum to Americans (page 7).
LATIN AMERICA
9. Chilean free-disposal copper sales reduced (page 7).
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GENERAL
1. French Charge in Moscow comments on BW propaganda campaign:
French Charge Brionval in Moscow believes
that the Soviet Government instigated the
propaganda campaign against biological war-
fare in order to strengthen the Partisans of
Peace, foment popular hostility toward the
US, force the United States to condemn the use of bacteriological weapons,
and create in the Far East a "psychological climate" favorable to a possi-
ble future Communist push to the south.
Brionval thinks that the campaign has afforded
the USSR an opportunity to reaffirm Sino-Soviet solidarity, conceal the
inadequacy of the Chinese medical services, and divert attention from
the investigation of the Katyn massacre.
Brionval says that there have been very few
news reports from South and Southeast Asia which the Soviet press
could quote as proof of public indignation at the alleged American campaign.
He adds that there has been total silence concerning public reaction in
japan, save for a report that the Japanese Partisans of Peace protested
on 26 March.
According to Brionval, the Bulgarian Am-
bassador in Moscow, an old-line Communist, told the Swedish Ambassador
that Bulgarians "do not believe in the accuracy of the Sino-Soviet accusa-
tions."
2. North Korean children to be sent to Eastern Europe:
700 children are to be sent from North Korea
to Eastern Europe, 500 to Rumania and 200 to
Czechoslovakia. He inquired about railroad
accommodations and requested that the Chinese Government dispatch
railroad cars to Sinuiju, where the children are to entrain, probably
about 20 April.
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Comment: This will more than double the
number of young Koreans who have recently arrived in the East European
Satellites. There were an estimated 475 early in March, a majority of
them war orphans sent to Hungary and Poland. This suggests a program
of indoctrination similar to that accorded Greek children in recent years,
3. French Ambassador doubts American understanding of Russian strategy
on Germany:
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The French Ambassador in London complained
recently to Paris that the United States seems
to have no clear appreciation of the danger that
e Russians may accept Western conditions on
erman unity, including free elections, and
ject ttie peace negotiations to the familiar delays.
He fears that the United States does not realize
how powerless and unpredictable an amorphous German government in
Berltn would be, "subject to the perpetual extortions of Soviet occupation
and negotiation."
Comment: The Soviet strategy suggested in
would involve giving up Communist political control of East
Germany, part of the Soviet economic program, and the paramilitary
organizations. If an all-German governMent were created, however,
the USSR could maintain indefinite control through its occupation army,
by causing a stalemate situation similar to that in Austria.
While there are no indications that the Soviet
Union intends to pursue such a strategy, it would offer an alternate course
between watching West Germany's integration into NATO, or blocking
this development by sacrificing all control of East Germany by a serious
offer of a unified and "neutral" nation.
FAR EAST
4. Preparations for Communist offensive in Korea reportedz
Preparations for a Communist general
offensive in North Korea are reported by
a fairly reliable North Korean source with
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Two Chinese Communist armies began moving
southeast on 28 March from staging areas in east central Korea near the
39th Parallel, Four additional Chinese armies
have also been alerted for the offensive. Four North Korean corps, now
in the east coast area, are scheduled to participate.
Comment. There are no firm indications that
Communist forces in Korea intend to launch another major offensive in the
near future. It is possible, however, that a limited objective offensive
may be undertaken in eastern Korea, the apparent focal point of the reported
preparations, where UN forces hold a considerable amount of North Korean
terrain.
5. Desperate plight of Americans in China reported:
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desperate.
The American Consul General in Hong Kong
reports that the manager of the Standard
Vacuum Oil Company in Shanghai. telephoned
, the company's Hong Kong office and declared
that the plight of American businessmen was
He was afraid, not so much of jail, as of "the other thing."
The Consul General calls attention to an
authentic report from Tsingtao of the arrest of an American missionary
on 7 March under circumstances indicating that the seizure might be
connected with the germ warfare propaganda campaign.
Comment: All Western businessmen in China
are subjected to extortionate financial demands as a condition for per-
mission to leave the country. Over 200 Americans are still in Commu-
nist China, nearly 40 of them under arrest.
Recent British and French diplomatic reports
have expressed grave concern for their nationals in China.
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NEAR EAST- AFRICA
6, Iraqi Prime Minister suggests solution of Tunisian question:
Iraqi Prime Minister Nun i Said informed the
French Ambassador in Baghdad on 27 March,
before Tunisian Premier Chenik was dismissed,
that Iraq planned to "intervene" with the French
Government on Tunisia's behalf. Nun, who
wea ss for France but doubted the wisdom of its North African
policy, said that he believed France could negotiate effectively only with
Chenik and his supporters, whom he considered representative of Tunisian
general opinion.
He recommended the inclusion of Tunisia in a
structure analogous to the British Commonwealth as a way of maintaining
its ties with France.
Comment: Intervention by Nun i Pasha, who
has been trying unsuccessfully to mediate the Anglo-Egyptian dispute, is
not likely to be acceptable to the French.
Iraq is one of the Arab-Asian states that have
brought the Tunisian case to the Security Council. Two others, Lebanon
and Syria, which have not joined the bloc on the Tunisian problem, are
also reported to have approached the French directly on this case.
7. Syria favors closer relations with Spain:
The Syrian Government favors close political,
economic and military collaboration with
Spain,
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attitude stems in large part from Syria's desire
be equally independent of the Soviet Union and the West.
The Syrian Foreign Minister reportedly said
that his government will take advantage of Spanish Foreign Minister Martin
Artajo's coming visit to complete plans for closer relations.
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Comment:
that some of the Arab states may be willing to consider a Spanish-Arab
pact. There have been many rumors that the matter would be discussed
by the Spanish Foreign Minister during his tour of the Arab capitals which
began on 4 April.
EASTERN EUROPE
8. Czechs require recommendation of US Communists before granting asylum
to Americans:
Czech Foreign Minister Siroky stated
to the Legation in Mexico
City that since the Ministry had not received
"a recommendation of the Communist Party
through our diplomatic office in the United
States," he cofd not suggest asylum for persons "not known to us." The
"high political offices" decide the matter of granting
asylum.
Comment: This is the first evidence that
Czechoslovakia ever coordinated requests for asylum, presumably made
by United States citizens, with the Communist Party of the United States.
In a 28 Sanuary message to Mexico City, Czecho-
slovakia refused requests of asylum made by two United States Communists,
in one case because of insufficient information, and in the other because of
the applicant's Polish origin.
LA TIN AMERICA
Chilean free-disposal copper sales reduced:
official in
Chile has reported that there are practically
no new orders for copper from Chile's 20 per-
cent free-disposal quota, and that current
shipments are on old orders., The United States Embassy in Santiago
accepts this version and believes that President Gonzalez Videla's
optimistic statements on this subject are intended for internal con-
sumption in Chile.
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Comment: /
/ The continued failure
of free-disposal copper to be sold at the Chilean official price of $1200
per metric ton may considerably weaken Chile's position in the current
Washington conversations in which that country is seeking an increase
of about six cents per pound in the price of copper sold to the United
States.
Chile's free-disposal copper quota for the first
year of the US-Chilean agreement of May 1951 may approximate 100,000
metric tons.
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