CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/09/30

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02020555
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• Document Creation Date: April 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2019
• Publication Date: September 30, 1951

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SUMMARY
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USSR
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3. Peiping admits difficulty in selling Soviet "friendship" to
Chinese (page 4).
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4. Tito expresses willingness to enter into staff talks with NATO
officials (page 5).
5. Czechoslovakia hopes to conclude new payments agreement with
Mexico (page 6).
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GENERAL
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3. Peiping admits difficulty in selling Soviet "friendship" to Chinese:
An official of the Sino-Soviet Friendship
Association has publicly admitted that
the Chinese people remain suspicious
of the USSR and resist Peiping's efforts
to persuade them of Soviet "friendship."
The Deptity Managing Director of the Association, speaking over the
Peiping radio on 21 September, conceded that it will be a difficult
task to "expose and refute" the "rumors and slanders" about the USSR
which have gained widespread currency. He denounced the "Chinese
people's narrow nationalism" and the "resulting doubt and uneasiness"
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about the USSR, attitudes which are "incongruous with inter-
nationalism." The official recommended an intensified membership
drive and propaganda effort by the association.
Comment: The Sino-Soviet Friendship
Association, which claims 16 million members in Communist China,
is devoted to justifying Soviet policy in China and elsewhere.
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4. Tito expresses willingness to enter into staff talks with NATO
officials:
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an interview given by Tito to the British
High Commissioner and the Commander
of British troops in Austria on 16 August.
Tito stated then that he was prepared to enter into staff conversations
with NATO officials to determine the common defense of Austria and
Yugoslavia. He declared that he was pleased to learn of the NATO de-
cision to defend Austria, and that in case of war he certainly would
�not withdraw his troops southward to the Bosnian Mountains. Tito
added that NATO could depend on him to protect its southern flank and
to hold the Ljubljana Gap in northern Yugoslavia.
Comment: Tito's expressed willingness
to enter into staff talks with NATO officials is the first indication that
Yugoslavia is prepared to coordinate its defense program with that of
NATO. There is no evidence, however, that Tito at present con-
templates joining NATO. He is not known to have altered his previous
position that Yugoslavia is unwilling to join the Western defense
alliance but is prepared to make reciprocal commitments with indi-
vidual countries.
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5. zechoslovakia hopes to conclude new payments agreement with
Mexico:
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Comment: The Czechoslovak Government
is faced with the expiration at the end of this year of the existing
payments agreement which was signed on 20 October 1950. It obli-
gated Czechoslovakia to liquidate its debt of about one million dollars
through the delivery of tractors, water pumps, road machinery and
other specified goods, the account to be balanced at the end of 1951
by dollar payments. Mexico, in turn, agreed "not to obstruct" the
export of lead, zinc, copper, sisal, coffee and other products,
although no obligation existed to export specific quantities.
The conclusion of the agreement was
followed by a marked increase of Czechoslovak exports to Mexico in
early 1951 and by increased Czechoslovak attempts to obtain strategic
materials from Mexico through cover firms located in Western
European countries. There is no evidence that more than a small
portion of Mexico's production of strategic materials has reached
Czechoslovakia. The importance of maintaining Mexico as a source
of supply is indicated by the present trade campaign, which will facil-
itate negotiations for a new payments agreement.
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