CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/11/27

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• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2019
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2019
• Publication Date: November 27, 1952

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SECURIrTiFORMATION
27 November 1952
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
Office of Current Intelligence
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1.
diplomat sees differing Soviet and Chinese views on
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Korea (page
3).
FAR EAST
2.
Soviet jet light bombers transferred to Chinese air division
(page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
3.
French position in northwestern Tonkin precarious (page 4).
4.
Ctentral authority in Indonesia seen waning (page 6).
NEAR .EAST - AFRICA
5.
Anglo-Egyptian talks on the Sudan almost deadlocked((page 6).
6.
Exiled Greek Communists moving into Rumania (page 7).
WESTERN EUROPE
7.
Adenauer dissatisfied with progress on European defense
(page 8).
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GENERAL
diplomat sees differing Soviet and Chinese views on Korea:
wnereas
the S'ovliet attitude at the UN is "inflexible," the Chinese Communist
regime has been in direct contact with the West through New Delhi
and has pursued a "more accommodating policy."
Comment: Both Moscow and Peiping have
hinted that a compromise on the
POW issue is possible. Nevertheless both have publicly insisted on
1 repatriation, and the Chinese
ye not appreciably modified their demand for the
return o a Chinese prisoners.
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Moscow and Peiping have pursued common
policies since the establishment of the Chinese Communist regime
and there is no evidence of a disagreement on any major question.
FAR EAST
2. Soviet jet light bombers transferred to Chinese air division:
�vie jet iigntom ers
have been transferred to the Chinese Com-
munists0 the pres-
ence 01 such bombers in the Tsitsihar-based Chinese Communist 8th
Air Division, a conventional light bomber unit. There may be as
many as 22 IL-28's at Tsitsihar.
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Comment: This new intelligence on the future
subordination of the IL-28's does not by itself add measurably to the in-
dications of an impending enemy air offensive against UN forces in
Korea. Rather it indicates that Chinese bomber crews are in a more
advanced state of training than was previously believed.
The 8th Air Division is estimated to be the
best Chinese Communist bomber unit. Intensively trained in the past
year in night bombing operations, it is the only Chinese bomber unit
to have flown combat sorties in the Korean war.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
French position in northwestern Tonkin precarious:
The French military post
Tonkin is "very serious,'
in northwestern
\ it is doubtful that Na San can be held,
and overland withdrawal for the approximately 10,000 French troops
there would be very difficult, if not impossible. Attempts at air
evacuation may eventually be necessary, but French air transport
Is already strained.
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loss of northwestern Tonkin and a substantial number of French troops
might open the way for a Viet Minh drive into Laos.
Comment: French forces in northwestern
Tonkin are concentrated in two sectors, Lai Chau and Na San, with
five and twelve battalions respectively. Viet Minh forces are now
threatening Lai Chau with two regiments from the south and Na San
with two regiments from the north and two from the south (see map,
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