CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/02/03

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• Document Creation Date: May 24, 2019
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2019
• Publication Date: February 3, 1952

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SUMMARY
FAR EAST
1. Indian Ambassador to Peiping instructed to urge early Korean truce
(page 3).
2. Communist China may get oil from India (page 3).
3. Burmese UN delegate suspects American support of the Chinese
Nationalists (page 4).
4. Burmese waver on plan to evacuate the Chinese Nationalists (page 4).
NEAR EAST.- AFRICA
5. Britain eager to start negotiations with Egypt (page 5).
EASTERN EUROPE
6. United States to be implicated in Slansky trial (page 5).
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7. New plans to oust Bolivian Government (page 6).
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1. Indian Ambassador to Peiping instructed to urge early Korean truce:
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Minister Nehru has instructed the Indian
Ambassador to Peiping to urge the Chinese
Communists to agree to a reasonable truce in
Korea and not to intervene in Indochina. Nehru
is said to feel that his Ambassador's repre-
sentations will have some effect in Peiping.
The US Embassy in London has learned of a
report from the Indian Charge in Peiping that the basic cause of the stale -
mate in the Korean truce talks is Peiping's conviction that the United
States is "insincere,.., and has no real desire for peace." The British
Foreign Office has asked its Charge in Peiping whether it would be useful
to have the Chinese Communist Government informed of India's view that
the United States genuinely desires an early armistice.
Comment: Indian Ambassador Panikkar has
just returned to China after attending the United Nations meetings in Paris.
Both Panikkar and the Indian Charge have publicly praised the Peiping
regime and have sometimes uncritically accepted the Communist line.
There is no indication that Peiping ever has been or will be influenced
either by Nehru or his representatives.
2. Communist China may get oil from India:
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The US Consul General in Calcutta reports thai
the Indian Government issued an export license
on 14 January for the shipment of over a thousand
tons of American surplus lubricating oil to Macao.
The Consul General discovered that this oil,
although contaminated by water, would be usable after cleaning or special
treatment.
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Comment: This oil is probably destined for
Communist China,. as Macao has often been a way point for strategic goods
shipped from non-Communist countries to the mainland. This would be
one of the largest single shipments of oil to reach Communist China from
Western sources since the United Nations embargo of July 1950.
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3. Burmese UN delegate suspects American support of the Chinese Nationalists:
The chief Burmese delegate to the United Nations,
in a message to his Foreign Office, mentions
that he suspects the United States is involved
in the Chinese Nationalist activities in Burma.
He urges that pending his return to Rangoon a
committee begin compiling the report to be presented to the United Nations.
Comment: This is the first evidence that the
Burmese delegate, Ti Myint Thein, who has previously attempted to dis-
suade his government from introducing the case before the United Nations,
suspects American involvement.
4. Burmese waver on plan to evacuate the Chinese Nationalists:
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Foreign Office has told American and British
diplomats that the movement of Chinese Nation-
alist troops through Rangoon to Formosa would
be a breach of neutrality, and that the proper course would be to intern
them.
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The US Charge comments that Burma apparently
will not help to evacuate the Nationalists, but will leave the responsibility for
any such task to the United States and Thailand.
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Comment: Burma recently asked the United
States to persuade the Chinese Nationalist Government to order Li Mit s
troops in Burma to surrender in preparation for evacuation to Formosa.
Burma's cooperation in such a plan was strongly implied. Fear of Com-
munist China's reaction may have caused a change of attitude.
NEAR EAST.- AFRICA
5. Britain eager to start negotiations with Egypt:
The American Embassy in London reports
that the British Foreign Office appears eager
to start negotiations with Egypt as soon as the
new government is ready. The Embassy be-
lieves the Foreign Office will be "reasonable and realistic" about its
demand that terroristic activity in the Canal zone must first be suppressed,
since it seeks primarily an assurance of the new government's willingness
to cooperate to that end.
EASTERN EUROPE
6. United States to be implicated in Slansky trial:
The United States Ambassador in Prague is
certain that the Slansky trial will be used for
a propaganda attack on the United States and
warns that it may be used to provide an excuse
for further restricting, and perhaps even closing, the Embassy. In the
Ambassador's opinion, the trial might include presentation of dramatic
"proof" of a United States attempt to implement the alleged aims of the
Mutual Security Act.
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CoMment: Slansky is accused of conspiring
with a Western power and of implication in American "subversive and
conspiratorial activities in the Peoples' Democracies."
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LATIN AMERICA
7. New plans to oust Bolivian Government:
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The Nationalist Revolutionary Movement plans
to oust the Bolivian junta between 5 and 10
February, The
plan calls for seizure of tin mines and of
hostages, and for coordinated uprisings. President Peron of Argentina is
reportedly cooperating and providing ten planes.
The Minister of Government, who knows of the
plans, states that "everything is under control."
Comment Pressure for a change in the govern-
ing junta has been increasing. The Commanding General of the Army and
various military commanders are sympathetic to the Nationalist Revolution-
ary Movement, and various leaders of the movement have been maneuvering
to gain power peaceably.
It is unlikely that Peron would offer planes for
a coup, although he might provide undercover support.
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