CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/11/15

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CURRENT
INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
3.3(h)(2)
3.5(c)
15 November 1956
Copy No. 112
OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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1. NEW SOVIET MOVES IN MIDDLE EAST AIMED PARTIC-
ULARLY AT ISRAEL (page 3).
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2. SYRIAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF THREATENS TO SABUTAGE
AME RIC AN- OWNE D PIPE LINE (page 5).
3. HIGH POLISH OFFICIAL SPELLS OUT WARSAW'S DESIRE
FOR US AID (page 6).
4. LITHUANIANS REPORTEDLY DEMONSTRATE AGAINST
SOVIET AUTHORITY (page 7).
BULGARIA TIGHTENS SECURITY MASTTRFS AGAINST
POSSIBLE TERRORIST ACTIVITIES (page 8
6. LARGE-SCALE HUNGARIAN DEPORTATIONS TO USSR
(page 9).
'REPORTED
7. ,EFFECT OF NEAR EAST SITUATION ON SEATO
(page 1O)
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1. NEW SOVIET MOVES IN MIDDLE EAST AIMED
PARTICULARLY AT ISRAEL
Bulganin will send
additional letters to
Eden, Mollet and
Ben-Gurion demand-
ing withdrawal of
foreign troops from
Egypt, payment of rep-
arations9 stationing of
an international force
between Egypt and
Israel, and estab-
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the minimum the
USSR would demand or a settlementwould be the original
partition resolutions, modified to remove the "injustices to
the Arabs:'
These Soviet tactics strongly suggest
that Israel is to be the main target of forthcoming Soviet
actions in the area. Such tactics, in addition to encourag-
ing the Arabs, would keep the conflict alive and obstruct a
quick UN settlement. A Moscow radio broadcast of 13 No-
vember warned that "what happened to Hitlerite Germany
may happen to Israel."
if
Israel did not withdraw its forces from the Gaza strip, the
USSR would consider what measures it would have to t
e withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area.
oviet support for the Arabs against the "imperial-
is powers" and Israel is not temporary or restricted to one
problem, but is general and permanent.
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2. SYRIAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF THREATENS TO
SABOTAGE AMERICAN-OWNED PIPELINE
Lt. Colonel Sarraj, chief of Syrian
military intelligence, has informed
the American-owned Tapline com-
pany that its pipeline from Saudi Arabia
to the Mediterranean will be blown up
unless the company agrees to furnish Syria's "entire re-
quirements of fuel oil." According to the Tapline official
who is the source of this information, Sarraj gave the
company 48 hours to reach a decision.
Comment Even before the present phase of the
Near East crisis, Sarraj boasted he
personally controlled the fate of the pipelines running
through Syria, and the sabotage of the pumping stations on
the lines from Iraq to the Mediterranean is attributed to
Syrian army personnel under his orders. Tapline has no
pumping stations outside Saudi Arabia, but the Syrian army
has iong had mines laid over Tapline's underground pipe-
lines, allegedly as preparation for defense against an
Israeli attack.
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3. HIGH POLISH OFFICIAL SPELLS OUT WARSAW'S
DESIRE FOR US AID
olish under secretary of state Josef
niewicz officially informed Ambassa-
or Jacobs on 13 November that Poland
desires economic assistance from the
United States. Winiewicz said that Poland needed short-
term credits--two to five years--for the purchase of grains,
fats and oils, cotton, fertilizer, and coal mining machinery.
He mentioned that the USSR could supply Poland with wheat
and could make available hard currency to buy machinery,
but implied that the terms in both cases would be onerous.
Winiewicz stressed, however, that Poland
could not accept aid involving political conditions or provid-
ing for controls to be exercised over the end use by Ameri-
cans in Poland. He was apprehensive that US laws and regu-
lations would require American "controllers" in Poland.
Winiewicz cautioned that because of the present world situa-
tion and Poland's "peculiar" relations with the USSR, it was
difficult to carry on Polish foreign relations and handle mat-
ters of economic assistance from the West.
Ambassador Jacobs comments that Winie-
wicz appeared to display more willingness to accept American
aid than on earlier occasions and did not mention his earlier
condition that all of Poland's outstanding problems with the
United States should be discussed at the same time. The am-
bassador thought that Winiewicz' reference to the possibility
of Soviet aid was not mentioned as a threat but rather to indi-
cate a decicled preference for United States aid.
Comment Poland is already over $600,000,000 in debt
to the USSR. While the Soviet Union re-
portedly has offered to make available�on unspecified terms--
one million tons of wheat, the new Polish leaders want to re-
duce Warsaw's economic dependence on Moscow.
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4. LITHUANL4NS REPORTEDLY DEMONSTRATE AGAINST
SOVIET AUTHORITY
A report received from a usually reliable
source of the American embassy in Mos-
cow states that anti-Russian demonstra-
tions involving up to 30,000 people occurred
in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas last week. The demonstrators
carried placards saying, "Russians, go home, we want better
living conditions and open frontiers:' There were apparently
some clashes with the police, but it is not known whether any
casualties resulted.
Comment In the latter part of October, university
students allegedly engaged in anti-Russian
demonstrations in Vilnyus, the capital of Lithuania. There
have been unconfirmed reports of similar demonstrations re-
cently in the Uzbek Republic.
Moscow might tolerate some unorthodox
activity and expressions of opinion by Soviet citizens, but will
certainly strongly repress demonstrations against Soviet
authority. Continuation of such disturbances will strengthen
the arguments of the Stalinists in top party circles for a stiffen-
ing of internal security.
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5. BULGARIA TIGHTENS SECURITY MEASURES AGAINST
POSSIBLE TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
Bulgarian leaders held an emergency
meeting on 3 November to discuss ter-
rorist activities alleged to have been
planned by former government officials,
Vice Premier Georgi
Traykov told the meeting tnat tne government had proof of
these plans. Subsequently, orders were issued to arrest all
suspects in order to suppress any revolutionary attempts.
a number
�of students have been arrested and accused of instigating
demonstrations. "scores" of former Bulgarian
army officers who were arrested in 1947 for planning a mili-
tary coup but who were subsequently released have been re-
arrested.
Comment There have been other reports that some
former government officials and young
army officers are opposed to the present regime. Bulgarian
Communist leaders have privately expressed concern over
widespread discontent and economic privations in Bulgaria,
and the existence of anti-Communist groups abroad prepared
to take advantage of any domestic unrest. They consid-
er these the real causes of the Hungarian revolution, but
have been unable to agree on corrective measures to be taken
in Bulgaria. As in other Satellites, security measures have
been increased considerably.
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6. LARGE-SCALE HUNGARIAN DEPORTATIONS TO
USSR REPORTED
The American legation in Budapest on
13 November reports that large-scale
deportations of Hungarian men, women,
children and soldiers identified with the
revolution have been taking place for the
past several days. A Budapest radio
broadcast on 14 November acknowledged
reports that "sealed railway cars have
carried prisoners eastward from Buda-
pest!' The regime radio admitted that "more and more work-
ers" were quitting their jobs after hearing these reports of
deportations.
Comment Reports of deportations presumably will
intensify the workers' resolve to continue
passive resistance by means of a general strike. The re-
gime has tried to end rebel resistance by an increasing
number of concessions which were first offered by the Nagy
government, while stopping short of the critical threats to
Communist control--a multiparty system, free elections� a
pledge of neutrality, and withdrawal from the Warsaw pact.
The regime-controlled press and radio,
as well as Sandor Gaspar, president of the national trade
union council, pleaded for an end to the strike and return
to order. These spokesmen maintained that "the withdrawal
of Soviet troops from Hungary is desired by all, with the ex-
ception of a few embittered Rakosi followers, but the Soviet
government has announced that Soviet troops will not march
out of the country as long as order is not restored:' Gaspar
pledged himself to an extremely liberal labor policy based on
workers' councils which would ensure worker autonomy, and
declared trade union independence from political parties and
the government.
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7. EFFECT OF NEAR EAST SITUATION ON SEATO
Comment on:
Despite an atmosphere of calm in SEATO,
the Anglo-French operation against Egypt
has created bitterness among representa-
tives of member countries in Bangkok,
according to Ambassador Bishop.
A Pakistani representative recently re-
marked that now it would be difficult to continue to justify
the position that his country should refrain from force in the
Kashmir dispute in accord with the UN charter. He pointed
out that two of Pakistan's SEATO allies, who are also perma-
nent members of the Security Council, took the position that
the charter did not apply when their vital interests were in-
volved. The Thai prime minister is concerned about Australia
and New Zealand, as well as Britain and France, being on the
"wrong side of a moral issue!'
Ambassador Bishop believes the attack on
Egypt has compromised any chances for widening Asian par-
ticipation in the pact, as potential members view the action
of Britain and France as proof that they are still colonialist
in outlook. Asian members of the organization will find it
more difficult to defend both domestically and internationally
their participation in SEATO.
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