CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/06/14

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02684308
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• Document Creation Date: May 24, 2019
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2019
• Publication Date: June 14, 1952

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14 June 1952
Copy No. 53
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
FAR EAST
I. Enemy increases capabilities on east central Korean front
(page 3).
2. Mucci� believes Rhee no longer effective leader (page 3).
SOUTH ASIA
3. Indian Communists instructed to oppose American technical aid
program (page 4).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
4. Czech Government declines to intervene on Iran's behalf at The
Hague (page 4).
WESTERN EUROPE
5. Communists draft plan for cutting West Berlin utiltties (page 5).
6. Pinay to ban Communists from administrative and military
positions (page 5).
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FAR EAST
L Enemy increases capabilities on east central Korean front:
The Chinese Communist 12thArmy, thought 3.3(h)(2)
to have been relieved in east central Korea
on 9 June by the 60th Army, remains in
combat, according to Far East Command.
Recently captured prisoners of war in the Kumsong-Yulsa sector indi-
cate that one division of the 60th and two divisions of the 12th are in
this sector, which was previously occupied by the 12th Army alone.
Despite the presence of elements of two
armies in this area, the Far East Command points out that the pat-
tern of enemy activity along the rest of the front has been one of "a
series of reliefs in place."
Comment: Although the 12th Army may
yet be withdrawn, hostilities in this sector have been intensified in
the past few days.
2. Muccio believes Rhee no longer effective leader:
A mbassador Mucci� believes that the United 3.3(h)(2)
States can no longer expect effective leader-
ship from President Rhee and that the power-
seeking group headed by Lee Bum-suk "has
practically taken Rhee over completely." The Ambassador sees as a
probable development "a precipitous deterioration of the situation. . .
which may even be in the form of a violent forceful move. . . by Lee
Bum-suk acting ostensibly in the name of Rhee."
The Ambassador reached these conclusions
following a "futile" hour-long meeting with the President on 12 rune, in
which Rhee was "so completely irrational that it is impossible to make
a detailed summary of his wanderings." Mucci� considers that the
President is both physically and mentally exhausted and does not know
to whom to turn.
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SOUTH ASIA
3. Indian Communists instructed to oppose American technical aidprogramz
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Central Committee of the Indian Communist
Party has instructed its provincial committees
to boycott any American-sponsored village
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reconstruction movement and to obstruct by means of peasant non-
cooperation any technical aid measures under the Point IV program. It
also has advised widespread adoption of the slogan "Go home Americans."
Comment: These instructions indicate that
the Communists are sufficiently concerned over the prospects of in-
creased American aid in 1952 to institute stronger combative measures
than the present propaganda contrasting the ability of the Soviet Orbit
and the inability of the West to supply South Asia with needed goods.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
4. Czech Government declines to intervene on Iran's behalf at The Hague:
/the Czech Government
had refused to intervene with the Internation-
n behalf of Iran.
Czechoslovakia recognizes Iran's
right Ito nationalize the oil industry but considers that the right of in-
terpreting the UN charter is not within the competence of the court.
Comment: Iran is basing its case on the
article in the UN charter which stipulates that the UN is not authorized
to interfere in matters which are "essentially within the domestic juris-
diction" of any state.
The government in late April requested its
diplomats abroad to find out whether any countries planned to make
representations to the court in Iran's behalf.
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