CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/04/24

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02733119
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: March 18, 2019
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2019
• Publication Date: April 24, 1951

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SUMMARY 
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3. De Lattre fears teamwork of Chinese and Vietnamese 
Commdnists (page 4). 
4. De Lathe outlines Tonkin delta operations (page 4). 
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5. Government plans to curb Soviet activity in Pakistan 
(page 5). 
WESTERN EUROPE 
6. German Social Democrat leader urges stronger govern-
ment stand against anti-remilitarization "plebiscite" 
(page 5). 
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3. De Lathe fears teamwork of Chinese and Vietnamese Communists: 
General de Lattre has stated his conviction 3.3(h)(2) 
that the entry into northwest Tonkin of a Chinese 
Communist battalion was the result of a request 
from, or perhaps a bargain with, Ho Chi Minh 
to support Viet Minh pressure on the French post at Laichau and thus 
divert French troops from the delta or, failing that objective, to assist 
the Viet Minh in establishing themselves in the Laichau region. In cle 
Lattre' s opinion, his quick airlift to Laichau forced both the Viet Minh 
and Chinese forces back and he expressed the belief that the latter have 
now retired across the border. De Lattre sees no indication of an early 
Invasion in force from China, but he is concerned over the fact that Ho 
was able to obtain the support of Chinese Communist troops. 
4. De Lattre outlines Tonkin delta operations: 
General de Lattre states that 10,000 Franco- 3.3(h)(2) 
Vietnamese troops have just successfully 
completed extensive clearing operations in the 
guerrilla-infested lowlands southwest of Haiphong 
within the French defense perimeter. This "viper's nest" was the base 
for launching attacks within the perimeter coinciding with attacks from 
outside. 
comment: De Lathe's use of a full mobile 
division in this operation, following shortly upon an easing of enemy 
pressure to the north, illustrates his determination to move to the offen-
sive whenever and wherever possible. It is unlikely that Ho Chi Minh's 
forces, which have established numerous "fortified villages" within the 
French perimeter, have been completely cleared out. 
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NEAR EAST 
5. government plans to curb Soviet activity in Pakistan: 
On 22 March, Mohammad Ikramullah, Secre- 3.3(h)(2) 
tary of the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 
Informed the US Ambassador in Karachi that his 
government was investigating all aspects of 
Soviet activity in Pakistan, especially propaganda. Upon completion of 
the investigation, Ikramullah expects to have the permission of the 
cabinet to tell the Soviet Ambassador that Pakistan will permit only such 
Soviet activity in Pakistan as is allowed Pakistanis in the USSR. The 
government then plans to close bookstalls and propaganda distributing 
agencies employed by the Soviets and to cancel all their mailing lists. 
Comment: The Government of Pakistan, which 
has been slow to recognize the dangers of Communism in an Islamic 
country, now appears to be fully aware of them. It may be that Communist 
implication in the recent military plot to overthrow the government has 
sharpened the government's interest in the subject. It is believed, how-
ever, that any anti-Soviet moves made by the Pakistanis in the near future 
will be more cautious and less sweeping than Ikramullah suggests. 
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anti-remilitarization "plebiscite": 
Herbert Wehner, Social Democratic Party (SPD) 
chairman of the Bundestag All-German Affairs 
Cbmmittee, in an April 20 meeting, severely 
criticized the Adenauer government's failure to 
take prompt and effective measures to suppress the new anti-re.militari-
zation "plebiscite" sponsored by the East German Communists. He 
described the West German counter-propaganda moves as "half-measuke,s, 
Wehner urged that the government issue a clear statement at once declaring 
the pleb6scite illegal, and request the Laender Interior Ministries to take 
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police measures to suppress it, 
CoMment: Leaders of the Social Democratic 
Party are becoming alarmed at Communist success in influencing SPD 
members to support the plebiscite. They are now disturbed at the 
unexpected effect, favorable to the Communists, of SPD opposition to 
Adenauer's remilitarization program. 
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