CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/09/06

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• Document Creation Date: April 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2019
• Publication Date: September 6, 1951

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SUMMARY
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2, Yugoslavia expects Soviet proposal for Five Power Pact at UN General
Assembly (page 3).
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3. Viet Minh army morale reportedly declining (page 4
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4, British relax military alerts prior to Iran's ultimatum (page 4).
EASTERN EUROPE
5. Further Czechoslovak restrictions against Western diplomats reported
(page 5).
WESTERN EUROPE
Irish request US assistance in military purchases (page 6).
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2, viigostavin experts Soviet proposal for Five Power Pact at UN General
Assembly:
The Soviet Union will propose a Five Power Pact
as its main theme at the 6th UN General Assembly
Session this November, in the opinion of the
Yugoslav UN delegate. The Yugoslav delegate
mums tne U0011 will present a completely drafted project at the meeting and
has urged his government to develop a counterplan.
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Comment: At previous sessions of the General
Assembly, the USSR introduced general proposals around which its propa-
ganda themes rotated, such as prohibition of atomic weapons, reduction of
armaments, and condemnation of preparations for a new war. The proposal
for a Five Power Pact was introduced during the 1949 session and repeated
in 1950, but never enumerated any specific terms for such a pact. Reintro-
duction of the idea this fall would coincide with the completion of the Commu-
nists' Five Power Peace Pact signature campaign.
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3� Viet Minh army male reportedly declining:
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Viet Minh forces are reported
to be undergoing increasing
hardship from lack of food and medicines. Thirty
to sixty percent of the troops in large units are
unable to fight due to sickness. The result has been a decline in troop Fg(hesi()
an increase in desertions, and failure to fill recruitment quotas.
Comment:
indicates that the Viet Minh is increasingly hard-pressed
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material needs of the population within its zone and th t
consequently declined.
Minh armed forces are suffering a similar lowering of morale.
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4, British relax militaryrts prior to Iran's ultimatum:
The US Army Attache in London reports two
,military indications of reduced British tension
over the Iranian situation. The units involved
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in the contingent plan for protecting and evacuating British citizens in Abadan
have now been placed on a 72-hour alert In addition, although naval craft in
the area must remain in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, all except one cruiser
are now allowed to leave Abadan.
comment: On 24 August, the day after the oil
negotiations finally broke down, the military units involved in the plan had
been placed on a six-hour alert.
It is not yet known how British military activity
will be affected by Prime Minister Mossadecf s 5 September ultimatum that
the 350 technicians still at the Abadan refinery must be withdrawnunless the
oil negotiations are resumed within fifteen days. Though British citizens
were voluntarily withdrawn from the oilfields, the British Government has in-
dicated its intention to keep the remaining technicians at Abadan as long as
possible.
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5, Further Cmelos1ov4 restrIptions against Western diplomats reportea:
the Czechoslovak Government is preparing new
restrictions on Western diplomats. All Prague
diplomatic contacts will be concentrated in one building and the protocol
division will contain personnel from the Ministry of National Security. Diplo-
matic travel will be restricted to a radius of from 30 to 50 kilometers
around Prague. Travel in the country outside of this area will be on an in-
dividual permit basis, and overnight stops will be permitted only in speci-
fied hotels where security checks will be stringent
Comment: In view of the current marked de-
terioration of Czechoslovak relations with the Western countries, the report-
ed restrictions are entirely probable. In April, the Prague government
announced two measures which the US Embassy interpreted as attempts to
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Irish request US assistance in military purchases:
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Irish External Affairs Minister Aiken has ap-,
proached one of General Eisenhower's American
political advisers in Paris with an informal re-
quest for assistance in purchasing American
military equipment, promising in return very limited cooperation with NATO
In military staff talks on defense plans. Aiken indicated that the new Irish
Government was much concerned about the problem of defense and wanted a
small amount of up-to-date military equipment for training purposes.
Aiken gave his personal view that there was no
possibility of Ireland's joining NATO or other collective defense arrangements
at this time.
Commept; This is the first reported approach
to the US for military assistance on the part of the - DeValera government which
came into power in June. Though introducing a military budget about 25 per-
cent higher than its predecessor's, the DeValera government has publicly
reaffirmed Irish neutrality, and has given no countenance to any suggestions
that Ireland might in effect be willing to trade bases for military assistance.
The form of the present approach, which easily lends itself to official denials,
further suggests that DeValera is not yet ready to challenge Irish neutrality
sentiment to obtain US military equipment
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