CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/08/05

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02872251
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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: August 5, 1953

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
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SOVIET UNION
2. Soviet Union may have new-type bomber (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
3. Sharp governmental divisions foreseen in Indonesia (page 4).
WESTERN EUROPE
4. French official doubts if his government seeks victory in
Indochina (page 4).
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SOVIET UNION
2. Soviet Union may have new-type bomber:
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on a field near Moscow a plane with a fuse-
lage and tail section resembling those of
the B-47 jet medium bomber.
I show the
plane to be hair again as large as a nearby TU-4 conventional medium
bomber. The plane may have had swept-back wings,
The engine type could not be determined,
but a swept-wing aircraft could be expected to be jet-propelled.
Comment: If the suggested jet-type pro-
pulsion is substantiated, this would be the first evidence that the
USSR has constructed a prototype jet which is at least a large medium
and possibly a heavy bomber.
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Other information has already indicated
that a smaller jet medium bomber, designed by German scientists,
has been flight-tested in the USSR and may be intended for serial
production.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
3. Sharp governmental divisions foreseen in Indonesia:
Communist-front ministers in the new
Indonesian cabinet will meet "solid
opposition" from their staffs, in the
opinion of Sudjatmoko, editor of a
ja ar a socialist newspaper. He states that Prime Minister
Ali will "rebel" if leftist elements try to push through measures
to which he is opposed. He believes that provincial military and
civil authorities may give lip service to the new government, but
that they will not follow its dictates.
Comment: Sudjatmoko, a leftist
Socialist, has in recent years served as counselor in Indo-
nesia's embassy in Washington, as charge in London, and with
the Indonesian UN delegation.
As yet there is no clear indication whether
the opposition is sufficiently organized to be effective or whether
the expected divisions in all branches of the government will only
lead to further confusion.
WESTERN EUROPE
4. French official doubts if his government seeks victory in Indochina:
war in Indochina,
Despite the French policy announced on
3 July, there appears to be no real inten-
tion to accompany liberal political conces-
sions with effective measures to win the
according to the French political adviser to the
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Vietnam government. From talks with Deputy Premier Reynaud,
Foreign Minister Bidault, and others, he got the impression that
the French government hopes for sufficient victories to enable it
to make some sort of deal with the Chinese Communists or the
Viet Minh,
Comment The French have long hoped
to eliminate Chinese Communist aid to the Viet Minh through nego-
tiations. The French government denies any intention to negotiate
with the Viet Minh.
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