CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/04/12

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02893547
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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: April 12, 1953

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
I. Soviet air safety proposals recommended as basis for further
negotiations (page 3).
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SOUTH ASIA
3. Comment on apparent improvement in Indo-Pakistani relations
(page 4).
WESTERN EUROPE
4. Return of Thorez expected to heighten French Communist peace
offensive (page 5).
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5. Disturbances in Venezuelan oil fields reportedly scheduled for
mid-April (page 5).
6. Comment on Argentine cabinet crisis (page 6).
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GENERA L
1. Soviet air safety proposals recommended as basis for further negotiations:
Despite the disadvantages of the Soviet air saf3:3,
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proposals, Western Allied air representatives
meeting at Bonn have recommended accepting them
as a basis for further quadripartite negotiations.
The single air corridor is considered unsatisfac-
tory because of the technical difficulties involved.
Counterproposals for a wider single corridor,
abolition of the approximately 13,000-foot flight
ceiling, and agreement on the rules governing
Soviet interception of planes straying from the
corridor were suggested.
2.
The British Foreign Office feels that the Western
powers might yield on the prohibition of flights by combat aircraft if the
talks were endangered by Western insistence on this issue.
The French Foreign Office, however, believes
that giving up the right to arm planes might be "extremely unwise." The
French offered no objection to the single-corridor idea provided no techni-
cal difficulties were involved, but rejected the Soviet "right" to grant the
West the use of the corridor.
Comment: While the Western powers are
generally agreed on the advantages and disadvantages of the Soviet pro-
posals, they want to avoid a situation in which they could be blamed for
breaking off the discussions.
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