CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/05/03

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02901101
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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: May 3, 1953

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I. May Day celebrations emphasize peace (page 3).
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2. Long detention of Korean war prisoners might reduce opposition to
repatriation (page 3).
3. Peiping propaganda may be designed to deter Thailand from aiding
French (page 4).
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6. Religious orders to be abolished in Czechoslovakia (page 6).
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Deposed Cuban president plans early revolt (page 7),
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1. May Day celebrations emphasize peace
May Day celebrations throughout the Communist
Orbit played down the past theme of military strength and stressed instead
the current campaign of conciliation. Major speeches offered no concessions
on any important issues and left the current state of divisive issues between
East and West essentially unchanged.
Editorials and speeches from Moscow reiterated
the collective character of the new Soviet Government. In Communist China,
contrary to the past practice of featuring Stalin along with Mao, Malenkov
and other Soviet leaders were given secondary rank following portraits of
Mao and his lieutenants.
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2. Long detention of Korean war prisoners might reduce opposition to
repatriation:
Ambassador Briggs fears that a long detention3.3(h)(2)
of Communist prisoners now unwilling to be
repatriated might cause many of them to change
their minds. He notes that this would create
serious embarrassment for the United States and a propaganda victory
for the Communists.
Briggs recommends that the Chinese and North
Korean prisoners be handled separately. He urges that the neutral trustee
be given the power of final decision, making possible a speedy transfer to
South Korean authorities of the 32�000 North Koreans who are opposed to
repatriation. He also suggests that the Chinese prisoners, most of whom
say they want to go to Forinosa, be retained initially in Korea. He fears
that an attempt to send them elsewhere would make them apprehensive
that eventually they would be returned to Communist control.
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Comment: President Rhee informed General
Clark on 27 April that his people would never permit removal of North
Korean prisoners from Korea, and that the prisoners themselves would
resist it. Although Chou En-lai appeared interested last October in a
distinction between Chinese and Korean prisoners, Peiping now insists
that all prisoners must be physically removed from Korea so as to free
them from "apprehensions."
3. Peiping propaganda may be designed to deter Thailand from aiding French:
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believes that recent Chinese Communist propa-
ganda attacks on Thailand, alleging Thai mili-
tary aid to the French, are designed both to
deter the Thais from giving aid to Laos and to
prepare the ground for possible future action against Thailand from Laos.
He comments that there is no doubt that the
Chinese Communists intend eventually to bring about the downfall of the
Thai Government, but he does not foresee any early Chinese military
action.
Comment: The Chinese Communist press,
after failing to mention the Laos invasion until 29 April, now reports it
as the work of a "Laotian People's Liberation Army."
As yet no "liberation" movement has developed
in Thailand for Peiping to support. The "Thai Autonomous Government"
established in Southwest China last February can be used in a long-range
program to subvert the Thai Government.
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6. Religious orders to be abolished in Czechoslovakia:
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monks and nuns in monasteries, hospitals, and
other charitable institutions will be officially
abolished in the near future. The disbanding of religious groups is to be
conducted by "persuasive" means and members of the orders will be
encouraged to enter civilian pursuits.
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Comment: The effort to recruit monks and
nuns for work abroad as collaborators illustrates the scope of State
Security Police activities outside Czechoslovakia. The Security Police
have compiled lists of all aliens residing in Czechoslovakia, particularly
Americans, and indicated that certain of these were being considered for
collaboration work abroad.
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/1/(. Deposed Cuban president plans early revolt:
Comment: Ever since his ouster in March
1952, Prio has been planning a return to power. He reportedly has spent
considerable sums acquiring war materiel, built up his forces in Cuba
and abroad, and directed operations from Mexico City and Miami.
Present plans reportedly call for an armed
revolt by conspiratorial groups within Cuba who will then be joined by
invasion forces, containing Caribbean Legion elements, from Mexico
and Guatemala.
Such a counterrevolutionary effort probably
could not take place without Batista's knowledge and would lead only to
bloodshed and failure.
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