CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/05/06

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02901103
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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: May 6, 1953

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SUMMARY
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
I. Mossadeq proposes new plan for arbitration of Anglo-Iranian
dispute (page 3).
2. Iranian minister of court seeks US views on change in monarchy
(page 3).
LATIN AMERICA
3. Bolivia gains support in tin crisis (page 4).
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Mossadeq proposes new plan for arbitration of Anglo-Iranian dispute:
Prime Minister Mossadeq asked Ambassador 3.3(h)(2)
Henderson on 3 May if President Eisenhower
would be willing to arbitrate the Anglo-Iranian
oil dispute. Mossadeq said that he was prepared
o ask the Majlls for full authority for President Eisenhower to decide on
the compensation Iran owes the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, provided the
British gave him similar authority.
Henderson told Mossadeq that it would not be
easy to induce Great Britain to try to find a solution so long as he remains
prime minister.
Comment: It is not likely that Mossadeq could
persuade the Majlis to accept a plan which denies it the right to veto any
decision which it does not like.
2. Iranian minister of court seeks US views on change in monarchy:_
In a conversation with a US Embassy officer on 3.3(1)(2)
3 May, Acting Minister of Court Amini stated
that the differences between the shah and Mossadeq
should be settled as they benefit only the Tudeh.
He asked what US policy is toward Iran, particularly Mossadeq, and what
the American attitude would be toward the elimination of the monarchy or
the replacement of the shah.
Comment: Amini may have been seeking some
assurance on behalf of the shah that the United States would not support an
attempt to remove him. On the other hand, Amini is a member of the
previous Qajar dynasty, which the present shah's father overthrew, and he
may be supporting Mossadeq in the latter's desire to eliminate the shah.
Amini reportedly had been maneuvering for his
present post for some time, and he is an intimate of some of the shah's
enemies.
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LATIN AMERICA
3. Bolivia gains support in tin crisis:
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Comment; The decision of the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation in March to discontinue purchases, together
with the drop of almost 25 percent in world tin prices during the past
month, has greatly diminished the La Paz government's chances of
survival. About half of Bolivia's tin has normally been marketed in
the United States.
Bolivia maintains that tin is the "source of
life" of its people, and that any tin questions cannot be dealt with on
a purely commercial basis, but are also political. A prolonged delay
in settling the problem could result in economic chaos, and lead to the
accession of an even more extremist government.
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