CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/09/10

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• Document Creation Date: September 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: September 10, 1955

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10 September
1955
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CONTENTS
1. IMPORTANT CHANGES IN SOVIET MILITARY FORCES
IN GERMANY MAY BE IMPENDING (page 3).
2. FRANCE MAY ACCEPT VIET MINH REPRESENTATION
TO PARIS (page 4).
3. ALBANIA MOVES TO IMPROVE ITS RELATIONS WITH
ITALY (page 5).
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1. IMPORTANT CHANGES IN SOVIET MILITARY FORCES
IN GERMANY MAY BE IMPENDING
The completion of Soviet antiaircraft
artillery firing exercises, originally scheduled to last
until 18 September, has been advanced to 16 September,
Comment
These security measures and the ap-
parent advance in the training schedule
may presage some reorganization or reclisposition in the
Group of Soviet Forces, Germany. Some reorganization
might be undertaken in conjunction with the demobilization
of an unusually large number of conscripts. The USSR
promised in August to reduce its active military personnel
strength by 640,000, and this reduction might well involve
a cut in the 435, 000 Soviet ground and air personnel in
Germany.
The USSR might go so far as to reduce
the number of combat divisions now stationed in East
Germany. Coming after the recent announcements of So-
viet and Satellite troop cuts, such a dramatic move would
be calculated to give added impetus to the Soviet campaign
for relaxation of tensions. The USSR would hope that such
a concrete "demonstration" that the threat of military ag-
gression against the NATO area has evaporated would bring
powerful pressure to bear on the Western governments to
reduce NATO troop strength in Europe and slow down or
abandon the rearmament of West Germany. An announce-
ment of troop cuts in East Germany would have a particu-
larly dramatic effect if made during Adenauer's negoti-
ations in Moscow.
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2. FRANCE MAY ACCEPT WET MINH
REPRESENTATION TO PARIS
he French government intends to
decide this month the question of
let Minh representation in Paris,
cording to Jacques Roux, chief of
airs in the Foreign Ministry. Roux stressed
to American officials on 8 September, however, that it
was not yet certain that France was prepared to accede
to the Viet Minh desire to send an official economic and
cultural mission. He pointed out, however, that if France
was unable to make a favorable response, it would mean
the end "in effect" to the Sainteny mission in Hanoi.
The American embassy in Paris be-
lieves that France does not want to terminate the Sainteny
mission, and, in the hope that the Viet Minh will take a
moderate line on the elections consultations issue, is re-
luctant to do anything that will offend the North Vietnam
government.
Comment Should France accept a Viet Minh
mission, South Vietnam would prob-
ably become stronger in its opposition to consultations
with North Vietnam on elections. The Diem govern
ment has long maintained that, among other things, un-
qualified American, British, and French backing is a
prerequisite to acceptance of consultations.
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3n ALBANIA MOVES TO IMPROVE ITS RELATIONS
WITH ITALY
The Albanian minister in Rome in-
formed the Italian Foreign Ministry
on 8 September that his government
has decided to release 13 Italian
s and begin n alks with Rome on the "whole problem
of normalization of relations." According to Secretary
General Rossi-Longhi of the Italian Foreign Ministry,
Italy intends to hold such talks.
Rossi-Longhi told the American em-
bassy that he believed this approach resulted from
Tirana's fear of the consequences of an agreement Yugo-
slavia and the USSR might have reached on Albania.
The Italian minister to Albania told
the American embassy in Rome his government is con-
sidering making an official public statement of Italian
Interest in the neutrality, independence, and territorial
integrity of Albania.
Comment These conciliatory Albanian moves
toward Italy are in keeping with the
recent efforts by Tirana to play a part in the Soviet
bloc's policy of conciliation.
There is no evidence that a Yugo-
slav-Soviet deal exists regarding Albania. Italian
policy has consistently sought to keep a door open for
the eventual renewal of Italian influence in Albania and
to discredit Yugoslavia by accusing Tito of plotting a
partition of Albania or seeking hegemony over it.
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