CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/09/20

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03000954
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: September 20, 1955

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CONTENTS
1. COMMENT ON PERON'S RESIGNATION (page 3).
2. CHINESE NATIONALISTS CLAIM ATTACK ON MATSUS
IS IMMINENT (page 4).
3. INDIA MAY BACK ASIAN CONFERENCE ON FORMOSA
STRAITS (page 5).
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1. COMMENT ON PERON'S RESIGNATION
The resignation of Argentine president
Peron, as announced over the official
radio shortly after noon on 19 Septem-
ber, followed several threats by the
rebel naval forces to bombard Buenos Aires. Peron has
reportedly sought asylum in a Latin American embassy,
having made efforts toward such an arrangement during
the past two months. If the General Labor Confederation
and the powerful Peronista Party decide to accept a truce
between the military high command and leaders of the re-
volt, an uneasy peace will prevail and the general situa-
tion in Argentina will continue unstable. Class hatreds
which have developed along well-defined lines- over the
past ten years will not be eliminated or even diminished
as a result of Peron's removal.
Establishment of a ruling junta, which
is likely to reflect interservice rivalry for control of the
country, can be expected. Any military junta will proba-
bly have to struggle to keep control of the country, since
it seems unlikely that for some time to come it would be
willing or able to offer free elections. The only well-
organized political groups are the Peronistas.
Many high-ranking military officials
are known o be even more nationalistic than Peron.
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2. CHINESE NATIONALISTS CLAIM ATTACK ON MATSUS
IS IMMINENT
Chinese Nationalist sources have told
the chief of the American military
advisory group on Formosa that the
Chinese Communists plan to attack
the Matsu Islands between 27 September and 15 October.
The American embassy at Taipei
comments that this report may be a Nationalist gambit
"to distract attention from any further progress in the
Geneva talks" or to forestall American objections to a
planned transfer of additional troops to the Matsus.
Comment Nationalist sources may well be
attempting to sound out American
opinion regarding a reinforcement of the Matsus, where
there are about 19,000 troops at present.
In view of their asserted aim of
"political liberation" of Nationalist territory, the Chi-
nese Communists are probably anxious to push ahead to
further political discussions at Geneva rather than under-
take military action against the Nationalists. Military
action in any case is not likely to be launched until con-
struction of coastal air bases is completed and additional
naval strength is moved into the area.
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3. INDIA MAY BACK ASIAN CONFERENCE ON FORMOSA
STRAITS
India will support a proposal for a
conference on Far Eastern questions
if such a move is made by the USSR
at the October meeting of the foreign
ministers, according to a statement
by the Indian chairman of the International Control Com-
mission to the American embassy in Cambodia. He un-
derstands that there will soon be a meeting of the nine
Geneva powers to go over the status of implementation of
the Geneva settlements and that in such a meeting India
will support a move for a conference. He believes that
India would desire a "discussion of Formosa Straits,"
but not of "the status of Taiwan itself."
He added that he intended to take up
the matter of a "Lcicarno-type" Asian security treaty
with Nehru and was confident of Nehru's support for the
idea.
Comment The Indian representative's statement
parallels Chou En-lai's 30 July call
for a general Far Eastern conference to discuss easing
tension in the Formosa Straits and his expressed hope
for an Asian security pact. A further similarity is the
exclusion of Formosa's "status" as a subject for discus-
sion--a subject which the Chinese Communists have al-
ways held to be an "internal" Chinese matter.
There have been recent indications
that India is adopting a more conciliatory attitude toward
the United States and might therefore be careful to avoid
the appearance of close support for Communist views.
India has for some time, however, favored a Far Eastern
conference.
Moscow has repeatedly called for a
settlement of Far Eastern problems and is expected to
propose such a conference at the October meeting of the
foreign ministers.
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