CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1961/03/01

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• Publication Date: March 1, 1961

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CONTENTS
2. USSR-UN: Contrary to previous report, Gromyko
will attend resumed General Assembly session in
March. (Page it)
3. Mali: Bloc offers to purchase entire 1960-61 pea-
nut crop. (Page tt)
5. Israel - Arab States: Forthcoming Israeli test mo-
bilization may be used by Nasir as occasion to de-
nounce Israel. (Page iit)
6. USSR: Comment on ICalchenko's dismissal. (Page iti)
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*USSR-UN- The designation of Foreign Minister Gromyko
to head the Soviet delegation to the General Assembly which
resumes on 7 March apparently marks a change in Soviet plans.
Khrushchev may wish to show that despite his harsh attacks on
Hammarskjold and Western policy in the Congo, he has not lost
interest in improved relations with the US and a meeting with the
President. Gromyko told the Finnish foreign minister in mid-
February that neither he nor Khrushchev would return to New
York for this session of the UN but indicated that Khrushchev
was still willing to come to the US for talks with the President.
One of Gromyko's purposes may be the arrangement of such a
meeting. The decision to send Gromyko coincides with an inten-
sive effort by the Soviet UN delegates to confine General Assem-
bly debate to a few items so as not to hinder restoration of "nor-
mal" US-Soviet relation,
Mali-Bloc:CMali is reportedly engaged in negotiations base
On ..a joint Soviet-Czech offer to purchase Mali's entire 1960-6
peanut crop--about 50,000 metric tons--for approximately
$20,000,000. Since this single commodity accounts for about
90 percent of the country's export earnings, consummation of th
deal would lead to an early reorientation of the Malian economy,
toward the bloc. France has offered to continue taking Mali's
peanuts at premium prices, but Mali's leaders are apparently
attracted by the willingness of the bloc countries to make a 25-
percent payment in US dollars and by the prospect of sharply re-
ducing Mali's economic dependence on France-.1
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Israel - Arab States: A surprise test mobilization of Israel's
armed forces is scheduled to take place shortly after 2 March.
Jordan has been informed of the impending test through UN arm-
istice commission channels. Nasir, who will probably also learn 6 K
of the test, is nevertheless likely to use it as an occasion to de-
nounce Israel during his current campaign to generate more en-
thusiasm in Syria for the union with Egypt. The scheduling of the
test at this time is probably designed by the Tel Aviv government
to unify the country following the disruption caused by a govern-
ment crisis over the Lavon affair, and to stren then Ben-Gurion's
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cultural failures emphasizes Khrushchev's determination to achieve
a sharp improvement in Soviet agriculture this year, and serves
notice on officials responsible for agricultural performance at all
levels that they stand to lose their jobs if they fail to get results.
Numerous lesser officials have been fired on similar grounds since G IC
January, when the party central committee aired the agricultural
problem. Kalchenko, who has been government chief in the Ukraine
since 1954, has been replaced by Vladimir Scherbitsky, one of the
central committee may be involved in the weeding out process be-
fore a new committee is elected by the next party congress in Oc-
tober. (Backup, Page 6)
Ukrainian party secretaries. Many more members of the party
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In the five months of its existence Mali has established
diplomatic relations with six bloc countries, including the
USSR and Communist China, received a large number of
visiting bloc delegations, and sent a number of special mis-
sions to bloc countries. Except for one rather vague eco-
nomic agreement with Czechoslovakia signed last Novembe
these contacts have so far produced few overt results.
Nevertheless, the way seems to be open for the bloc to pen-
etrate Mali as it has done in neighboring Guinea. The USSR
is known to have been developing a comprehensive plan for
the industrial development of Mali, while the Czechs have ,
evinced interest in Mali's civil aviation, industrial develop-
ment, and geological surveys. Malian Minister of Commerce
Ndoure stated last week that he was "inundated" with bloc
economic proposals, adding that he was under heavy politi-
cal pressure to accept such offers without delay.
Mali's Marxist-influenced one-party regime is moving
to reduce French influence The regime, motivated by a
militant anticolonialismt considers such a reduction a
necessary prerequisite to the attainment of its proclaimed
goal of "total" political and economic independence. At the
same time Malians continue to resent the part they believe
French elements played in neighboring Senegal's secession
from its former federation with Mali last summer. After
finally accepting the federation's demise, Mali's leaders
declared their country's dissociation from the French Com-
munity and began to institute measures aimed at undercut-
ting French commercial interests.
Regime spokes-
men nave ten little IOUbt that turtner moves to reduce
French influence--especially in the economic sphere--
would be forthcoming. A decision to shift the bulk of Mali'i4
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export trade to the bloc would suggest a possible early break
with the French franc currency zone.
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High Soviet Official Dismissed for Agriculture Failures
Khrushchev showed strong dissatisfaction with the condition of
Ukrainian agriculture early in the central committee meeting in mid-
January when he interrupted the speech of Ukrainian party chief
Podgorny, a member of the ruling party presidium, with sharp
criticism. The first sign that ICalchenko was personally in trouble,
came only a few days later when Khrushchev, in his own speech,
accused the Ukrainian Premier of panicking with disastrous re-
sults, during a drought in 1956. "There he sits," said Khrushchev,
"a member of the central committee and everything rolls off him
as water does off a duck's back. It doesn't matter to him that he
made a mistake."
Vladimir Matskevich, like ICalchenko a former subordinate
of Khrushchev's in the Ukraine, was fired as Soviet agriculture
minister in December. Their ousters and Podgorny's precarious
position are further signs that the Ukraine and Khrushchev's old
associates can no longer expect special treatment from Moscow
The new premier, Vladimir Shcherbitsky has been a secre-
tary of the Ukrainian party organization since late 1957, special-
izing in industrial matters. He is one of several younger party
administrators who have been brought recently into prominence.
A party member only since World War II, Shcherbitsky got
started in the Ukrainian party organization during the early 1950's
and became party boss in the industrial center of Dnepropetrovsk
In 1954. He attracted the attention of the Moscow leadership, and
was given a seat on the party's Central Auditing Commission at the
Twentieth Party Congress in Moscow in 1956.
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Chief of Staff, United States Army
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Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
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The Department of Justice
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