CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1959/01/20

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20 JANUARY 1959
I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
Moscow trying to stampede West Ger-
man Socialists into renewed pressure
on Bonn and West to negotiate with
USSR
II. ASIA-AFRICA
Nasir seeks to muzzle Communist
line at forthcoming Afro-Asian Youth
Conference in Cairo.
Yemen - Badr obtaining Soviet wheat
to reduce impact of US shipment.
Kenya - African nationalists plan agi-
tation to mar visit by Queen Mother.
Cambodia - Sihanouk accuses Thailand
of plotting his overthrow, implies com-
plicity of US and South Vietnam.
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20 January 1959
DAILY BRIEF
I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
USSR: @oscow is attempting to encourage West Ger-
man opposition parties to make a major public issue of
Chancellor Adenauer's rejection of any negotiations on a
German peace treaty. Soviet propaganda attacks on Ade-
nauer's alleged intransigence have been accompanied by
private warnings to Social Democratic leaders by Soviet
Ambassador Smirnov that the USSR's peace treaty offer
is the "last chance" for reunificatioal.
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II. ASIA-AFRICA
Afro-Asian Youth Conference: Nasir appears to be
making a special effort to use the Afro-Asian Youth Con-
ference scheduled for 2-8 February for purely UAR prop-
aganda rather than allow pro-Communist elements to
dominate. A seven-day UAR youth festival has been ar-
ranged to coincide with the conference, and its program
seems to be designed to overshadow-the conference in
some respects. In the conference itself, behind-the-
scenes contests seem likely to occur between African
and Arab elements and among opposing groups within
the Arab world. (Page 3)
Yemen: Crown Prince Badr is reported to have
persuaded the Imam to accept 10,000 tons of Soviet wheat
and blocked formal acceptance of 15,000 tons of American
wheat until the deal with Moscow was approved. Yemeni
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officials, seeking to anticipate possible famine conditions,
had previously estimated that 15,000 tons are the maximum
which Yemen's port facilities can unload during the period
when both US and Soviet shipments are to arrive. Badr,
who is Yemeni foreign minister, pleaded illness for four
days to delay the telegram authorizing Yemen's ambassador
in Washington to sign a wheat agreement with the US.,
Kenya: gome African political leaders in the Britisfi
colony of Kenya are reported planning increased agitation and
perhaps a civil disobedience campaign to coincide with the
visit of Queen Mother Elizabeth, who begins a three-week
tour of Kenya and Uganda on 5 February. British authoritie
have restricted African public meetings until after the visit3
(Page 4)
Cambodia: Premier Sihanouk in a recent speech has ac-
cused Thailand of plotting his overthrow, hinting that the US
and South Vietnam support the Thai plot. This speech, which
outlined the role in the plotting of former Cambodian royal
counselor Sam Sary may foreshadow charges against the West
and SEATO. he Cambodian queen, who has much influence
over her son Sihanouk, is said to feel that Cambodia's policies
must be adjusted in light of Communist China's overwhelming
powesj (Page 5)
III. THE WEST
Argentina: Peronistas and Communists are intensifying
their strike efforts to undermine President Frondizi's policies
and embarrass him during his visit to Washington which begins on
20 January. An anti-US note has been injected into the agita-
tion. Serious as the strikes are, the military seems capable
of controlling the situation. The state of siege qdered on 11
November is still in effect. (Page 6)
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I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
USSR Says Germany FAtes Last Chance ror Reunification
aV-Ioscow is attempting to encourage West German opposition
parties to make a major public issue of Chancellor Adenauer's
rejection of any negotiations on a German peace treaty. In ad-
dition to propaganda attacks on Adenauer's alleged intransigence,
Soviet Ambassador Smirnov has again approached Social Dem-
ocratic leaders, this time to warn that the Soviet peace treaty
offer is the last chance for reunification and that the USSR and
the United States will reach an agreement on the permanent
division of Germany if the Bonn government maintains its pres-
ent attitudg
Emirnov's overture was probably intended to exploit the
Social Democrats' earlier public statements to the effect that
the question of unification has reached a turning point. Thus
far, however, they have abided by their understanding with the
government not to bring this issue to public debate in the Bun-
destag. The SPD in past campaigns against Adenauer's foreign
policy has been careful to differentiate its position from that of
the USSI1.3
the vital requirement is to force Adenauer to abandon
his "cold war" position. He indicated approval of major Social
Democratic foreign policy positions, and said previous SPD sug-
gestions, presumably on European security and disengagement,
are interesting and negotiable. He denied any Soviet intention to
impose an Ulbricht-type regime on a united Germany and said
the USSR only desires a German state whose socio-economic sys-
tem cannot generate a fascist political development. Smirnov
also warned that if the Adenauer government continues to reject
Soviet proposals as propaganda, the USSR may some day break
diplomatic relations with the Federal Republis3
&hairman 011enhauer got the impression that if the West
agrees to a peace conference, the USSR would withdraw its Ber-
lin "ultimatum" and that Moscow would favor negotiations on
European security, based on the Rapacki Plan, before taking u27
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rile drafting of a peace treaty with German participation. Smirnov
indicated his belief that the United States and France would be
agreeable to this procedure but declined to discuss details until
he learned the results of Mikoyan's talks in the United States.
Smirnov reiterated the Soviet position that if the West advances
no counterproposals, the USSR will settle the Berlin question
unilaterally after the six-month grace period expires on 27 May.-I
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II. ASIA-AFRICA
UAR to Host Afro-Asian Youth Conference in February
Cairo is expected to entertain nearly 500 delegates from
about 50 countries during the 2-8 February meeting of the
Afro-Asian Youth Conference. The meeting, subsidized
largely by the UAR Government, is being cosponsored by
the UAR Higher Council for Youth Welfare and the perma-
nent secretariat of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Coun-
cil (AAPSC), whose headquarters are in Cairo.
The UAR apparently hopes to monopolize the sessions
for its own propaganda purposes and has arranged for a con-
current "UAR youth festival," bringing some 2,500 Syrian
youths to Cairo for the event. UAR efforts to dominate the
conference will probably meet resistance from several pro-
Western and neutralist delegations. The UAR itself will prob-
ably be wary of the Communist and pro-Communist delegations,
remembering the efforts of such groups to control the full-
scale Afro-Asian Solidarity Conference held in Cairo in De-
cember 1957.
The youth conference will be followed immediately by the
annual council meeting of the AAPSC which, along with its
permanent secretariat in Cairo, was formed to act asperma-
nent liaison between "solidarity" movements in various coun-
tries.
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Kenya Africans May Launch Civil Disobedience, Campaign
During Queen Mother's Visit
/The 14 elected African members of Kenya's Legislative
Council, who are the principal leaders of African nationalism
in this British crown colony, appear to be planning a campaign
of increased agitation and perhaps civil disobedience during
Queen Mother Elizabeth's visit to Kenya during February
Fite African leaders have already announced their intention
not to associate themselves "in any way" with the royal visit.
they
also plan to exploit the occasion by presenting the government
with a grandiose petition incorporating the nationalists' demands.
Such a petition would undoubtedly highlight long-standing demand
for early round-table constitutional talks through which the
nationalists hope to secure greater immediate representation
in the government and assurances that Kenya will be permitted
to evolve as an essentially African stat)
En addition, the African leaders are said to be consider-
ing ordering a boycott of British goods, flouting the recently
Imposed ban on all African public meetings until after the visit,
and staging public burnings of the passbooks still in use to con-
trol the movements of Africans belonging to tribes from which
the Mau Mau organization recruited its followers. There is evi-
dence, however, of some disagreement among the Africans as
to the wisdom of employing such tactics at this time, and what-
ever measures are adopted are unlikely to be either complete
or colony-widej,
agevertheless3 given the steady rise in political tension in
Kenya in recent months, any stepped-up African agitation could
provoke at least localized disorders. British authorities in
Nairobi expressed the view last month that the nationalists
would attempt a civil disobedience campaign early in 1959 and
that they were prepared to meet any such contingenc.V
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Anti-Western Campaign Developing in Cambodia
Cambodian Premier Sihanouk's recent denunciations of
a "foreign plot" against his government may foreshadow open
charges against the West and SEATO. In speeches in various
provincial centers, Sihanouk has directly accused Thailand
of a military conspiracy against him and has made thinly veiled
accusations of American and South Vietnamese involvement.
Cambodia's official press depicts the plot as aimed at destroy-
ing the country's independence and monarchial system, creat-
ing a government "exclusively favorable to the West' and
undermining Cambodia's friendship for its "great neighbor,"
Communist China.
These developments suggest that a closer accommodation
of Cambodia with the Sino-Soviet bloc may be in the offing.
Strong criticism of the West preceded Sihanouk's initiation of
political and economic relations with the bloc in 1956. Sihanouk,
moreover, has often stated he would turn to the Communists
for support in the event he felt threatened by the West. is
mother, influential Queen Kossamak, is said to have recom-
mended recently that Cambodia adjust its foreign_policies in
recognition of Peiping's "overwhelming power!jg.he reported'
feels that this would offset threats from Western-backed Thai-
land and South Vietnalnj.
A parently undeterredby the knowledge that Sihanouk is now
alerted, Vietnamese and Thai plotters against the Phnom Penh
regime are proceeding with their preparations.
"guerrilla warfare
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III. THE WEST
Argentine Strikers Warned of Firm Measures
In an effort to combat the Peronista- and Communist-
inspired agitation and strikes, the Argentine Government
has threatened a general mobilization of labor under army
control, a step possible under the state of siege in effect
since 11 November. The agitation appears to be primari-
ly politically motivated, and aimed at undermining Presi-
dent Frondili and embarrassing him during his visit to
Washington. Recent bitter attacks against the US-backed
austerity and stabilization program initiated on 1 January
have included the bombing of the USIS office at La Plata
on 18 January.
The pro-Peron unions, supported by the Communists,
called for a general strike on 17 January allegedly to pro-
test the forceful ouster of sit-down strikers from a gov-
ernment-owned packing plant in Buenos Aires. Some 50
Peronista unions, including many important industrial
unions, have supported the strike, cutting off newspapers,
transport, and communication facilities in several pro-
vincial cities as well as Buenos Aires. Excluded are the
railroads, which have been under army control since late
November.
The anti-Peronista unions have declared a state of
alert but are not expected to join the strike now. These
unions controlled almost two thirds of the rank and file
before the union elections, which have been under way
for several months and have helped confuse the trade
union situation.
The military endorses firm action against Commu-
nist and Peronista agitation and seems capable of con-
trolling the situation.
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The Department of Defense
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