CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/09/26

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2019
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2019
• Publication Date: September 26, 1957

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OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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CONTENTS
61-4?� 1. NEW SOVIET ECONOMIC PLAN TO BE DRAFTED FOR
1959-1965 PERIOD (page 3).
YU) 2. NASIR LAUNCHES PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AGAINST
SAUD (page 4).
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(page 5).
71.,0 4. IRAQIS OPPOSE MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA
(page 6).
5. EGYPT READY TO
7/-6 ALGERIAN REBELS
FROM SYRIA TO
(page 7)
6. JOINT LABOR ACTION THREATENS FRANCE'S ANTI-
INFLATIONARY DRIVE (page 8).
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1. NEW SOVIET ECONOMIC PLAN TO BE DRAFTED FOR
1959-1965 PERIOD
Comment on:
On 25 September, Moscow radio broad-
cast a joint announcement by the party
central committee and government Coun-
cil of Ministers that by 1 July 1958 the
State Planning Commission would draft
a new long-term plan covering the 1959-1965 period. The
announcement makes no reference to the 1960 goals of the
Sixth Five-Year Plan. The statement reiterates the general
objective of "catching up" with the West and approvingly cites
the recently stepped-up housing and agricultural programs
and the reorganization of industry as factors which must be
incorporated in the new plan.
This decision implies that the Sixth Five-
Year Plan, whose overambitious goals have been in process
of revision since December 1956, has been abandoned. On the
face of it, the decision would appear to serve Khrushchev's
political interest, since it lengthens the testing period of his
industrial reorganization program and puts off the time when
the various economic goals he has laid out can be measured
against results.
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2. NASIR LAUNCHES PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN
AGAINST SAUD
Comment on:
Nasir reportedly has ordered a Cairo
press campaign against King Saud which
began in the government-controlled Al
Ahram on 23 September. One item re-
ferred to the King's dealings with former
Syrian dictator Shishakli in such a way as
to reflect on the King's loyalty to Arab
nationalism. The newspaper also reports
Saud's purchase in Germany of $1,500,000 worth of Mercedes-
Benz cars and, insinuating profligacy on the part of the monarch,
says he is supporting former queen Narrimano
Nasir reportedly was angered by Saudis
stopover in Beirut en route to Baden Baden and his contacts in
Germany with exiled anti-Nasir Egyptians. He was probably
further irritated by the King's decision to bypass Cairo on his
way home.
Saud's desire to promote
Arab unity, however, makes it unlikely that he will permit an
open break with Nasir unless the Cairo press campair against
him is prolonged.
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3. REPORTED RIFT WITHIN SYRIAN RULING CLIQUE
is growing within
the present ruling faction in Syria0
the rivalry between Hawrani and Defense
Minister Azm has intensified since Azm's
"triumphal" return from Moscow and that
Hawrani and Communist leader Bakdash
are feuding because of alleged sarcastic remarks made by Haw-
rani concerning the importance of the Syrian Communist party.
There are also reports that a power strug-
gle between Baathist elements in the army and followers of Chief
of Staff Bizri is reaching serious proportions with each faction
attempting to "purge" the other's supporters from influential
positions.
Even if these factional disputes break into
the open, there is little likelihood that this would affect Syria's
attitudes toward the West. The Baathists are as ideologically
opposed to the West as are the proponents of more Syrian-Soviet
collaboration. A split within the radical nationalist grouping
would present the Soviet Union with a problem as to which fac-
tion it would support. Prolonged internal dissension in Syria
would tend to retard Syrian subversion in Iraq, Jordan, and
Lebanon.
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4. IRAQIS OPPOSE MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA
Iraqi Minister of Interior General
Fattan told the American ambassador
on 24 September that any Turkish in-
tervention in Syria would provoke "se-
rious demonstrations" in Iraq. The minister believes that
if Iraq alone, or with another Arab state, were to intervene
militarily in Syria, there would be a popular upheaval of
"catastrophic proportions" and trouble within the Iraqi armed
forces themselves. Fattan said that no prime minister, "not
even Nun i Said," could order military intervention in Syria
and remain in office. Fattan believes the situation can be
retrieved only from within Syria.
Comment
The Iraqi government, in reply to a recent Syrian note, has
denied that it feels threatened by Syrian internal developments,
and has said that it would, of course, come to Syria's aid if
that country were attacked.
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5. EGYPT READY TO FORWARD MUNITIONS FROM SYRIA
TO ALGERIAN REBELS
a ship would be sent for the cargo.
Comment The cargo referred to is probably the 100
tons of ammunition
shipment was being de-
layed "for the moment."
The large supplies of weapons and ammu-
nition accumulating in Syria suggest that Arab deliveries to the
Algerian rebels of materiel, including items originating in the
bloc, are being increased.
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6. JOINT LABOR ACTION THREATENS FRANCE'S ANTI-
INFLATIONARY DRIVE
Comment on:
Members of France's three rival labor
confederations appear to be planning
more joint strike activity than at any
time in the past four years to enforce
demands for new wage hikes.
The leaders of the Socialist-oriented
Workers' Force (F0) claim they have little prospect of re-
straining their followers in view of the support given by the
Christian Workers'Confederation (CFTC) to agitation by the
Communist-led General Labor Confederation (CGT). In the
key metallurgical industry, components of all three major con-
federations have already scheduled one joint local 24-hour
walkout for 26 September, and another called by the FO for
27 September will also probably be backed by the other two
groups.
Labor's demands, intensified by the gov-
ernment's concessions to the farmers, threaten to disrupt the
government's anti-inflationary program. The CFTC has al-
ready lined up with the CGT and the railroad federations on a
tentative 48-hour rail strike for the first week in October. A
further test of labor sentiment may come on 17 October, when
the CGT has scheduled a mass strike demonstration on both
the Algerian problem and the economic issue.
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