CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1959/04/17

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17 APRIL 1959
L THE COMMUNIST BLOC
Khrushchev reportedly fainted at
East Berlin reception last month.
USSR - Reassignment of Ignatov indi-
cates Khrushchev is continuing shake-
up of top Spviet officialdom.
East German premier rejects inclu-
sion of East Berlin in any free-city
proposal.
Soviet internal propaganda suggests
concern over impact of American ex-
hibition in Moscow this summer.
II. ASIA-AFRICA
Iraq reinforces troops on Iranian
frontier after clash with Kurds in
border region.
Imam leaves Yemen for medical
treatment in Italy.
Kuwait security forces being re-
organized; UK plans airlift from
Cyprus if required by any emergency
in Kuwait.
Iran continues efforts for detente with
USSR.
Laos likely to oppose French bi,1 for
continued monopoly on combat train-
ing.
III. THE WEST
UK re-examining decision to sell
heavy arms to Iraq.
French official outlines De Gaulle's
views on tripartite global coordina-
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I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
*Khrushchev:
Berlin on 10 Ma
Khrushchev was said to be pale
and trembling as he left the building some time later.
six days earlier� in Leipzig,
Khrushchev looked "old, sick, and had a very pale complex-
ion," his chin trembled constantly when he was not
talking. Kflrushchev, 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 220
pounds, is 65 years old today, 17 April. He apparently has
a chronic kidney ailment, but is not known to have had faint-
ing spells in the past.�
since about 25 March.),
Khrushchev fainted at a reception in East
pears to be carrying is quie
shake-up of Soviet officialdom into the highest levels of the
party. TASS has announced that N. G. Ignatov, a member of
both the party presidium and secretariat, has been given an
Inconsequential job in the Russian Republic, probably signify-
ing the eclipse of his high party career. The Ignatov shift
follows closely behind the demotion of several second-echelon
officials including I. I. Kuzmin, Soviet planning boss.
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East Germany - Berlin: Speaking to the East German par-
liament on 16 April, Premier Grotewohl categorically rejected
any solution of the Berlin problem which would include East
Berlin in a free city under international control. Acceptance
0-- of such proposals, he said, would violate the sovereignty of
the GDR. Grotewohl emphasized that a German peace treaty
is more important than reunification, but suggested that nego-
tiations between the two German states prior to the foreign
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ministers conference could pave the way for a confederation
which might sign a peace treaty. Grotewohl set the level of
East German participation in the foreign ministers' conference
with the announcement that Foreign Minister Bolz will be the
East German regime's "representative."
USSR propaganda: A recent burst (Pf propaganda in the USSR
on US economic problems is related, in the opinion of the Amer-
ican Embassy in Moscow, to Soviet concern over the potential
impact of the American exhibition scheduled to be held in Mos-
cow this summer. The embassy expects, beside the usual ef-
fort to discredit the capitalist system, a growing volume of
propaganda designed to convince the Soviet citizen that what he
will see at the exhibition are the fruits enjoyed by the favored
fraw nt the exaense of the exploited American worker.
IL ASIA-AFRICA
Iraq-Iran: Baghdad ordered detachments of an
armored regiment to the Iraqi-Iranian border area following
minor clashes between Iraqi border units and Kurdish tribes-
men. Iraqi frontier officials, reporting that armed Iranian
Kurdish tribesmen are preparing' for raids on Iraqi villages,
claim, that regular Iranian Army personnel are 'planning to sup-
port these attacks. During recent months many Iraqi Kurds liv-
ing in the border area have taken: refuge in Iran. Several key
tribal chiefs have requested arms Iv
for o erations into Ira
me am �epa e.' 'eme I ir on � pri o
obtain medical treatment in Italy, leaving his son, Crown
Prince Badr, in charge of the government. The Imam's seri-
ous condition, and the prospect of his departure abroad.? had
0 already led to maneuvering by those ambitious to succeed him.
The Imam's brother and head of Yemen's UN delegation in New
York, Prince Hasan, who is supported by most of Yemen's north-
ern tribal and army leaders, requested on 14 April that he be
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mar, in an attempt to strengthen his position. �
for the eventuality of the Imam's death, had purged key gov-
ernment officials there and appointed two Egyptian officers in
charge of the police. The Sana populace, including the gover-
nor, were reported extremely apprehensivp nvP r fl/Arta
tentions..
Kuwait:Licuwait's military forces are to be reorganized
and 6-w�is-Mated about 1 May into a 1,500-man army and a
1,700-man security force, absorbing the polic0 N:ritish mil-
itary plans for providing emergency assistance to Kuwait, in
accordance with agreements, call for an airlift of the parachut
battalion from Cyprus over Israel and Jordan, and thence alon
the Saudi-Iraqi frontier to Kuwait. (Page 2)
Iran-USSR: The Iranian Government idvised
Its new ambassador to Moscow when presenting his credentials
to express Iran's "good will and eagerness to have friendly rela-
tions with the Soviet Government" and to request that the USSR
also "show fully this good will and eagerness,"
Tehran said, apparently in an at-
tempt to reach a propaganda truce, that it would suspend its anti-
Soviet broadcasts for three days. I the ambassador
was told to send Russian texts of Moscow radio attacks on Iran
as evidence in case Iran decides to make an international issue
of the Roviet nrnna cranAa nnyvvmmiron
.L.m.os:une Laotian Government almost certainly will resist
the proposarParis has made to Washington which would expand
the French military mission in Laos and maintain France's
monopoly over combat training while turning logistical train-
ing over to the US. American officials in the field consider th
A French plan cumbersome, expensive, and too slow in achieving
fr results. De Gaulle personally approved the proposal, however,
and will probably oppose modification on the cYrolinciq that Pranre
4as alrPnriv m2e1cio'llifiCant concessions)
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Britain-Iraq: G4:itain is increasingly concerned over the
growth of Communist influence in Iraq as well as over the
harassment of the Iraq Petroleum Company. London is re-
examining its decision to sell Iraqiarge quantities of heavy
arms, to be delivered in mid-1960.
rrance: (A _Forel gn mlnistry �ilium now says that De
Gaulle wants 'global French-British-American cooperation to
go beyond consultation and include fixed decisions even on
specific questions of strategy. He also wants a division of
geographic areas of responsibility--with Africa going to
France. This statement suggests that Paris will soon re-
new its demand for blanket endorsement of France's North
African pdlicies)
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Top Soviet Leader Apparently Demoted
The shake-up of Soviet party and government officials
which has been proceeding quietly for several months ap-
pears now to be reaching into the top levels of the party.
The announcement on 16 April that Nikolay Ignatov, a mem-
ber of both the party presidium and secretariat, has been
appointed chairman of the presidium of the Russian Replib-
lies Supreme Soviet, probably signals a sharp political de-
cline for him. The post, which makes Ignatov titular presi-
dent of one of the USSR's 15 republics, is largely ceremonial
and without political significance. It was previously occupied
by low-ranking Mikhail Tarasov.
Ignatov, now 58, has been at or near the top of the party
hierarchy for many years. He was brought into the presidium
from a leading provincial party post in -lune 1957, following
the removal of the "antiparty group," and became a party
secretary in December 1957. Although he has remained rela-
tively inconspicuous, there are indications that he has had
some responsibilities in agriculture. He still retains his
party posts, but removal from them may follow.
Since last December, a number of second-ranking figures
have lost their jobs. These include party and government lead-
ers in the Turkmen, Uzbek, and Belorussian Republics, and
Moscow Oblast, as well as Soviet planning chief I. I. Kuzmin.
Although not completely similar in detail, all of these cases
are apparently part of a drive, lead by Khrushchev, to replace
inefficient or corrupt leaders without respect to issues of po-
litical loyalty.
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Kuwait to Reorganize Armed Forces
A reorganization and consolidation of Kuwait's military
unit is scheduled to take place about 1 May. It appears mo-
tivated principally by the growing internal and external threat
from Iraq, and should materially improve the effectiveness
and control of Kuwait's forces)
These forces at present consist of three separate entities
--a �000-man state police, 1,200-man public security force,
and a 1,000-man frontier force�with little or no effective co-
ordination among them. The reorganization will create a
1,500-man army from the old frontier force augmented by 500
personnel from the public security force. The army will con-
sist of three battalion-size, units, partly mobile and equipped
with light armored vehicles. The remainder of the public secu-
rity force will be united with the police into a force of about
1,700 men. One member of the ruling Subah family will be given
a post in each major unit in an attempt to assure its loyalty to
the ruler. Sheik Abdulla Mubarak, the deputy ruler, will remain
in control of all the forces)
British forces in the Persian Gulf, which might assist Kuwait
will remain small. An infantry battalion headquarters and two
companies are based at 73 ahrein; the battalion's other two com-
panies will be stationed in East Africa. An armored car com-
pany will be based at Sharja in the Trucial States, However,
British military planning to provide emergency assistance to
Kuwait, in accordance with existing agreements, includes air-
lift of the parachute battalion on Cyprus over Israel, Jordan, and
thence along the Saudi-Iraqifrontier to Kuwait. Such a movepre-
sumably would require a prior understanding with Israel,
four additional infantry battalions on
Cyprus couia ie airintea to Kuwait if needed, and that there are
sufficient aircraft and supplies in Kenya and Cyprus to support
such an operation)
In a statement to the press on 13 April, UAR Minister of
State Kamal Rifat� who directs clandestine activities, declared
that the UAR,would stand by the "Kuwaiti people" if Iraq's lead-
ers were "foolhardy enough" to invade Kuwait.
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III. THE WEST
Paris Wants Tripartite Areas of Responsibility
F nch President de Gaulle's objective in pressing for
French-British-American discussions on global policy is de-
scribed by a Foreign Ministry official as "not consultation,
but decisions." The official said De Gaulle wants the three
powers to agree on a joint stratey to be followed in specific
situations and also wants a division of geographic areas of
responbility in which "France would be responsible for
Africa:9
Several months ago the French position was presented as
involving common decisions on matters of world-wide impor-
tance through the process of organized consultation. Later
French statements� such as that made to General Norstad by
Chief of Staff General Ely in March, centered more on the de-
sirability of the three powers' making national interests and
policies known so as to enable them to refrain from acting
against each other
views now attributed to De Gaulle, however, suggest
that Paris may next demand a blanket US-British advance en-
dorsement of and support for its policies in Africa, particu-
larly worth Africa, as regards both objectives and implemen-
tation.
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