CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1958/09/10

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03156629
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• Document Creation Date: January 27, 2020
• Document Release Date: January 30, 2020
• Publication Date: September 10, 1958

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10 SEPTEMBER 1958
I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
Taiwan Strait - People's Daily warns
that US convoying will info-We "direct
armed conflict"
Peiping announces final phase of
troop withdrawals from Korea.
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Rhee's ambassador says Chinese
Nationalists hope to expand any retali-
ation against mainland into "all-out
war."
Nasir will request Western assistance
for Aswan High Dam.
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III. THE WEST
Finnish President feels hardening
Soviet attitude may require more
flexible cabinet; reorganization
could lead to inclusion of Communist
front.
Dutch will protest in NATO against
US arms shipments to Indonesia.
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USSR making preparations for pos-
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
10 September 1958
DAILY BRIEF
L THE COMMUNIST BLOC
Taiwan Strait situation: In the sharpest warning from
Communist China thus far, the Peiping People's Daily has
said that convoying activity will put the US in a "most pre-
carious situation involving direct armed conflict with China
at any moment," adding that there is no room for "ambiguity
and compromise." It accused the US of "now carrying on its
most dangerous military adventure since the second World
War." The editorial called on the US to solve the "interna-
tional dispute" through peaceful negotiations, but made no
reference to ambassadorial talks.
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Communist China: Peiping has announced that the third
and final phase of its troop withdrawal from Korea will begin
on 25 September. The removal of the remaining 111,000
Chinese Communist troops in Korea is expected to be com-
pleted before the end of the year. (Page 3)
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South Korea: On 3 September Seoul's ambassador to
Taipei, who had been in contact with Chiang, advised Presi-
dent Rhee that the Chinese Nationalists foresaw the possible
development of the offshore islands hostilities into a counter-
attack on the mainland which they would try to expand into
an "all-out war." The ambassador asserted that Korea should
prepare "to march north" and suggested a Korean - Nationalist
Chinese military alliance. Rhee, however, has given no
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indication he intends to exploit the Taiwan Strait situa-
tion