CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/02/04

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03157478
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• Document Creation Date: October 25, 2019
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2019
• Publication Date: February 4, 1956

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CONTENTS
1. HIGH-LEVEL SOVIET PLANNERS TO LEAVE FOR
BURMA SOON (page 3).
2. BURMA MAY ASK US FOR LARGE-SCALE ASSISTANCE
(page 4).
3. BONN TO PROTEST ACTIVITIES OF SOVIET AMBAS-
SADOR ZORIN (page 5).
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1� HIGH-LEVEL SOVIET PLANNERS TO LEAVE FOR
BURMA SOON
Comment on:
the USSR has decided to send a high-
level team of industrial and economic
experts and planners to Rangoon in the
neaf future
The high-level nature of this delegation
indicates that Moscow intends to move rapidly to give sub-
stance to Bulganin's and Khrushchev's promises of extensive
co-operation in developing Burmese industry and agriculture.
The proposed visit is the result of party
secretary Khrushchev's statement
that economic experts and planners
would be dispatched to do the "spade work" in advance of the
proposed visit of Soviet leaders Mikoyan, Kaganovich and
Saburov to Burma.
Representatives of GUES have formalized
specific agreements with Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, and it
is likely that their visit to Rangoon would have the same pur-
pose.
Moscow's haste to formalize offers made
less than two months ago is probably designed not only to en-
hance Soviet influence in Burma but to impress other coun-
tries in the area with Soviet ability to dispense economic aid
with dispatch. (Prepared by ORR)
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2. BURMA MAY ASK US FOR LARGE-SCALE ASSISTANCE
A spokesman for Minister of Indus-
tries Kyaw Nyein has informally
sounded out the American ambassa-
dor in Rangoon regarding the possi-
bility of large-scale American financial assistance "for
political purposes." He suggested that this aid might take
the form of a loan, which he hoped could be substantially
written off. Kyaw Nyein was said to be thinking in terms
of $200,000,000, but his emissary indicated that $50,000,000
would be "very helpful."
Comment Although this approach is primarily
aimed at exploiting American con-
cern over Burma's increasing economic ties with the Sino-
Soviet bloc, it probably also reflects the desire of an im-
portant element in the Burmese government to achieve some
balance between Soviet and Western participation in Burma's
development program.
Prior to Bulganin's and Khrushchev's
dramatic offers to Burma during their December visit to
Rangoon, the Burmese government had on several occa-
sions hinted a desire for a resumption of American aid--
provided it could be made to appear as trade rather than
aid.
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3. BONN TO PROTEST ACTIVITIES OF SOVIET
AMBASSADOR ZORIN
West German foreign minister Von
Brentano has drafted a sharp letter
to Soviet ambassador Zorin com-
plaining that Zorin is exceeding the
bounds of normal diplomatic prac-
tices.
Cabinet minister Strauss, who gave
this information to American representatives in Bonn,
declared that Zorin has embarked on an extensive pro-
gram of visiting industrial plants and establishing con-
tacts with Bundestag deputies. Moreover, Zorin has
suggested to industrialists that they pressure the Bonn
government for a trade treaty with Moscow and has crit-
icized the Bonn government to his diplomatic colleagues.
Comment It is probable that the early conclusion
of a Soviet-West German trade agree-
ment is one of Zorin's principal objectives. Since his ar-
rival in Bonn last December, Zorin has stressed in his
talks with Foreign Ministry officials and in public state-
ments the favorable prospects for developing economic
and cultural relations.
The West German ambassador to Moscow
is not expected to take up his post before 1 March. On 3
February, a TASS broadcast complained of unfavorable West
German press articles about the Soviet embassy in Bonn
and alluded to a West German design to "destroy what the
chancellor himself found necessary to speak up for in Mos-
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 3 February)
Nothing of significance to report.
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