CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/11/29

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: November 29, 1953

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. Strong sentiment in France and Germany for talks with USSR
(page 3).
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2. Rhee accepts NNRC nations as observers at Korean political
conference (nage RI
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4. Construction of airfield in Burmese insurgent-held territory
confirmed (page 5).
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6. Spanish army minister reportedly hostile to base agreements
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GENERAL
1. Strong sentiment in France and Germany for talks with USSR:
The French Foreign Ministry expects the 3.3(h)(2)
latest Soviet note to reawaken a "widespread
latent demand" in France that nothing be done
on the EDC until after four-power talks, which
it now considers "unavoidable." Foreign Minis-
try spokesmen believe that the EDC has suffered
a very serious reverse in the past few days.
They told American minister Achilles that
January is probably the most likely time for four-power talks, in view
of the "crowded" December calendar. They prefer a Swiss site, and
assert Berlin is entirely unacceptable.
In the opinion of American officials in Bonn,
Allied rejection of the Soviet note would provoke an adverse reaction in
West Germany, where public opinion expects the Allies to grasp any
opportunity for a four-power meeting to determine Soviet intentions on
the German unity question.
Comment: The debate just concluded in the
French National Assembly marked the first time since the war that a
government had been faced with defeat on a foreign policy issue. Although
the government survived, France's whole participation in Western defense
plans could now be threatened by an ostensibly sincere Soviet offer to
neutralize Germany.
The main hope for French EDC ratification
rests on the fact that without the Popular Republicans, who are solidly
behind EDC, no government can be formed in the present assembly.
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2. Rhee accepts NNRC nations as observers at Korean political conference:
President Rhee and his cabinet have accepted
Ambassador Dean's proposal to include India,
Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czechoslovakia,
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the members of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission in
Korea, as nonvoting observers at the Korean political conference.
Foreign Minister Pyun told Ambassador
Briggs on 27 November that South Korea would not force a rupture
of either the preliminary talks or the political conference if the Indians
were seated as observers, provided they were not designated as "neutrals."
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
4. Construction of airfield in Burmese iinsurgent-held territory confirmed:
The American air attache in Bangkok has 3.3(h)(2)
confirmed the presence of an airfield, pos-
sibly adequate for C-47's, in Burmese terri-
tory just west of the Thai border and east of
When the attache's plane flew over, workmen on
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the port of Moulmein.
the field dispersed.
Comment:
the Karen insurgents in I3urma and the Chinese
Nationalists, and of airfield construction in Karen-held territory. Actual
construction of an airfield is a strong indication that Taipei intends to
exploit the Karen tie after the present partial evacuation is completed.
By basing themselves in Karen areas, the
Nationalists could maintain their hold on the lucrative opium traffic.
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6. Spanish army minister reportedly hostile to base agreements:
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may soon remove Army Minister Augustin
Munoz Grandes from his post because of
the latter's outspoken opposition to the Ameri-
can base agreements and his unpopularity in the army.
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Comment: Munoz Grandes, an influential
and forceful commander feared by many subordinates, has been quoted
as saying that, as former commander of the Spanish Blue Division which
fought with the Nazis in Russia, he cannot wholeheartedly accept military
collaboration with the Americans. Most Spanish army officers are re-
portedly in favor of the agreements.
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