CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/08/11

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• Publication Date: August 11, 1957

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OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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CONTENTS
1. SAUDIS MAY BE CONSIDERING NEW ARMS SUPPORT FOR
OMANI REBELS (page 3).
2. TREND TOWARD BONN GOVERNMENT PARTIES REPORT-
EDLY CONTINUES (page 4).
3. PEIPING ORDERS NEW MASS CAMPAIGN FOR PEASANT
COOPERATION (page 5).
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1. SAUDIS MAY BE CONSIDERING NEW ARMS SUPPORT
FOR OMANI REBELS
Comment on:
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Saudi government may be considering
new arms support for the Omani rebels
who were housed, armed, and trained in
eastern Saudi Arabia during 1956 and the
first half of 1957, before they infiltrated
interior Oman to set off the rebellion.
the Egyptian government had indicated willingness to supply
the Omani rebels with arms, but wished Omani requests for
aid to be channeled through the Saudi government.
the Saudi governor of the Eastern
Province, Saud ibn Jiluwi, who is apparently responsible for
relations with the Omanis, had issued a directive "to this ef-
fect."
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2, TREND TOWARD BONN GOVERNMENT PARTIES
REPORTEDLY CONTINUES
Comment on:
The American embassy in Bonn reports
a continuation of the trend it noted in
March toward increased popular support
for the present coalition partners, Chancel-
lor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and the Ger-
man Party (DP).
The embassy points out, however, that:the
outcome of the elections is likely to be decided by the ability
of the opposition parties to convince the undecided voters--
some 15 to 30 percent of those registered--that a change of gov-
ernment is more important than the risks involved. The em-
bassy finds no evidence that they will succeed, believing that
Adenauer's admonitions against "political experiments" will
prove highly persuasive. On the assumption that a heavy turn-
out will improve its chances of winning, the CDU plans to send
a letter from Adenauer to every household in the country in the
last campaign week.
The government's favorable prospects have
apparently shaken the hopes of the opposition Free Democratic
Party (FDP) that it might be able to form a winning coalition with
the Social Democrats (SPD). The FDP is making increasingly
sharp attacks on the SPD, which, however, seems likely to prove
stronger this year than in 1953.
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3. PEIPING ORDERS NEW MASS CAMPAIGN FOR
PEASANT COOPERATION
Comment on:
Orders from the central committee of
the Chinese Communist Party for a mass
effort in "socialist education" among Chi-
na's 500,000,000 peasants indicate Peiping's
growing concern over possible failure of
the Communist program in rural areas. A directive issued
on 8 August calls for immediate action at all levels of the party
to push on with discussions which will give the peasants a "true
appreciation" of the superiority of cooperatives, the necessity
for government purchasing and marketing of farm products, the
relations between urban workers and peasants, and the impor-
tance of suppressing counterrevolution.
The meetings, which will be held in all vil-
lages and cooperative farms, will concentrate first on the grain
delivery question, which is to be dealt with "before the autumn
harvest" due to begin within the next month. The people are
to be warned that unless the problem is solved many will face
"starvation and ruin." Other matters will be taken up in "good
time
This emphasis reflects Peiping's concern
because state procurement of grain, on which the entire eco-
nomic development program depends, is lagging badly. Peiping
has complained that many cooperatives are falsifying production
figures in order to withhold grain for more lucrative sales on the
open market. The demoralizing prospect of a poor crop for the
second straight year will probably accentuate this trend.
While the emphasis of the directive is on
persuasion, reactionaries and counterrevolutionary elements
are to be silenced at once and the masses encouraged to demand
"necessary control." Mass meetings perhaps similar to those
used to enforce the bloody land reform campaign which ended in
1953 are to be held "when necessary." (CONFIDENTIAL)
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