CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/07/06

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CURRENT
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6 July 1957
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OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This document contains classified information affecting
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meaning of the espionage laws, US Code Title 18, Sections
793, 794, and 798. The law prohibits its transmission
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CONTENTS
. DENUNCIATION OF PUI7ED SOVIET LEADERS BECOMES
SHARPER (page 3).
I) 2. USSR ORDERS CONCESSION ON cOMPULSORV DELIVERY
OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS (page 6).
66. CHINESE COMMUNIST RESPONSE TO SOVIET PURGE
(page 7).
06. TOP-LEVEL YUGOSLAVS TO VISIT USSR
US EMBASSY COMMENT&OT REPORTED UNREST IN
CZECHOSLOVAKIA (page 9).
6. SITUATION IN EAST INDONESIA
(page 8).
(page 10).
Ait) 7. EGYPT ARRANGES ',GIFT" OF ARMS TO LIBYAN ROYAL
GUARD (page II).
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1. DENUNCIATION OF PURGED SOVIET LEADERS
BECOMES SHARPER
Comment on:
A rising note of harshness has begun to
appear in denunciations of Malenkov,
ICaganovich and Molotov in the press and
mass meetings. Some of the charges are
assuming an aspect which could provide
the basis for criminal proceedings against
them. The actions of the purged leaders
have been variously described as "criminal"
and "traitorous," and the army newspaper
Red Star has reportedly accused them of playing into the hands
of "the enemies of the state," and of "undermining the defensi-
ability of our country."
Reports that the ousted trio are under house
arrest in Moscow and that a commission has been set up to pre-
pare criminal charges against them are unconfirmed. Although
the purged party leaders have been stripped of their government
posts since the 3 July announcement, they are still nominally
party members. Their retention in the party has been cited in
one Moscow broadcast as proof that Stalinist methods have been
rejected, and this is a consideration which would tend to restrain
the hand of the victorious IChrushchev faction.
On the other hand, the purge victims may
still have considerable prestige and some remnants of political
support Short of expulsion from the party or criminal pro-
ceedings, a campaign of denunciation and a turnover of party of-
ficials at lower levels may not be enough to cancel out such influ-
ence.
(See following pages for composition of the
new party presidium,)
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COMPOSITION OF THE NEW PRESIDIUM
CPSU CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Full Members
Other Party and/or Government
Poste
(*denotes government post)
Aristov, Averky B.
Belyayev, Nikolai 1,
Brezhnev, Leonid I.
Bulganin, Nikolai I.
Furtseva, Yekaterina A.
Ignatov, Nikolai G.
Khrushchev, Nikita S.
ICirichenko, Aleksei I.
Kozlov, Frol R.
Kuusinen, Otto V.
Mikoyan, Anastas 1,
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Secretary, Central Committee. Mem-
ber, Central Committee Buro for RSFSR.
Secretary, Central Committee, Deputy
Chairman, Central Committee Buro for
RSFSR.
Secretary, Central Committee.
*Chairman, USSR Council of Ministers.
Secretary, Central Committee. 1st
Secretary, Moscow City Party Com-
mittee.
Member, Central Committee Buro for
RSFSR. 1st Secretary, Gorky Oblast
Party Committee.
1st Secretary, Central Committee,
Chairman, Central Committee Buro
for RSFSR.
1st Secretary, Ukrainian Party Cen-
tral Committee,
Member, Central Committee Buro for
RSFSR. 1st Secretary, Leningrad Ob-
last Party Committee.
Secretary, Central Committee.
*1st Deputy Chairman, USSR Council
of Ministers.
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Full Members
Other Party and/or Government
Posts
(*denotes government post)
Shvernik, Nikolai M.
Suslov, Mikhail A.
Voroshilov, Kliment Ye.
Zhukov, Georgy K.
Candidate Members
Kalnberzin, Yan. E.
Kirilenko, Andrei P.
Korotchenko, Derayan S.
Kosygin, Aleksei N.
Mazurov, Kirin T.
Mukhitdinov, Niritdin A.
Mzhavanadze, Vasily P.
Pervukhin, Mikhail G.
Pospelov, Pyotr N.
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Chairman, Party Control Commission.
Secretary, Central Committee.
*Chairman, Presidium, Supreme Soviet
(titular chief of state).
*USSR Minister of Defense.
1st Secretary, Latvian Party Central
Committee.
Member, Central Committee Buro for
RSFSR. 1st Secretary, Sverdlovsk
Oblast Party Committee.
*Deputy Chairman, Presidium USSR
Supreme Soviet.
*Chairman, Presidium Ukrainian SSR
Supreme Soviet.
*1st Deputy Chairman, USSR Council of
Ministers.
1st Secretary, Belorussian Party Cen-
tral Committee.
1st Secretary, Uzbek Party Central
Committee.
1st Secretary, Georgian Party Central
Committee.
*USSR Minister of Medium Machine
Building.
Secretary, Central Committee.
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2. USSR ORDERS CONCESSION ON COMPULSORY DELIVERY
OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Comment on:
Compulsory agricultural deliveries to
the state from private plots will be abol-
ished next January under a Soviet decree
of 4 July. This concession had been pro-
posed by Khrushchev on 22 May. In the
recent central committee resolution ousting Malenkov, Molotov
and Kaganovich, they were charged with opposing this "press-
ing measure" of vital importance.
This incentive measure is part of the pro-
gram to overtake the United States in per capita meat, milk
and butter production in the next few years--a program which
the ousted faction allegedly opposed. The final paragraph of
the agricultural decree referred to this program and emphat-
ically stated "there can be no doubt that this task will be ful-
filled."
Khrushchev feels that these obligatory de-
liveries can be eliminated because they now are only a small
part of total deliveries to the state, and should be done away
with in order to "create a better political atmosphere in the
farm areas." Meat deliveries from privately owned livestock,,
which constituted 23 percent of total meat deliveries to the state
in 1952, will fall to only 10 percent in 1957, according to Khru-
shchev. During the same period, milk deliveries from privately
owned cows will have fallen from 31 percent of the total to 7 per-
cent.
Khrushchev presumably feels that this meas-
ure will work to increase total output. In his 22 May speech,
Khrushchev indicated that the collective farms would make up
for the former compulsory deliveries from private plots. Never-
theless, the USSR will be unable to achieve Khrushch est
livestock production goals.
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3, CHINESE COMMUNIST RESPONSE TO SOVIET PURGE
Comment on:
The Chinese Communist Party, in a
cable to the Soviet party on 5 July,
responded favorably to the purge of
the Soviet presidium. Peiping's brief
message thanked the Soviet party for
having informed the Chinese, through Ambassador I'mlin,
of the resolution on the "antiparty group of Malenkov, Kaga-
novich and Molotov." The cable expressed Peiping's confi-
dence that the action "will help unite and consolidate" the
Soviet party, and concluded with an affirmation of continued
Sino-Soviet unity in the common cause.
Peiping has already publicized the full
text of the Soviet party's resolution on the purge, and an ex-
tended Chinese treatment of it will probably be forthcoming.
The purge can in part be plausibly presented by Peiping as
Soviet action along lines with which the Chinese have been in
agreement and along which they had encouraged Moscow to
proceed further. Peiping has agreed with Moscow on the
need for correcting Stalin's errors, and in the past year has
suggested that it would welcome the removal of remaining
exponents of those errors, both in the USSR and in the Satel-
lites.
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4. TOP-LEVEL YUGOSLAVS TO VISIT USSR
Comment
On 5 July, a spokesman for the Yugoslav
�Foreign Secretariat confirmed press re-
ports that vice presidents Kardelj and
Rankovic would "holiday" soon in the USSR.
He said it was a "quite normal assumption"
that they would have meetings with Soviet
leaders.
Tito, apparently with foreknowledge of the
purge, decided to avail himself of the new
situation in the hope of easing the strained relations between
Moscow and Belgrade which he has generally attributed to the
presence of Stalinists within the Kremlin. Belgrade has main-
tained that, among the Soviet leaders, Khrushchev is the most
sympathetic to its position.
It is unlikely that the Yugoslays will concede
on any of their basic ideological views which have brought them
into conflict with the USSR. More likely, they hope that Khru-
shchev will agree to their validity. The initial official reaction
in Belgrade to the purge is that it comes "not as a sensation but
as a logical step in present-day development in the USSR and world
socialism." Realization of the agreement for rapprochement
reached by Tito and Khrushchev in 1955 now is hailed by the Yugo-
slays as possible.
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5. US US EMBASSY COMMENTS ON REPORTED UNREST
IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Press reports in London, maintaining
that discontent in Czechoslovakia is ap-
proaching the rebellious mood in Poland
just before the Poznan riots, are greatly
exaggerated, in the opinion of the American embassy in Prague.
The embassy notes, however, a growing feeling among the pop-
ulation that internal and external pressures will force some
evolutionary changes in the Czech regime's Stalinist inflexibil-
ity. In addition, anti-Soviet feeling has grown since the USSR's
intervention in Hungary last fall.
Since last October, the Czech regime has
been concerned over liberal tendencies and has adopted various
policies and measures designed to curb revisionist expressions.
The embassy does not believe the antiliberal speeches at the re-
cent central committee plenum reveal "extreme" nervousness
over internal disaffection as some reports have stated, since
the regime has reacted similarly before. On the other hand, the
new purges in Moscow will undoubtedly encourage liberal ele-
ments.
The embassy believes, nevertheless, that
the catalytic conditions necessary to transform active disaffec-
tion into rebellious temper do not presently exist. In particular,
Czech economic conditions are better than those in Poland, and
the considerable and continuing press debate between conserva-
tive and liberal elements which has been noted in Poland and
elsewhere has not been observed in Czechoslovakia. On the con-
trary, Czech intellectuals have reacted in a dispirited way to
stern regime warnings against revisionism.
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6. SITUATION TAT V. Agrr mrrtrykrnacT
Comment on:
Indonesian army chief of staff General
Nasution and the Djakarta government
have suffered another setback in their
attempts to resolve East Indonesian dis-
sidence, led by Lt. Col. Sumual. "Gov-
ernor" Manoppo of the province of North
Celebes on 3 July declared that his area,
"tired of waiting" for economic relief from
Djakarta, will attempt to become econom-
ically independent by engaging in its own
barter trade of copra, spices and coffee.
This announcement, which gives quasi-
official sanction to long-existing smug-
gling activities, follows by several days
General Nasution's most recent peace-
making trip to Celebes.
Sumual, former commander in East Indo-
nesia, reportedly declared the establishment of the North Celebes
Province on 20 June following Djakarta's failure to accede to his
plans for a volitical redivision of East Indonesia.
Nasution "deeply regretted" Sumual's deci-
sion to set up this administrative area and stated, "I should
make it clear...the province
be given legal standing."
it is doubtful that Nasutio any mg s or o using
force to overcome Sumual, and army headquarters personnel in
Djakarta are wondering how Nasution can extricatehimelf from
the present situation without loss of face.
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7� EGYPT ARRANGES "GIFT" OF ARMS TO LIBYAN
ROYAL GUARD
Comment The royal guard is a unit of the Cyrenaican
Defense Force (CYDEF), a provincial mil-
itary organization independent of and often at odds with the Lib-
yan central army, whose equipment is largely furnished by the
United States and Britain. In giving equipment to the guard,
through the assistance of the pro-Egyptian al-Shalhi, the Egyp-
tians appear to be putting new effort into their program support-
ing potential antigovernment elements in Libya. More direct
subversive activity resulted in the ejection of their military at-
tach�ast November.
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