CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/08/26

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• Document Creation Date: October 25, 2019
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2019
• Publication Date: August 26, 1956

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CONTENTS
1. NASR OPPOSED TO INDIAN AS WELL AS WESTERN
PROPOSALS ON SUEZ (page 3).
2._EXTYPT_MAY_O7IN SUEZ PILOTS FROM USSR
(page 4).
3. LARGE MILITARY MOVEMENT NOTED NEAR CAIRO
(page 5).
4. BRITAIN CITES GROUNDS FOR REFUSING RESUMPTION
OF TALKS WITH MAKARIOS (page 6).
5. LEADERS OF ITALIAN SOCIALIST PARTIES REPORTEDLY
REACH UNDERSTANDING "ON ALL PROBLEMS"
(page 7).
6. POLISH GENERAL PURGED UNDER STALIN TO COMMAND
SECURITY FORCES (page 9).
'7. GENERAL STRIKE IN ECUADOR REPORTEDLY PLANNED
FOR 31 AUGUST (page 10)0
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THE ARAB-ISRAE1 SITUATION
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1. NASR OPPOSED TO INDIAN AS WELL AS WESTERN
PROPOSALS ON SUEZ
Comment
the Egyptian regime
has been dismayed to learn that no government at the con-
ference supported the precise terms of the Egyptian posi-
tion. Although the Indian plan as finally proposed was ad-
justed to meet some of Nasr's objections, it retained fea-
tures which, the Egyptian presi-
dent could not accept. It thus appears that Nasr now is
probably seeking a way to open negotiations which will not
commit him to accept either the Western or the Indian plan
even as a basis for discussion.
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2. EGYPT MAY OBTAIN SUEZ PILOTS FROM USSR
Ln Egyptian newspaper on 22
ugust offored Soviet pilots for the canal should British
nd French pilots resign.
Cairo reportedly recognizes that the
pilot shortage is its most serious immediate problem in
operating the canal, and almost certainly would utilize
Soviet personnel if other nationalities are not available.
new
pilots must have second-mate papers and eight to ten years'
experience. The Suez Canal Company previously required
captain's papers and ten years' experience.
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3. LARGE MILITARY MOVEMENT NOTED NEAR CAIRO
A large movement of armor began in
the Cairo area on the afternoon of
23 August, according to the American
military attache in Egypt. This move-
ment, which has so far involved mainly
the transfer of over 100 tanks and self-propelled guns and
other vehicles toward the pyramids defense area and to an
encampment about 14 miles southwest of Cairo, followed
several days of relative inactivity. The attache reports
that as of 24 August large numbers of troops were not yet
in evidence but that the military activity in general had an
air of urgency.
Comment Redeployment of Egyptian armor at this
time suggests that the Cairo regime is
taking the possibility of military action against it more
seriously than it has heretofore. There have been reports
that the regime has become convinced that the United States
is now prepared to accept British and French military ac-
tion if necessary to achieve Western objectives in the Suez
dispute.
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4. BRITAIN CITES GROUNDS FOR REFUSING RESUMPTION
OF TALKS WITH MAKARIOS
Britain's 26 August announcement that it
had "irrefutable" proof of Archbishop
Makariost personal direction of Cypriot
terrorism was intended to fortify its re-
jection of EOKA's demands that British
representatives resume negotiations
with Makarios by midnight of 27 August.
o onia ecre ary Lennox-Boyd stated that a captured
diary of EOKA leader "Dighenis" showed Makarios had pro-
vided money for smuggling arms into Cyprus for the terror-
ists.
Should terrorism resume following the
27 August deadline, the British plan to proceed with seek-
ing support for a constitution may be considerably delayed
in favor of intensified efforts to widen the gap between the
terrorists and the Cypriot population.
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5. LEADERS OF ITALIAN SOCIALIST PARTIES REPORTEDLY
REACH UNDERSTANDING "ON ALL PROBLEMS"
According to the French Press Agency,
Democratic Socialist leader Saragat met
with Italian Socialist Party chief Nenni
in Savoy, France, on 25 August. On his
return to Rome on the same day, Saragat
reportedly made the following statement to the independent
newspaper, La Stampa: "The talks with Signor Nenni were
extremely cordial and thorough. They ended with positive
results. We examined the basic aspects of .a foreign policy
and a domestic policy with a social and democratic basis.
We reached an understanding on all problems."
La Stampa reportedly added that Nenni
had agreed that ItalWforeign policy must be carried out
within the framework of solidarity of the Western democratic
powers, and that a united Socialist party would never form a
government with the Communists.
His refusal
to make an open break with the Communists after the local
elections in May, when both Socialist parties showed gains,
caused the Democratic Socialists to break off negotiations
toward reunification with Nenni's party. He subsequently
is said to have stated there was no need for
announcing such a break, because the unity-of-action pact
was apistorical document which no longer existed.
/Saragat had urged the Italian government to inves-
tigate possibilities of obtaining the support of Nenni Socialists
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following the latter's gains in the 1953 national elections.
� He subsequently appeared to resume his attitude of skepti-
cism toward Nenni's good faith but has been under pressure
from elements in his party who urge reunification.
A reunification of the two Socialist� parties
would bring about a government crisis, since the Nenni So-
cialists and the Liberals refuse to participate in the same
cabinet.
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POLISH GENERAL PURGED UNDER STALIN TO COMMAND
SECURITY FORCES
General Waclaw Komar has been appointed
commander of Poland's Internal Security
Forces, the most important assignment the
Polish regime has yet entrusted to anyone
purged during the Stalinist era. Komar's
'restoration to a responsible position suggests that other for-
mer officials who have recently been rehabilitated, such as
ex-party secretary general Gomulka and former deputy defense
minister Marian Spychalski, may also be given positions of
authority.
Komar now heads a 40,000-man corps re-
sponsible for quelling resistance and guarding important eco-
nomic or strategic installations. He will, however, probably
be subject to close supervision. His pydecessor, Brigadier
General Juliusz Huebner, is now under ecretary of state of
the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which controls the security
forces.
Komar, former head of army intelligence
and later quartermaster general, is Jewish and was arrested
late in 1952 during the anti-Zionist drive and charged with im-
plication in a plot to overthrow the Communist regime. Komar
was in prison until early this year.
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7. GENERAL STRIKE IN ECUADOR REPORTEDLY PLANNED
FOR 31 AUGUST
Ecuadoran president-elect Ponce is se-
riously concerned by reports that a
general strike is being planned for 31
August by anti-Conservative groups.
Comment Camilo Ponce's narrow victory in the
3 June presidential election--in which
he received less tha/30 percent of the popular vote--was
followed by increasing-plotting, an attempted military up-
rising on 6 August, and an attempt to prevent congressional
certification of the election by a short-lived boycott of con-
gress by two anti-Conservative parties. The small Ecuadoran
Communist Party apparently has not made any significant con-
tribution to recent political unrest.
Ponce's inauguration is scheduled for
1 September.
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� THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 26 August)
Nothing of significance to report.
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