CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/06/05

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• Document Creation Date: September 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: June 5, 1955

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. Soviet officials fopter "neutral belt" speculation (page 3).
2. Communist parties confused on interpretation of Soviet-Tito talks
(page 4),
FAR EAST
3.
4.
SOUTHEAST. ASIA
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Algerian disorders said to be directed by North African committee
in Cairo (page 6).
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GENERAL
1. Soviet officials foster "neutral belt" speculation:
Several Norwegian diplomatic missions
have reported that Soviet officials, in
discussing a European neutral belt, have
expressed "personal" views that it was
reasonable to suppose that some neutralization would have to take
place in the Satellites.
The source, a Norwegian Foreign Min-
istry official, took this to be a hint that the USSR might offer to
neutralize Poland and Czechoslovakia in return for major West-
ern concessions, presumably including similar status for a unified
Germany.
He also thought such remarks might presage
a campaign to persuade Denmark and Norway of the advantages of
joining a neutral belt, and thought this might prove dangerously at-
tractive to the Danish public but considerably less so in Norway.
Comment: Moscow is apparently attempt-
ing to exploit Western speculation on a neutral belt to encourage
neutralist sentiment in specific countries. In Pravda on 22 May
and in its 26 May note accepting the Western proposals for a sum-
mit meeting, the USSR sharply attacked suggestions that the status
of the Satellites should be discussed.
Increasing speculation on a neutral belt
would give impetus to neutralism in Denmark and Norway, but would
not be sufficient to jeopardize their membership in NATO.
The Scandinavian countries have been
skeptical of Soviet motives in Germany and would probably welcome
a neutralization of Satellite countries as an indication of Soviet good
intentions.
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2. Communist parties confused on interpretation of Soviet-Tito talks:
"Complete disorientation" exists in the
Italian Communist Party as a result of
the Soviet approaches to Tito.
The head of the
party press and propaganda office is (des-
cribed as replying, in answer to numerous
inquiries, that the events should be treated
as straight news with absolutely no comment. Sicilian Communist
leaders are described as reacting with "amazement and dismay."
The clandestine Greek Communist radio
station, presumably in Bucharest, has presented only the facts of
the developments and has avoided giving: a line. Greek Communists
reportedly are perturbed because they feel the move shows Soviet
weakness. The Greek Communist Party over a period of time has
purged leaders, including the civil war leader Markos Vafiades, for
suspected Titoist tendencies.
Comment: Initial indecision is also sug-
gested by the scant and straight reporting in the Communist press
of other non-Orbit countries. The apparent lack of guidance, as
well as the difficulty of handling the more specific ideological prob-
lem of "national communism" inherent in "Titoism," could account
for the confusion and indecision among Communist parties. Except
for the Trieste party, however, no other Communist party has been
publicly critical of the Ithrushchev approach to Tito.
FAR EAST
3.
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NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Algerian disorders said to be directed by North African committee
in Cairo:
A committee of extremist North African
nationalist leaders in Cairo, charged with
co-ordinating Algerian, Moroccan and
Tunisian nationalist movements, is direct-
ing guerrilla activities in eastern Algeria,
Moroccan Istiqlal leader:� Al1al el- Fassi is said
to be one of the chief strategists for over-all North African resist-
ance. Algeria was given priority over Morocco as a center of re-
sistance because the Cairo committee believed the element of sur-
prise would be advantageous to the nationalists there.
Moroccan nationalists are recruiting, among
Moroccans who are members of quasi-military French units, some
of which have recently been transferred to eastern Algeria.
External aid is mainly finand
supplied by Pakistan and Iraq.
and about, zu young Moroccans are being trained
at the Iraqi military academy.
by other sources.
Comment: In general this report is confirmed
There has been no evidence of successful co-
ordinal.on of action among the movements, which appears to point up
the difficulties of directing an informal and unwieldy organization from
a detached headquarters. Recent reports from Algeria indicate, how-
ever, that the guerrillas there are improving their organization and
tactics.
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