CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/09/25

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
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• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2019
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2019
• Publication Date: September 25, 1952

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SUMMARY
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1. Comment on Chou En-lai's departure from Moscow (page 3).
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2. Effects of UN air offensive in Korea reported (page 3).
3. China-Korea air activity at lowest level since April (page 4).
4. Chinese Communists maintain air alert on Shantung Peninsula
(page 4).
5. Vaccinations against plague in China not considered necessary
(page 5).
SOUTH ASIA
6. Comment on appointment of pro-Communist Indian delegate
to UN General Assembly (page 5).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
7. Cities Service intends to buy oil if Iranian-British negotiations
break down (page 6).
8. Saudi Arabia protests flight of British aircraft over disputed
area (page 6).
9. British army chief favors evacuating troops from Suez base
(page 7).
WESTERN EUROPE
100 French Communists reportedly planning vigorous anti-American
tactics (page 8).
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GENERAL
1. Comment on Chou En-lai's departure from Moscow:
The conclusion of the basic Sino-Soviet
agreements on Soviet economic and military aid to China is
suggested by the departure from Moscow on 22 September of
Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai. On leaving, he cited
the published agreements on the Changchun Railway and Port
Arthur, but emphasized that the talks had included "important
political and economic problems."
Eight members of the Chinese delegation,
including four top economic figures and two military leaders,
still remain in Moscow, presumably working out the details of
unpublished agreements. Similarly, the continued presence in
Moscow of the Mongolian defense minister, following the departure
of the Mongolian premier, suggests further discussion of a tri-
partite agreement involving Outer Mongolia.
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2. Effects of UN air offensive in Korea reported:
The North Korean Army headquarters
has issued a report stating that during
the period from 23 June to 15 August
UN air attacks caused three times as
much damage as in the previous two years,
The report statea tnat oz cities
and 520 villages had been completely or partially destroyed,' with
9,000 civilians killed. The situation was allegedly discussed at
a meeting of a Communist front organization charged with
drafting propaganda to counter the air offensive.
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Comment: These are the first purported
enemy statistics on the effects of the intensified UN air campaign.
3. China-Korea air activity at lowest level since April:
Communist air activity in China and
Korea for the week ending 19 September
reveals a further decline. Averaging
only 125 flights per day, the current
level of activity is the lowest observed
since the fast week in April.
Comment: This low average is due
mainly to decreased jet fighter operations in Korea, which
declined to only 21 flights per day. Activity in China proper
continues high. Over 400 aircraft recently gathered at Peiping,
probably for a 1 October air show.
4. Chinese Communists maintain air alert on Shantung peninsula:
Comment: The 16th Air Division is
equipped with MIG-15 jet aircraft.
the Chinese Communists are maintaining an air alert on. the
Shantung Peninsula.
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5. Vaccinations against plague in China not considered necessary:
On 6 June the Hungarian Trade Mission in
Peiping. advised the Foreign Trade Ministry
in Budapest that vaccinations against
paratyphoid, typhoid, typhus and smallpox
were the only ones rent ired for travel in China.
vaccination against bubonic plague was
considered a "huge waste of time."
Comment: Apparently there was no
bubonic plague epidemic in the Peiping area in early June, and
Satellite representatives there did not take seriously Communist
propaganda charges of plague conditions in Manchuria caused by
US germ warfare. Typhus and smallpox are diseases which the _
US was accused of spreading.
SOUTH ASIA
6. Comment on appointment of pro-Communist Indian delegate to
UN General Assembly:
The announced appointment of V. K.
Krishna Menon to India's UN General Assembly delegation, like
that of K. M. Panikkar as Indian Ambassador to Cairo, places
a very influential pro-Communist in a ntrategic poSition.
Krishna Menon, who until recently was
Indian High Commissioner in London, is violently anti-American
and pro-,Communtst. A close confidant of Prime Minister Nehru,
he was a member of India's UN delegation in 1946 and 1947 and
reportedly advised his colleagues to vote with the USSR on such
issues as disarmament.
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7. Cities Service intends to buy oil if Iranian-British negotiations
break down:
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told Ambassador Henderson on 19
September that if Iranian-British negotiations
break down, he intends to purchase "in-
les ox crude oil for Cities Service and other
American companies.
He has not informed Mossadeq of this
fact. He has, however, told Mossadeq that he will try to find
American specialists to put the new lubiicating plant into production.
Jones added that he would try to find additional technicians in case
Cities Service starts to buy oil.
Comment: Jones appears ready to risk
legal action by AIOC and the disapproval of other major companies.
Vigorous British diplomatic reaction may be expected if Jones
begins to move Iranian oil.
8. Saudi Arabia protests flight of British aircraft over disputed area:
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Britain protesting the flight of aircraft over
the disputed Buraimi area, near the entrance
to the Persian Gulf. The note maintains
e act violates Saudi Arabian sovereignty and threatens, unless
such activities cease, that the case will be referred to the UN
Security Council.
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Comment: Part of the Buraimi area is
claimed by the British-protected Sultan of Muscat. On-15
September the British Charge in Jidda presented to King Ibn
Saud a note protesting the presence of Saudi Arabian troops in
the area and threatening that if they were not withdrawn, Great
Britain would take the necessary steps "to protect its position."
9. British army chief favors evacuating troops from Suez base:
Britain's Secretary of State for War,
Brigadier Head, who conferred in the
Suez Canal zone on 18 September with
British Ambassador Stevenson, believes
that all British troops, with the exception of "technical" and
RAF fighter units, should be evacuated from the zone.
According to Ambassador Caffery, the
low morale of the troops is a primary British consideration.
Comment: On 11 September General
Sir Brian Robertson, commanding officer of the British Middle
East Land Forces, informed an American official that to hasten
a settlement with Egypt on the Suez problem, the British
military might concede more than they should from a military
viewpoint.
In the past Great Britain has rejected
suggestions that even a token withdrawal should be undertaken
in order to facilitate a settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute.
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WESTERN EUROPE
10. French Communists reportedly planning vigorous anti-American
tactics:.,
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A propaganda effort to represent Americans
as enemies of the French will be started in port areas and will lead up
to a ,mass_ demonstration and a march on the American Consulate
at-Bordeaux. Plans for November and December call for French
nationals to provoke more serious incidents with individual Americans
and for the Sabotage of American troop trains and equipment.
Comment There is no other information
to substantiate this report. The plan as reported would be a reversal
of the trend in current French Communist policy, which since the
failure of the May demonstrations has been to avoid direct action,
to emphasize the workers' economic demands, and to employ
united-front tactics.
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