CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/09/28

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• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2019
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2019
• Publication Date: September 28, 1952

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. Arab delegations expect new emphasis in UN General Assembly
(page 3).
FAR EAST
2. Communist China makes large shipment of gold and dollars to
USSR (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
3. Quirino plans conference to study Asian cooperation (page 4).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
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ureek Prime minister favors postponing-elections (page 0).
EASTERN EUROPE
6. Czechs report gunfight involving two "American espionage agents"
(page 6).
WESTERN EUROPE
7. French Socialist leader warns against rejection of Eden proposals
(page 7).
8. Dutch still fear neglect by NATO defense planners (page 7).
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GENERAL
1. Arab delegations expect new emphasis in UN General Assembly:
In conversations with the American UN
delegation, spokesmen for Egypt, Lebanon,
and Syria have expressed their view that
the Unieed Nations is entering a period of
crisis in which General Assembly deliberations will place emphasis
on problems of individual nations, particularly Near Eastern ones,
rather than on the East-West conflict.
On Near Eastern questions, they added,
an increasing number of countries will vote with the Soviet bloc.
FAR EAST
2. Communist China makes large shipment of gold and dollars to USSR:
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currency were flown from Peiping to Moscow
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in August,
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half the gold and foreign currency which the
Chinese people were forced to surrender during the campaign against
private capitalists earlier this year.
According to the American Consul General
in Hong Kong, these gold and dollar shipments probably represent
partial payment for war materiel and other goods received from the
Soviet Union.
Comment: This strengthens other reports
that the exorbitant levies on private businessmen in the first half of
1952 yielded substantial revenues to the Peiping regime. These levies
enabled the Communist regime to finance military expenditures with-,
out resort to large paper money issues.
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3. Quirino plans conference to study Asian cooperation:
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The President said that he had some hope
of Burmese and Indonesian participation. He indicated that he was
already assured that South Korea and Formosa would take part, but
seemed to fear that they would try to induce the conference to take an
aggressive attitude.
Comment: On 25 September Quirino
publicly announced his plans to call a Southeast Asia conference for
next May. Since his original call for a Pacific Pact in 1949, Quirino
has maintained a keen interest in all Pacific security arrangements
and has tried to make them more inclusive.
The American Embassy in Manila, which
-was not forewarned of the President's announcement, believes
that it may have been motivated in large part by the hope of domestic
political benefits.
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. Greek Prime Minister favors postponing elections:
Prime Minister Plastiras told Ambassador
Peurifoy on 25 September that he is opposed
to new elections this year. He maintained
that an election campaign might produce
anti-American slogans.
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Comment: Apparently Plastiras, who has
insisted that he would win in any immediate elections, now fears that
he cannot do so. His implied threat of anti-American propaganda
appears to be an attempt to persuade the United States, which has urged
early elections, to support his efforts to postpone them.
EASTERN EUROPE
6. Czechs report gunfight involving two "American espionage agents":
Premier Antonin Zapotocky informed the
French Ambassador on 24 September and
all Prague newspapers later reported that
two Czech militiamen were killed on 21
September in a gunfight with two "armed American agents who had
been dropped on Czech territory from Western Germany." The one
"American" who was killed had "arms, radio transmitter, false
identity cards and documents."
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Comment: The Czech Government has
been particularly concerned during the past few Months over the
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possible entry of "American agents" into the country. Minister of
National Security Bacilek laid particular stress on this in a public
address on 8 August announcing a strengthening of the security apparatu&
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7. French Socialist leader warns against rejection of Eden proposals:
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warned that if Germany and Italy continue
their hostility in the Coal-Steel Community
Assembly to the British proposals for estab-
lishing ties between the Council of Europe
and the emerging Community of Six, the French Socialists will vote
against EDC ratification. He told the-American observer at the
Council of Europe that any majority for the EDC that Pinay might
"scrape together" without the Socialists could not be considered a
stable basis of foreign policy.
Comment: Since the dissident Gaullists
have resolved to follow General de Gaulle on foreign policy, the'
Socialists could block French ratification of the EDC -treaty.. This
threat, however, may well be merely an effort to obtain fstrong
American support for Eden's proposals. Last spring, when hope
of close British association with the Continent was fading, IVIollet
appeared willing to accept the EDC without British association.
8. Dutch still fear neglect by NATO defense planners:
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The American Embassy in The Hague reports
that the Dutch are still seriously disturbed
over NATO defense planning and have strong
reservations about Marshal Juin's impar-
tiality as an International commander. They fear that in a military
crisis juin would not hesitate to alter SHAPE plans to the benefit of
France.
Comment: Both the Netherlands and West
Germany have been greatly concerned over Allied strategy in the
event of a Russian attack, particularly since General Juin, during
the Allied military maneuvers in Germany early in September,
appeared to base the Allies' defense on the Rhine, thus risking
abandonment of most of northern Holland to the invader. Subsequent
American assurances have apparently failed to convince either the
Dutch or the Germans that their territory will be defendecL
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