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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A005800040010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 11, 1946
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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1. Soviets r escind fl hid t ban over fugSary--US Delegation ACC Hungary
reports that the Soviets have given no explanation for removing the ban
on Allied flights over Hungary. (The reported ban on flights over Cze-
choslovakia apparently was never imposed but flights over Rumania are
still prohibited.) The Delegation speculates that the reversal of the
original Soviet decision was due (a) to a change in troop movement
schedule or destination; (b) to the completion of troop movements; or
(c) to a mistake or internal quarrel in the Soviet sector ACC.
2, USSR favors Parts as H' Head carters--The US Dele ation in New York
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USSR now favors Paris as the site of permanent UN headquarters.
3. US to re ect Soviet protest on travel restrictions iutal--The State
Department has instructed Embassy Moscow to reply to the Soviet pro-
test over "obstacles" placed in the way of Soviet representatives in
Italy by noting both that
the alleged restrictions are far less rigid than those imposed on US
representatives in Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, and that Soviet repre-
sentatives in Italy have indicated their complete satisfaction with present
arrangements.
EUROPE
4. POLANDNti ola plea to Stalin--US Ambassador Lane has ob-
tained a copy of a.3 October letter from Mikolajczyk to Stalin which
defends the Peasant Party's internal. and foreign policies and attacks
the Communist Party for its persecution, political shackling and terror-
ization of the Peasant Party. The letter also states that the Polish
masses have transferred their hatred of the Polish Communist Party
to the USSR and the Soviet Army, to the dear tmeat of the friendly Polish-
Soviet relations which the Peasant Party seeks to establish.
5. ALBANIA: A l b a n i a n Red Cross retests anti-malarial ors--US Repre-
sentative ;~ cobs in Tirana reports, with reference to a request by the
Albanian Red Cross aor 15 million doses of anti-malarial drugs to
combat an epidemic, that the malarial season is practically over and
THE C.I.A. HAS NO OBJECTION
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that such a request appears to be an effort to build up stocks for other
purposes. He reports that the UNRRA mosquito control program was
recently cancelled because of the Government's "unwarranted" suspi-
cion of UNRRA personnel,
6. GERMANY: Soviet journalists to visit US zone--Murphy reports that
the Soviets have made a surpriserequest for permission for 50
Soviet journalists to visit the US zone, which cannot be refused since
an even larger number of US journalists recently have visited the
Soviet zone as guests of the USSR.
7. TANGIER: French hesitate over sponsorship of Sultan's trip.-The
French Foreign Office has told Embassy s , the and UK
Governments anticipate unfortunate repercussions from the Sultan of
Morocco's proposed visit to Tangier, the French "Will consider sug-
gesting" a postponement to the Sultan, but will, "of course," tell the
Sultan that the suggestion is due to strong US and UK opposition. Ambas-
sador Caffery adds that he can see no compelling reason for postponing
the visit.
S, PORTUGAL: Present situation unclear--US Military Attache Lisbon
reported at 0696 Lisbon time on 1 Ober (a) the start of a movement
against the Government "In various provincial cities," (b) severance of
communications to points outside Lisbon, and (c) opposition plans for a
4 `revolt by all units outside of Lisbon" followed by a march on the capi-
tal. Embassy Lisbon earlier reported its inability to communicate with
the US Consul in Oporto, where, according to an official Portuguese
communique of 0500 on 10 October, 80 "Army officers and soldiers,"
later arrested at Coimbra, began a march south.
NEAR EAST-AFRICA
9. LEBANON: Resentment increased by Dewey a tech--US Military Atta-
che Beirut reports that Lebanese resentment over President Truman's
Palestine statement has been greatly increased by Governor Dewey's
similar remarks. He adds that this resentment is now assuming
of menacing proportions."
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US Charge Beirut reports that, according to prevailing local
opinion, secret resolutions of the Arab League Conference at Bludan
will now be put into effect including abrogation.of oil, aviation, pipe-
line and other agreements between Arab countries and the US' and a
general boycott of US goods..
FAR EAST
10. KOREA: North Korean cultural mission--The former Chinese Consul
General at Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has informed the US Consulate in
Vladivostok that the "North Korean delegation" which has' recently
been visiting the USSR is composed almost entirely of Soviet nationals
and Party members who have lived in Uzbekistan since the mass
deportations of Chinese and Koreans from the border regions of
Siberia ten years ago. After the defeat of japan they were re-
turned to Korea as agitators, posing as genuine Koreans.
vftp~ 11. CHINA: Chinese o ose US air rights over Manchuria Embassy
Nanking reports that Chinese negotiators have sugge'ed the elimina-
tion of Mukden as an international traffic point from the proposed
Sino-US civil air agreement, and have hinted that granting US lines
the right to fly over Manchuria might set a precedent which would
compel them to grant the same right to the USSR at some later date.
THE AMERICAS
Department has directs ng area or es to begin nego ations with
12, PANAMA: Definitive base agreement negotiations to begin- -The State
the Panamanian Government for a definitive agreement concerning
base sites in the Republic without concluding an interim agreement
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