EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006000040010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 22, 1948
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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FRANCE : Increased Socialist pressure effected--Uta
Embassy Pars 1e`feves thet tie Socialists will probably
demand further concessions troin the Government in
-?eturn for their support in the Assembly of the unpopular
tax-es of the (ueuille economic program. Concerning the
attitude of Trench labor toward this program, the Em-
bassy considers the action taken. by the non-Communist
labor unions in ordering a generat strike on 24 September
to be "only the most serious of many indications' of
strong working-class dissatisfaction with the program.
(CIA Comment: CIA believes that because the
Socialists are fearful of facing the electorate next month
with a record of support of various unpopular govern-
jent. policies, they will either obtain from the Govern-
i nt a generai wage increase wt: **ili, by working agains
Queuille-'s economic program, risk the downfail of the
cabinet.)
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GREECE: Reduction in armed forces considered imnossidb --
US General Vaka"1Teet reports from Athens that in the Vitsi
area ;north of Grammos) the gu rrilia forces have been built up
to a strength of 6000-7500 by replacements from training
camps in Yugoslavia, by forced recruiting in Greece, and by
remnants from Grannmo a. Van I' feet says that Vitsi has
taken on the aspects of a second Grammos, with the added
disadvantage that the guerrillas can withdraw into YugosAavia
as well as Albania. He adds that these factors and guerrilla
terror raids throughout Greece have decreased the likelihood
of an "early suppression of ban`aitry'; anti that it is according-
ly impossible at present to reduce the size of the Greek armed
forces.
ARMY review(s) completed.
State Dept. review completed
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