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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006000040037-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: August 20, 1948
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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USSR disc roves certain US f1 to Vienna..-General Timer--
Commanding General U nrres Austria, reports that be
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to permit Pan American Atr ave to make eight flights rlirecftry
from Prague to Vte althoigh t Soviet Air Dfvistor, in
Vienna has disannroved tour ref these flights. Keyes i-ill invoke.!'
the 1946 tt drinar~-i.ke a re 1rnent nera-iittia "ur_; n_t f1t 'hts"
into Vienna.
(VIA. Comment: The Soviet ncruratle-vol authorities
have repeatedly contended ttwit the 1946 agreement doses net
cover flights by civil air lie:;. The USSR, therefore, is likely
to exert pressure in Prague to block the disapproved flight
schedule. Failing tlhils. It may'ise these increased "violations`"
as an excuse Ior attempting Vi impede all US air access to the
Vienna area.)
AUSTRIA: Soviet kfclnaP_in of A f XL_r " sw_TTS t "r
Vienna notes that US officio )s to Austria have no effectfaa meats
to prevent the kidnaping of Au utr n offtclals in the Sfl 1dt 7 0
car In the international %one ct, rtn! those months when the USSR
has t h e chairnrtanshin o f t h e A llled Control Council (ACr1 The
Legation believes, therefore, that If western protests to tl
Council on this sub)eet prove fruitless and if there are further
Soviet kidnapings of important Austrian officials, the matter
should be presented to the UN. The Legation points out that
further kidnapings would so undermine the morale of tt Acts
srlan administrators in the Soviet Zone that all of their power
would pass to the Soviet authorities--a development which in
effect would establish a partition of Austria.
~C IA Comment: Furihi r Soviet seizure of t mpc r `. nt
Austrian officials would also reduce the effectiveness and the
prestige of the Austrian Government and the ACC,)
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...t. PALESTIN :: JS believed atte to ov3ke "ostdtties,
U5 C onsul Cow ral i aCd d reps from rasa em
sews have made every effort to build up a case against the Arabs
as violators of the present truce. He considers that the a
are actually attempting to provoke an incident which would per
mit the resumption of hostilities but which could not be conc t-
sively attributed to them. Macdonald believes that because tel
current. Bast=West division in the Security Council and In
view of spast fluctuations in US policy," the Jews d count to
possibility of punitive action by the UK,, particularly .gait`
the state of Israel.
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4. CHINA: makes new plea for JS aid- UJ> Assadur
Stuart, in summarizing several recent talks with Ching K -tit
shek, reports that Chiang reaffirmed his determination to fit ht
Communism to the last with or without US aid. C hia$ng also'
told Stuart that the USSR is more realistic in appraising
Chinese conditions" than Americans who predict that his Go '-
ernment "will fall in three or six months"; Chiang believes,
that the Kremlin therefore favors a peaceful settk'4ent on
terms which would advance Communist infiltration. The Gel s -
eralissimo admitted that his Government was corrupt and
inefficient and declared that it was for this very reason that
he had repeatedly requested US aid, especially in the form ti
civil and military advisors. Chiang maintained that such help
is essential to undertaking the reforms which alone would
justify material assistance. Chiang added that he could not'
believe that US leaders are fully aware of what he is trying tc
achieve or what 'the US interest in this struggle really is,
and he proposed that Stuart go to Washington toy present C hti a's
"real case."
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(CIA Comment: C hthng's latest approaches to Stuart
concerning US aid are Indicative of the precarious position
of his Government which probably would disintegrate without
US. support. CIA doubts that the present National Government
would ever give more than lip-service to US advice concern-
ing reforms.)
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