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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 23, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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1. FRANCE: Speed in initial MDAP shipment urged m SUS
Embassy Paris reports that French. Defense Minister
Pleven is greatly concerned over the arrival dates of
..MDAP shipments, because the French Army will be at
half strength from 15 to 25 April 1950, when one class
of conscripts will have been released and the new class
will not have reported. Pleven expressed the hope that
the initial MDAP shipment will arrive well before
15 April and that the next shipment will not arrive until
after 25 April. The Embassy urgently recommends.
(a) that every effort be made to speed the initial MDAP
shipment; and (b) that Pleven be informed as soon as
possible of the approximate arrival time of the shipment.
(CIA Comment: CIA believes that the French
Government's capabilities for coping with serious dis-
orders between 15 and 25 April will be seriously weakened,
because immediately after the present conscript class is
released on 15 April, the troop units in France will con-
sist, almost entirely of conscripts having, about four
months' training.)
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