CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2003
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• Publication Date: March 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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 SUMMARY
GENERAL
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7. US Embassy Moscow comments on possible Soviet expansionist
moves in Iran (page 7).
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10. Austria acting to reduce Communist police strength (page 9).
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7. US Embassy Moscow comments on possible Soviet expansionist moves
In Iran:
In reporting heav Soviet propaganda em-
phasis on US "in olvement" in Premier Raz-
mara's assassination and on alleged US efforts`
to supplant' UK domination in Iran, the"-US
Embassy in Moscow points out that the USSR, by thus blaming all dis-
* bances that may occur in Iran on the'US, could be paving the way for
an even more vigorous policy toward Iran. The Embassy suggests that
such a policy migJTt involve invoking the 1921 Iranian-USSR treaty and
intervening militarily in Iran in order to "defend" that country from
foreign domination. As to the possibility that the USSR will achieve its
goal of playing a paramount role in Iran without invoking military mea.-
sures -- and thus without risking a major war --- the Embassy notes how
welcome to the USSR is the movement to nationalize the Iranian oil indus-
try. In the Embassy's opinion, the USSR will increase its pressure on Iran
at the present critical juncture.
Comment: The USSR is reportedly conducting
spring maneuvers on the Iranian border, and several references to the
1921 treaty have been noted in Communist propaganda, While 'these un-
doubtedly will be utilized by the USSR as part of its war of nerves against
Iran, there is no evidence that the USSR is~contemplating military action
at this time.
Present Soviet press attention to develop-
ments on the oil question, and earlier reports of possible Soviet prepara-
tions (at the USSR-Iranian trade and financial talks) for reppening the
issue of oil concessions, suggest that the USSR may now renew its efforts
to gain a measure of control Over Iranian Oil fields.
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 WESTERN EUROPE
10. Austria acting to reduce Communist police strength:
Austrian Interior Minister Helmer has
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sent a reliable police officer to Graz (secon o
in ltration) to eliminate those responsible for Communist success there.
Donnelly comments that the USSR. will strongly resist any measures
calculated to reduce Communist representation on the police force and
that these develhpments may bring a ':'tightening of the general situation"
in Austria.
the police forces, beginning with the discharge of 400 members of the
Vienna administrative police. Helmer said that other purge operations
would be conducted more slowly because of Soviet opposition and the
absence of legislation enabling the government to dismiss police officers
on the grounds of pro-Communist sentiments. Helmer added that he has
d t Vienna in Communist
assured US High Commissioner Donnelly
that the Austrian Government will take im-
medate steps to remove Communists from
Comment: The surprisingly strong pro-
Communist vote in the recent Vienna police union elections prompted a
US-UK survey of Austrian police, which revealed that Communist strength
in the police organization is much greater than responsible Austrian
officials ha reviously indicated. Since then, the US High Commissioner
the Austrian Minister of Interior for remedial action.
has pressed
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