CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2003
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• Publication Date: May 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
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FAR. EAST
1. Peiping impresses British trade delegates with germ warfare
claims (page 3 ). _ _ _
NEAR EAST -AFRICA.
5, Mossadeq wants to use US aid for army salaries (page 5).
6. Prime Minister intends to remove "spurious deputies" from
new Majlis (page 6),
74 Egypt considers new British proposals unacceptable (page 6).
WESTERN. EUROPE
8, British High Commissioner pessimistic on Berman cDntract
deadline (page ?).
LAT~T AMERICA
9. Brazilian Foreign Minister fears entire US-Brazilian. relatianship"a~t
an. impasse" (page 7),
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FAR EAST
1. Peiping impresses British trade delegates with germ warfare claims:
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British delegates to the Moscow Economic
Conference were shown a germ warfare
exhibit in Peiping during their visit in April.
Some of them apparentl
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umen s of germ war-
fare, posters showing American press statements on germ research,
and recordings. of American prisoner-of-war statementso ~ne.of the
British visitors reportedly believes that Peiping's charges are well
founded, on the ground that it is impossible for China to fabricate such
evidence, A -more cautious member of the group thinks that the Chinese
made a prima facie case which requires "serious investigation"
y are convinc
d that
here is a substantial basis for China's charges against the United States,
The exhibit included instr
Commento Although-the volume of Peiping?s
propaganda on germ warfar h sae diminished somewhat, the Commu-
nists continue to press their campaign to win foreign support for their
chargeso
Banda campaign is evidenced by a 12 Apriitstatementuin the Bri tshpa
leftist weekly New. Statesmen and Nation modifying a former stand
that the Communist claims did not even merit further exarninationo
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5~ Mossadeq wants. to use US aid for army salariesa
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Prime Minister Mossadeq has asked Am-
bessador Henderson if the United `States could
authorize use of military aid. funds to pay
Iranian army. salaries4 Remarking that he
found it strange that a democratic country like the United States was
prepared to give duns to the army but not economic aid. to the Iranian
people, the Prime Minister asserted that military expend~ttures were
an unbearable strain on the budgeto
Commento Iranian. officials have been pro-
moting the belief that the rec~enly signed Iran-United States agreement
on military aid foreshadowed American. economic and financial aid,and
it was anticipated that the Prime Minister, who has Ian the past:.firmly
opposed foreign military assistance, woulc} attempt to use the agree-
ment for his own purposea
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60 -Prime Minister intends to remove "spurious deputies" from new Majlise
Prime Minister Mossadeq told the American
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to exclude from the new Majlis those deputies
who had been elected. fraudulently. He pro-
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posed to ask that the Majlis expel possibly seven or eight of the 12 or
14 deputies he considered illegally electedo If they were excluded,.
Mossadeq thought the elections for some 40 or 50 seats, still to be
held, would be fairo Otherwise, the vacant seats would be filled by
"British stooges;'
Commenta Mossadeq has previously expressed
the hope that the "true representatives of the people" would reject these
deputieso Although he has commented on ''illegitimate interference" in
elections, it appears that Mullah Kashani, ane of Mossadeq's firmest
supporters, was the chief offender in manipulating elections to assure
victory for his follower so
7a Egypt considers new British. proposals unacceptable:
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proposals on the Anglo-Egyptian dispute which.
the British Ambassador brought.back from
on on are unaccep a e, The King's adviser stated that Egyptian
authorities were extremely disappointed with the.proposals but would
not reject them immediately.
The palace offi~,ial promised that the Egyptian
Government would show Caffery a copy of its reply to London before
presenting it to the Britisho
Commente .The Ambassador previously re-
ported that no one in Cairo considered the new British proposals ac-
ceptable and that Egyptians were increasingly convinced that the joint:
discussions would prove futile,
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WESTERN EUROPE
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$. British High Commissioner pessimistic on German contract deadline e
cessions Adenauer
British High Commissioner Kirkpatrick doubts
that the Allied-German contractual agreement..
can be signed on 20 May because of the .re-
visions necessary to solve Chancellor Adenauer's
difficulties with his coalitions He mentions
1 June a.s a more likely-date and will propose
that the High Commissioners conduct a "probing
operation" to ascertain what minimum con-
must have,
~iigh Commissioner N.~cCloy warns that pro-
visions fn the agreement previously considered settled may be reopened
for similar reasons. He states that he cannot estimate how long it will
take to settle all outstanding matters, including the revisions.
Comrnento Negotiators in Parr and in Bonn
are trying to finish drafts o the uropean Defense Community treaty
and the contractual agreement so that -the Foreign Ministers can sign
them on 20 May. The EDC treaty drafts .are expected to be initialled
this week. Adenauer still insists that he will be able to sign the con-
tractual agreement on 20 Maye
LATIN AMERICA
9. Brazilian Foreign Minister fears entire US-Brazilian relationship"'at
an impasse"':
culated according to a new, more .restrictive formulas A revision of
the decree is opposed by a powerful nationalist -group which apparently
wants foreign investors in Brazil only on its own terms and under its
contralq
The American Ambassador in Brazil believes
that there will be an early showdown onP'resi-
dent Vargas'- January decree that foreign ex-
change remittances of former years be recal-
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Foreign Minister Neves da Fontoura;has ex-
pressed his grave apprehension that the entire US-Brazilian ~relation-
ship is "at an impasse" because of this issue. He feels that more
important things are at stake than the safeguarding of American invest-
ment interests in Brazil, and that "'the United States should be extremely
patient."
He also -told the Ambassador that he is much
disturbed at reports from all over South America. of growing anti- US
sentiment.
Comment: Neves da Fontoura is one of the
most able and friendly of atin merican diplomats. He and Minister
of Finance Lafer have opposed the decree since its promulgation, but
have felt that it could be revised if some face-saving solution were found.
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