CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: January 13, 1953
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SUMMARY
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GENERAL
2. Portugal protests charge that Macao-China trade affects Korean
conflict (page 3).
SOVIET UNION
3. USSR reportedly extending state farms in western border areas
(page 4).
FAR EAST
4. Moslem revolt in North China reportedly continuing (page 4).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
5. Indonesian rubber reportedly sold to Communist China (page 5),
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
6. Egypt reportedly secures support of southern Sudan for self-
government (page 5).
EASTERN EUROPE
7. Tito opposes interim solution involving Italian occupation of Trieste
(page 6).
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WESTERN EUROPE
8. West German moderates oppose basic changes in EDC treaty (page 7).
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2. Portugal protests charge that Macao-China trade affects Korean conflict:
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ume" of Macao-China trade permitted by Portugal is influencing the course
of hostilities in Korea. Cunha stated that such a "grossly overdrawn" state-
ment would have a harmful effect on US-Portuguese relations. Portugal,
he added, is trying to hold this "trickle" of trade to a minimum,
Comment: Portugal insists that limited ship-
ments of strategic goods to Communist China are essential to Macao's
economic life; it has strongly intimated that it will refuse to consider
any further tightening of trade controls in the colony.
Foreign Minister Cunha has protested to the
American Ambassador in Lisbon against a
charge allegedly contained in the forthcoming
MSA annual report that the "considerable vol-
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SOVIET UNION
3. USSR reportedly extending state farms in western border areas:
near the Lithuanian and Byelorussian borders. It is believed that
this move may be connected with the transformation of collective
farms in these border regions into state farms.
Commment: This action was probably under-
taken primarily to strengthen government control in rural Byelorussia
and Lithuania. In state farms the government has full control over
personnel, production and distribution.
Soviet authorities last fall reportedly trans-
ferred politically reliable farmers of Great
Russian nationality from state farms in
the Kaliningrad Oblast to collective farms
FAR EAST
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4. Moslem revolt in North China reportedly continuing:
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Kansu Province has confirmed the continuation
of a Moslem rebellion in Northwest China. 0 25X1
aid that anti-Communist Moslems
have controlled a mountainous area in eastern
Kansu for about 18 months and that for political reasons Chinese Commu-
nist leaders have not yet launched an all-out attack to crush the revolt.
Comment., This revolt was admitted in the
Chinese Communist press lasll. This is the only confirmed instance
of resistance to the Chinese Communist regime on this scale.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
5. Indonesian rubber reportedly sold to Communist China:
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Indonesian rubber to Communist China has
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een He believes that the
movvemen o Indonesian rubber to China
will lead to the general breakdown in Southeast Asia of the UN-spon-
sored embargo and intimates that a concerted approach to Djakarta
might be effective in preventing the issuance of export licenses for
this shipment.
Comment. Peiping has reportedly offered
exeptionally favorable termsfor a rice-rubber deal to induce Indonesia
to withdraw its support of the embargo. The fact that China is able to
meet its current rubber requirements by imports from Ceylon suggests
that the motivation for any such offer is primarily political.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
6. Egypt reportedly secures support of southern Sudan for self-government:
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has told the American Liaison Officer in
Khartoum that, during his visit to southern
Sudan, the majority of the primitive chiefs
had agreed to support the Egyptian position
of no special authority for the Governor General prior to self-deter-
mination.
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added that a settlement of the Sudan
question is impossible because of British insistence on special powers
for the Governor General. If there is no settlement, violence will occur,
the Sudanese will boycott any elections, and Egypt, if requested, will
come to the assistance of the Sudanese.
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Comment: The British had previously hoped
that visit to southern Sudan would reveal the problems inherent
in the situation and induce Egypt to be more moderate. The success
achieved in gaining southern Sudan's support for the
Egyptian position makes it unlikely that Cairo will offer any further
concession to London on this issue.
EASTERN EUROPE
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7. Tito opposes interim solution involving Italian occupation of Trieste:
and omin orm" elements in Trieste, and would provide no guarantees for
the Slovene minority.
Marshal Tito opposes the withdrawal of Apglo-
American forces from Trieste and the assump-
tion of their responsibilities in Zone A by Italy.
He told Ambassador Allen that such a solution
might provoke serious disturbances by "Fascist
Tito added, however, that he would prefer out-
right annexation of Zone A by Italy to Italian assumption of occupational
responsibilities. He concluded that Trieste wo ild remain a trouble spot
until a bilateral solution was found.
Comment: Rumors and press reports of an
interim solution have been rife wring the past few weeks. Although both
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WESTERN EUROPE
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8. West German moderates oppose basic changes in EDC treaty:
proposals for an independent West German army.
Schroeder believes that the European Army
project can be salvaged if the United States and Britain will definitively
state that the failure to ratify EDC will result in the withdrawal of the
bulk of their troops, leaving only a thin defense line in Germany.
Bundestag leader Carl Schroeder, who reflects
the sentiments of many Christian Democrat
deputies, states that his party wants no basic
changes in the EDC treaty and will oppose any
Comment: Although most Bundestag deputies
probably do not want basic c angers in the EDC treaty, nearly all of them
would agree to some modification of the restrictive provisions in the
contractual arrangements, particularly those on decartelization and war
criminals.
President-elect Eisenhower's statement to
Chancellor Adenauer supporting the EDC treaty appears to have had
little effect thus far on West German political circles.
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