CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
SOVIET UNION
1. Comment on Soviet agricultural decree (page,3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
3. Pressure for stiffer policy against Chinese Nationalists growing
in Burma (page 5).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
4. Comment on assassination of Tunisian nationalist, Hedi Chaker
(page 6).
WESTERN EUROPE
French ready for early Saar negotiations with West Germans
(page 6).
6. Comment on composition of West German Bundesrat (page 7).
LATIN AMERICA
7. Chilean president states copper will not be sold to USSR (page 7).
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SOVIET UNION
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. Comment on Soviet agricultural decree:
The decree published by the Communist
Party Central Committee on 12 September places an increased em-
phasis on agriculture and will have far-reaching economic and politi-
cal effects. It specifies a larger allocation of heavy industry output
to agriculture than is provided for in the current Five-Year Plan.
The new program calls for an increase
of approximately 30 percent in the delivery of tractors, and for
sharp increases in livestock, vegetable and fodder production by
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Along with increased emphasis on party
control of farming, there is to be a large-scale expansion of schools
and training facilities to produce agricultural experts. In the interim,
some production experts and engineers are to be transferred from
industry to agriculture.
Highlighting the political significance of
this document are the concessions made to private production and
the incentive-producing measures embodied in new delivery rates
for the collective farms. The new policy is designed to stimulate
the productivity of labor in agriculture and provide more popular
support for the new Soviet government.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
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The American embassy in Bangkok reports
that a new evacuation plan is nearing completion and that guarded
optimism is now justified, although the local Nationalist charge ex-
pressed an opinion that any evacuation would be no more than a
token gesture.
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3. Pressure for stiffer policy against Chinese Nationalists growing in
Burma?
Burma's delegate to the UN General
Assembly on 12 September told the
American ambassador in Rangoon that
there is considerable sentiment in high
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government circles for a drastic expression of dissatisfaction with
the effort to evacuate Chinese Nationalist troops. He stated that
this attitude could cause an abrupt change in Burma's policy of
moderation.
Comment-. . Exasperation in Rangoon
over the Nationalist problem is increasing, and there are indications
that Burma's first step toward a more forceful policy may be with-
drawal from the Bangkok negotiations. Burma has submitted a rela-
tively temperate report to the UN General Assembly accusing the
Chinese of insincerity in the negotiations.
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The widespread protest demonstrations
immediately following the killing of Hedi Chaker, a leading Tunisian
nationalist, on 13 September 'may be a prelude to new native attacks
on both Europeans and pro-French Tunisians.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
4. Comment on assassination of Tunisian nationalist, Hedi Chaker:
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Chaker was considered to be a dangerous
nationalist by the French authorities, who held him as a hostage in
forced residence. His murder probably was the work of the French
underground group, known as the "Red Hand," which is generally be-
lieved to have killed the prominent Tunisian labor leader Farhat
Hached last December.
The nationalist Neo-Destour party policy
committee, of which Chaker was a member, has publicly issued
orders for "calm," but may be unable to restrain fanatics.
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French ready for early Saar negotiations with West Germans:
Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Schumann informed Ambassador Dillon on
12 September that the French government
will invite Chancellor Adenauer to resume
talks on the Saar. The invitation is to be part of Paris' reply to
Adenauer's protest in June against the revised French-Saar conven-
tions.
Schumann expressed the hope that Adenauer
will promptly begin negotiations with Foreign Minister Bidault. Am-
bassador Dillon, however, believes that Adenauer may want to post-
pone discussions until mid-October.
Comment: A committee of the Council of
Europe, ignoring a German request for delay in view of Adenauer's
announced intention to initiate early talks with France, began debate
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on 12 September of a proposal to Europeanize the Saar. The
French government is expected to consider this proposal an
acceptable beginning for negotiations, although it objects to
some of the political recommendations. The West German
government has not taken a position on the proposal.
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Comment on composition of West German Bundesrat:
A majority in the West German
Bundesrat was virtually assured for Chancellor Adenauer's
policies on 13 September when Reinhold Maier announced that
he would resign as head of the Baden-Wuerttemberg state
government and Bundesrat delegation, which holds the balance
of power in the upper house. Maier is being forced to resign
by his own Free Democratic Party because of his policy of
cooperating with the opposition Social Democrats.
To assure himself the two-thirds
majority necessary for constitutional amendments, however,
the chancellor will have to reach an agreement with the refugee
party in Lower Saxony whereby the latter would dissolve its
present coalition with the Social Democrats and form a pro-
Adenauer government there. Although Adenauer is still un-
decided, most Christian Democratic leaders desire to ensure
the refugee party's cooperation by including it in the Bonn
coalition government.
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7. Chilean president states copper will not be sold to USSRa
According to Chilean foreign minister
Fenner, President Ibanez stated cate-
gorically at a cabinet meeting on 11
September that Chile would "go all along
the line" with the United States and that the prospective deal to sell
copper to the USSR had been canceled.
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Ibanez reportedly said that Chilean
public opinion had been satisfied by the abrogation of the 1951
decrees forbidding trade with the Orbit and by the resolution
indicating that Chile could sell its products wherever it pleased.
Comment: Reportedly the Russian
offer to purchase Chile's copper contingent on the renewal
of diplomatic relations, broken since 1947, which Ibanez ap-
parently does not desire at this time.
Further, the immediate financial gain
to Chile from copper sales to the USSR would be more than offset
by losses of aid from the United States.
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