CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A001300400001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
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WESTERN EUROPE
4. New East German travel checks may curtail refugee flow (page 4).
5. France reluctant to become involved in question of Trieste troop
withdrawals (page 5).
LATIN AMERICA
6. Threat seen to prestige of US air missions in Latin America
(page 5).
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WESTERN EUROPE
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4. New East German travel checks may curtail refugee flow:
The recent institution by the East German
police of checks on travelers entering
Berlin on the S-Bahn, or elevated, may
close an important avenue of escape
for refugees and might seriously handicap any future relief programs
for Soviet zone residents, according to American officials in Bonn.
They also fear that the ten-minute police checks of S-Bahn passen-
gers traveling from the Soviet zone may be extended also to travel
between the east and west sectors of Berlin.
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Comment.- The East German police have
been examining luggage and documents of S-Bahn passengers at
the Soviet zone border since 18 October. The S-Bahn has been one
of the principal routes used by refugees who continue to arrive
in West Berlin at a rate of about 500, daily.
5. France reluctant to become involved in question of Trieste troop,with-
rawals:
added,-: however, that he would express personally to the Yugoslav
foreign secretary and to Italian premier Pella his concern over
troop movements.
told the American and British ambassadors in London on 26
October that such a request would certainly be rejected by Yugo-
slavia and could lead to a break in diplomatic relations. Bidault
French foreign minister Bidault believes
that a French request to Yugoslavia and
Italy to withdraw their troops from the
Trieste area would be inadvisable. He
Bidault also said that since the basic
question was political, details of military problems should be
put aside pending further three-power discussion. He felt that
an acceptable solution could be found only by a realistic "whittling
down" of the conflicting demands of Rome and Belgrade.
LATIN AMERICA
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Threat seen to prestige of US air missions in Latin America:
in Caracas believes such a development could set a precedent
seriously damaging to the effectiveness and prestige of United
States military missions in Venezuela and other Latin American
countries.
Royal air force officers rather than
British civilians are now scheduled to
train Venezuelans in the use of British
jet. bombers. The American embassy
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Comment-. Employment of British
officers for this purpose, If not approved by the United States, would
constitute a formal breach of the air mission agreement with Vene-
zuela and would pose a new threat to the whole program of arms
standardization in the hemisphere. The Venezuelan air force chief
would probably not risk such a breach and might in any case prefer
qualified American personnel.
British jet aircraft now compose over 20
percent of the Venezuelan air force; Brazil and Argentina have also
procured considerable numbers of British jets.-
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