CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: December 24, 1955
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OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
24 December 1955
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CONTENTS
1. SOVIET OFFICIALS INDICATE MOLOTOV OUSTER
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2. HUNGARY'S ENTRY INTO UN SPARKS LOCAL ANTI- US
REACTION (page 4). 25X1A
3. THAI PREMIER MAY USE RESIGNATION AS DEVICE
TO RESHUFFLE CABINET - (page 5). 25X1A
4. AFGHANISTAN MAKES OVERTURES TO US AND
PAKISTAN (page 6).
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5. BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT REPORTED EXPECTING COUP
(page 7).
THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(page 8)
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1. SOVIET OFFICIALS INDICATE MOLOTOV OUSTER
IMMINENT
Two recent reports suggest that
V. M. Molotov may soon be re-
moved from his post as Soviet for-
eign minister, possibly at the Su-
preme Soviet session scheduled for
26 December.
Soviet first deputy minister
of foreign trade P. N. Kumykin, in reply to a question
in early November,
stated that Molotov would be relieved of his post as for-
eign minister at the next Supreme Soviet session. Accord-
ing to Kumykin, Molotov was too rigid to administer the
"new" flexible Soviet foreign policy line properly, and would
be replaced by Soviet planning chief M. Z. Saburov.
Recently I. G. Chechetkin, first secre-
tary of the Soviet UN delegation, told a US UN representative
he believed there would be a number of changes in the Soviet
Foreign Ministry in the near future. He added that A. F.
Dobrynin, former counselor-minister of the Soviet embassy
in the United States, had taken a "very big chance" in be-
coming Molotov's personal assistant.
Comment Molotov's position has become increas-
ingly insecure during 1955. V. V. Kuz-
netsov and A. A. Gromyko, both first deputy foreign minis-
ters, are generally regarded as more likely candidates than
Saburov.
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2. HUNGARY'S ENTRY INTO UN SPARKS LOCAL ANTI-US
REACTION
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Since Hungary's admission to the UN,
the American legation in Budapest has
received an unusual number of anony-
mous telephone calls in which the cal-
lers denounce the United States as a traitor to the Hungarian
people and question America's adherence to the moral prin-
ciples it professes.
has told the legation
that popular reaction in rural areas in northern Hungary is
unexpectedly strong and vocal, and that his impression was
that the people, already depressed, equate Hungary's admis-
sion into the UN with driving the last nail into their coffin.
The legation reports that the regime is
exploiting the situation by editorials proclaiming the victory
of the socialist states over an isolated United States.
Comment A sense of hopelessness has become in-
creasingly apparent among the populations
of several of the Satellites since the Geneva conference in July.
Though no reaction reports have been received from Rumania,
Bulgaria or Albania, which were admitted to the United Nations
at the same time, the UN vote will probably increase the belief
of many in the Satellites that the only way they can improve
their standard of livin is to support Communist programs.
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3. THAI PREMIER MAY USE RESIGNATION AS DEVICE.
TO RESHUFFLE CABINET
Comment on:
Although Premier Phibun evaded the
issue in a 23 December press confer-
ence, it is probable that he is consid-
ering either resignation or dissolution
of his cabinet as a strategem to reduce the influence of
Police Director General: -Phao.
the premier had, in fact, informed the cabinet of his
intention to resi n in the next few weeks. 25X611
25X6 any resignation would be simply a
formality and that Phibuun would immediately form a new
government excluding certain ministers who have been
"creating difficulties.' Government newspapers, in an evi-
dent attempt to discredit General Phao's faction as well as
the police, are stressing Phibun's irritation over disregard
of his orders to investigate police corruption and put into
effect certain democratic reforms.
Although it is uncertain how far Phibun
intends to press his campaign against Phao, these develop-
ments foreshadow a period of greater political tension in
Bangkok.
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4. AFGHANISTAN MAKES OVERTURES TO US AND
PAKISTAN
The American embassies in Kabul
and Karachi report that the Afghan
government is making friendly over-
tures to the United States and Paki-
stan.
Finance Minister Malik, a strong
supporter of Prime Minister Daud,
has accepted an invitation, to visit the United States
Foreign Minister Naim has suggested
to the Pakistani charge in Kabul that the Pakistani governor
general visit Kabul as guest of the king.
The Afghan government has asked the
Morrison-Knudsen Company to construct a new headquar-
ters.building in Kabul for.the Helmand Valley Authority.
The company has also been granted 200,000 for work on
Kandahar airport.
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5. BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT REPORTED EXPECTING
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The Bolivian government is reported
to be ex-
pecting a coup "on or about 23 Decem-
ber.,, On 22 December the government
notified all militant members of the governing Nationalist
Revolutionary Movement; Party of a state of emergency,
and ordered all police and carabineros to remain at their
posts on a stand-by basis.
Comment Should a coup be attempted, it probably
would be by the Coalition of Anti-Commu-
nist Parties, notably the extreme rightist Bolivian Socialist
Falange, which. attempted a coup in November 1953. The
government should have no difficulty in containing any coup
attempt by these forces.
The rumors of a coup may have been
government instigated to serve as a pretext for not granting
a promised Christmas amnesty to political prisoners, many
of them members of the Falange.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 23 December)
No significant military activity has
been reported.
Israeli prime minister Ben-Gurion
has told an official of the International Labor Organization
he is convinced war will start by June 1956 and perhaps
sooner. The prime minister reportedly said it would be
precipitated by either Egypt or Syria. This statement is
in line with the general opinion among Israeli leaders that
their country will be attacked by the Arabs when and if the
latter feel strong enough to be sure of victory. The timing
of the statement, however, suggests that it may be aimed
at convincing the West that Israel is desperate now and that
its requests for aid should therefore be granted.
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