CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: June 13, 1956
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13 June 1956
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CONTENTS
1. ICELAND ASKS REVISION OF US DEFENSE AGREEMENT
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2. PHILIPPINE NATIONALISTS WILL SEEK DRASTIC REVISION
OF AMERICAN BASE AGREEMENT - (page 4).
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3. PEIPING'S STATEMENT ON TALKS WITH US. AT GENEVA
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4. SHAH EXPRESSES HOPE OF INCREASED US AID BEFORE
MOSCOW TRIP - (page 6).
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5. SOVIET-AFGHAN ARMS DEAL REPORTED TO BE IMMINENT
25X1 A (page 7).
6. WEST GERMANS PLAN TO RESTRICT SOVIET DIPLOMATIC
ACTIVITIES (page 8).
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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14 ICELAND ASKS REVISION OF US DEFENSE AGREEMENT
Comment on:
Icelandic foreign minister Gudmundsson
on 1.1 June handed Ambassador Muccio a
note asking for a revision of the 1951 de-
fense agreement with the United States.
presence of American defense forces in Iceland is a
major issue in the 24 June elections. The note cites the
Althing resolution of 28 March which called for the withdrawal
of American troops, and suggests that discussions between the
two governments begin on 1 August in order to "introduce a
new system" to replace that adopted under the 1951 agreement.
The North Atlantic Council will be advised accordingly.
The delivery of the note at this time is an
electoral maneuver forced upon Gudmundsson by his Progres-
sive Party, which has become increasingly sensitive to charges
from nationalistic and leftist elements that it had done nothing
to implement the March parliamentary resolution. The more
moderate elements have charged the Progressive Party with
irresponsibility and playing politics with the country's defense.
Under the 1951 agreement either govern-
ment may, after notifying the other, request the North Atlantic
Council to review the continued necessity for the facilities and
their utilization, and to make recommendations to the two gov-
ernments. In accordance with this article, the Icelanders can
require evacuation of American troops 18 months after the be-
ginning of negotiations. There is some belief in Iceland that
if American troops are withdrawn, Iceland will continue to re-
ceive substantial dollar payments for maintaining the installa-
tions.
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2. PHILIPPINE NATIONALISTS WILL SEEK DRASTIC
REVISION OF AMERICAN BASE AGREEMENT
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Philippine senators Recto and Laurel
are attempting to "mastermind" Philip-
pine strategy in the forthcoming nego-
tiations with the United States regarding
The Recto-Laurel faction, working through vice
25X1 A 25X1 C President Garcia, is anxious to have the Philippine nego-
tiators demand a drastic revision of the present bases agree-
ment along the lines of the US-Spanish agreement.
25X1 C this faction
hopes such tactics will force President Magsaysay to side
with the United States and that it, rather than Magsaysay,
will gain credit for any concessions.
Comment A group of nine Philippine senators, led
by Recto, has already gone on record in
favor of revising the base agreement to reduce the leases
from 99 to 20 years, give the Philippines exclusive jurisdic-
tion over base areas, prevent removal of any. American im-
provements or equipment, and eliminate inactive bases.
In view of the strong popular resentment
in the Philippines of foreign ownership of the bases, it is prob-
able that the Philippine negotiators will feel that they cannot
afford to ignore the views of Recto and his supporters.
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3. PEIPING'S STATEMENT ON TALKS WITH US AT GENEVA
Comment on:
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Reflecting Chinese Communist impatience
at the deadlock in the Geneva talks, Peiping's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made public
that it proposed on 11 May that the conferees
at Geneva arrange within two months to cone
vene a meeting of foreign ministers. The Chinese Communist
announcement contained no implied threat to break off the talks
if the deadlock continues. On the contrary, it suggested the
two-month period as a means to "prevent the indefinite drag-
ging out" of the talks.
The statement dismissed American proposals
thus far as attempts to "freeze the status quo. of the Taiwan
area." It stressed the necessity of having ameeting between the
secretary of state and Premier Chou En-lai.
It is unlikely the Communists actually be-
lieve such a meeting would resolve the disputed points at issue.
Hoping to enhance its own prestige at the expense of the Chinese
Nationalists, Peiping is seeking to demonstrate its own great-
power status and to advance its campaign for diplomatic recog-
nition. Earlier this month, Chou observed that "it is ridiculous
that two countries should be holding conversations without mutual
recognition."
The Foreign Ministry statement made no men-
tion of Chinese Communist intentions with respect to Americans
imprisoned in .China,
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4. SHAH EXPRESSES HOPE OF INCREASED US AID
BEFORE MOSCOW TRIP
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The Shah has sent word to the American 25X1 C
embassy in Tehran that he hopes for an
increase in American aid.
the monarch repeated severa
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but he "confidently expects American aid to help Iran for the
next three years'
Prime Minister Ala has suggested to the
embassy that some gesture of American good will and support,
not necessarily financial, is highly desirable before the Shah
leaves for Moscow on 25 June.
Comment The Shah is deeply committed to the West
and is not inclined toward closer economic
or political ties with the Soviet Union. He feels that the Soviet
Union will make generous offers which he will be unable to re-
ject without weakening his position with the Iranian public, es-
pecially if the USSR gives them wide publicity in Iran.
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5. SOVIET-AFGHAN ARMS DEAL REPORTED
TO BE IMMINENT
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A Soviet-Afghan arms agreement is now
being negotiated in Moscow,
The Afghan arms purchasing mission which
left Kabul in March for Prague and Moscow reported that Czech
.prices were too high and the arms being offered were obsoles-
cent. Most of the mission returned from Moscow last week, but
its chief, Major- General Abdul Razzak, who had expressed his
interest in MIG-15's in Prague, remained in Moscow with the
commandant of the Afghan air force.
Although several clandestine shipments of
Soviet small arms have apparently reached Afghanistan during
the last eight months, the USSR has thus far avoided open and
direct arms deals outside the Orbit. (Concurred in
by ORR)
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6. WEST GERMANS PLAN TO RESTRICT SOVIET
DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES
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An official of the West German gov-
ernment says the Foreign Ministry has
prepared a plan for limiting the free
movements of Soviet embassy personnel
to a radius of 25 miles from Bonn. For
10M 6r tfiD8. the Russians would have to get permission from
the German Foreign Ministry. The official believed that un-
der this restriction,. Soviet personnel would be prevented
from visiting refugee camps.
Comment The Bonn government intends to subject
the Soviet embassy in Bonn to the same
restrictions as those to which the German embassy in Moscow
is subjected. Limited to a radius of 25 miles, Soviet embassy
personnel could no longer conduct an unfettered program of
contacting West Germans.
Soviet personnel have approached Ruhr in-
dustrialists to press the Bonn government for a trade agree-
ment with Moscow. German officials have also complained of
the visits to refugee camps--sometimes clandestine=-by Soviet
embassy personnel urging Russians to request repatriation.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 12 June)
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The American army attache in Tel Aviv
reports that there were signs of a "substantial" demobilization
of personnel and motor vehicles in Israel during the past week.
chased from Britain, previously expected to arrive in Israeli
waters on 11 June, are now expected to arrive at Gibraltar on
gypt has a ounced the arrival at Alex-
andria of the two Soviet Skoryy-class destroyers reported last
week as en route from Poland. The two Israeli destroyers pur-
14 June for refueling en route o Israel.
e y an min s erL6f defense told the
press that a Syrian military mission will shortly go to Amman
to take up its duties in the permanent : joint. Syrian-Jordanian
operations council.
A Syrian Foreign Ministry official told
Ambassador Moose that he expects Soviet foreign minister Shep-
ilov to make a dramatic pro-Arab gesture during his trip to the
Middle East. He mentioned that the USSR might shortly propose
that negotiations for a settlement of the Palestine problem be based
on the 1947 United Nations resolutions which provided for separate
Jewish and Arab states with borders as established before the out-
A of war as well as the internationalization of Jerusalem.
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