CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: December 2, 1956
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CONTENTS
3. ISRAELI DEMOBILIZATION BELIEVED LEVELING OFF
4. RENEWAL OF TENSION IN HUNGARY
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6. EXTREME RIGHT IN FRANCE SEEN STRENGTHENED
VIETNAM
UNREST IN NORTH
8. REVOLUTION IN CUBA REPORTED SET FOR 4 -DECEMBER
9. SATELLITES INSTITUTE ECONOMIC MEASURES TO
PLACATE DISCONTENTED POPULATIONS
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3. ISRAELI DEMOBILIZATION BELIEVED LEVELING OFF
The American embassy in Tel Aviv
believes that Israeli military strength--
reported on 27 November at about
100, 000, including 25,000 paramilitary
personnel who man the border settle-
ments--will be maintained at its present
level for the time being. The Israeli
defense force appears to be resting its
troops and using older soldiers and
best
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reservists for occupation duties in Sinai and Gaza.
United Nations truce supervisory teams
.which inspected a "defensive area" six miles in depth along
the Syrian-Jordanian lines on 22-23 November found no
evidence of Israeli military concentrations.
The American army attache in Tel
Aviv reported on 29 November that liberal leave was being
granted to Israeli soldiers. He also said that three French
freighters were loading personpel.carr.ier's and'other
to France
military trucks, at Haifa., app4rently for return
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4. . RENEWAL OF TENSION IN HUNGARY
A regime rebuff of worker demands and a
defiant call for a five- to ten-day renewal
of the general labor strike and armed up-
rising- -reportedly issued by the Budapest
workers' councils--are responsible for
the renewal of tension throughout Buda-
pest. Renewed fighting has been reported
in Budapest and the provinces. Although
this appears to be limited to guerrilla
activity in the provinces, both the popula-
tion and the regime appear to fear that
fighting will again become widespread.
Various worker groups which talked
directly with Kadar have been rebuffed in their demands for
a "national council" of workers and an independent press,
but subsequently appeared to gain a victory over the regime-
dominated national trade union council when they "forced"
the resignation of its Communist leader Sandor Gaspar.
Sensing an increase in the strength of their position, workers
took part in two public demonstrations on 2 December, burn-
ing issues of the Communist Party paper and then marching
several hundred strong in protest against the kidnapping of a
man in broad daylight in downtown Budapest by Soviet soldiers.
The regime has attempted to play down
the open defiance of the workers. Nevertheless, it is
apparently unable even to exercise influence over the Com-
munist Party. Large numbers of Communists, who must
apply for admission in the reconstituted party--the Hungarian
Socialist Workers Party--are not doing so, despite admonitions
by the current leadership.
Although six of the Soviet leaders at-
tended the Yugoslav reception in Moscow on 29 November,
presidium members Malenkov and Suslov were absent. The
Yugoslav ambassador told Ambassador Bohlen that his in-
formation was that Malenkov and Suslov were still in.Budapest.
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v. EXTREME RIGHT IN FRANCE SEEN STRENGTHENED
The sudden deterioration in France's
internal political situation as a result
of the Middle East crisis has strengthened
the possibility that rightist groups might
form a strong enough coalition to assume power either in
the National Assembly or through extralegal means, ac-
cording to the American embassy in Paris. Such a move=ment would be likely to rally around General DeGaulle,
ex-Gaullist leader Jacques Soustelle, or some younger
general.
The embassy believes support for such
a movement would come from followers of Poujade, French
residents in Algeria, and anti-republican deputies on the
right, but that army co-operation and support would also
be essential.
Comment Rumors of a rightist coup usually ac-
company French political crises o The
growing belief that France has been increasingly isolated
in the present situation has strengthened the appeal of those
who maintain that, France could carry out its national policies
from a neutralist position.
There is apparently considerable pres-
sure now for France to withdraw from the UN. Premier
Mollet has assured the embassy that he will not take such
a step, but he believes that if France is defeated in the
General Assembly debate on Algeria, he will be replaced
by a government which would cut UN ties.
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UNREST IN. NORTH
VIET'NAM
There is widespread dissatisfaction
among the North. Vietnamese masses
but the regular army appears to be
completely loyal to the Viet Minh9
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reportedly put the Viet Minh leaders "at their wits' end."
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Vietnam would win any free elections h la a in a near future,
and are urging it to fulfill the provision of. the. Geneva- ac=
cords providing for the unification elections.
e pparent quick suc--.
cess of the army in crux ing a rebellion near Vinh supports
the view that regular troops remain loyal to the Viet Minh
regime.
South Vietnam's
favorable chances in free unification elections reflect
.growing recognition of the viability of the Diem
government.
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8. REVOLUTION IN CUBA REPORTED SET FOR
4'DECEMBER
The revolutionary outbreak in Cuba
centering in Santis
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of Fidel Castro's movement is set for 4 - ecember. A
simultaneous effort reportedly will be made in all provinces
except Havana, perhaps in an effort to draw troops out of
the capital in preparation for action there several days
later. all local chiefs of the movement have
"firm" oraers.
Further rebel attacks and disturbances
seem likely, Castro reportedly has announced that he has
returned to Cuba for a "fight to the death." According to a
press report of 2 December, however, a government spokes-
man said that Castro was killed when the Cuban military
halted an invading force on the eastern coast.
President Batista, whose government
has alleged that former Cuban president Prio and Dominican
dictator Tru'illo are linked with Castro in plotting, has
strongly believing
-that a force is under training in the minican Republic :for
an attack on Cuba. Should the Cuban situation further
deteriorate, Batista may refer his case. to the Organization
of American States, claiming Dominican involvement.
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9. SATELLITES INSTITUTE ECONOMIC MEASURES TO
PLACATE DISCONTENTED POPULATIONS
A series of economic concessions to
consumers and wage earners has-been
instituted in the, past month by all
Satellite regimes which have maintained
a hard political line since the Soviet
20th Party Congress. The introduction of such measures
at this time suggests that recent events in Poland and Hungary
have not affected the basic post-Stalin policies of the Satel-
lite regimes to attempt to gain greater popular support.
Price reductions were announced by
the Czech regime on 29.November for the second time in
1956 on an extensive range of foods and some industrial
consumercgQods, and on 25 November- Albania made a
similar announcement--also for the second time this year.
. Since 30 October general wage increases
have been granted in Albania and Rumania. Family allowances
for children have been scheduled in Bulgaria and Rumania,
and pensions have been raised in East Germany and Albaria
and Bulgaria.
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