CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: July 12, 1957
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12 July 1957
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CURRENT
INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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CONTENTS
BRITAIN RECONSIDERING EXTENSION OF DISARMAMENT
AGREEMENT TO COMMUNIST CHINA
O~2. FRENCH LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MOVES TOWARD
RECOGNITION OF COMMUNIST CHINA
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4. SOVIET UN OFFICIAL CLAIMS PURGE MAKES POSSIBLE
BETTER US-SOVIET RELATIONS
~O 5. ITALIAN COMMUNIST REACTION TO SOVIET PURGE
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ANNEX- -Conclusions of the Watch Re ort of the Intelligence
Advisor Committee
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1. BRITAIN RECONSIDERING EXTENSION OF DISARMAMENT
AGREEMENT TO COMMUNIST CHINA
Britain is reconsidering its position on
the question of Communist China's ad-
herence to any first-step partial disarm-
ament agreement. According to a Foreign
Office official, the vigorous dissent expressed by Australia and
New Zealand at the Commonwealth prime ministers' conference
to Britain's "reluctant" agreement with the United States that
Communist China need not be included in the first phase has af-
fected London's views on this subject.
Australian Prime Minister Menzies took
the position that Peiping's present expansionist policy makes it
imperative that Communist China should in some way be bound
by a first-phase disarmament agreement. New Zealand and
India voiced the same opinion.
At the close of their conference, the Com-
monwealth leaders issued a generalized statement calling for
Communist China's eventual participation in disarmament nego-
tiations.
London has agreed to support the moratorium
formula on Chinese representation at the UN General Assembly
this fall, but any such international recognition of Peiping as its
adherence to a first-step disarmament agreement would further
jeopardize Taipei's position in the UN, particularly its claim to a
permanent seat on the Security Council.
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2, FRENCH LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MOVES TOWARD
RECOGNITION OF COMMUNIST CHINA
The foreign affairs committee of the
French Natio4al Assembly met on 10
July to consider a resolution urging the
government to proceed toward recogni-
tion of Communist China, and plans to
vote on the question on 17 July. If the vote is favorable,
committee chairman Daniel Mayer may decide to bring up
the resolution in the assembly before the summer recess.
Comment The committee secretary, believes the
resolution will receive a favorable vote
in committee. There is a likelihood, . however,, that
the assembly will postpone debate until fall in view of its
heavy schedule and the deputies' desire for early recess.
Important business interests, particularly
those seeking expanded trade with the Far East, favor recog-
nition. Former premier Edgar Faure, who has just returned
from Peiping is one of several influential deputies who urge
such a step.
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4. SOVIET UN OFFICIAL CLAIMS PURGE MAKES
POSSIBLE BETTER US-SOVIET RELATIONS
A member of the Soviet UN delegation,
Igor Vasilyevich Chechyetkin, told
Ambassador Wadsworth on 10 July that
the top-level changes in the Soviet lead-
ership would mean an improvement of
relations with the nited States if the United States really
wanted an improvement. He warned, however, that the changes
would not mean any modification of basic Soviet principles and
objectives, and that the United States would be greatly mistaken
if it expected a wholesale retreat from previous Soviet positions.
He said the United States could expect a
more flexible Soviet approach to existing problems which would
make it possible to settle "little by little" some of the outstand-
ing issues. He stressed that agreement would be item by item
and that the United States should not expect to settle all differ-
ences at one time.
Chechyetkin's remarks are similar to those
made to American officials by members of the Soviet disarma-
ment delegation in London on 4 July. Soviet broadcasts since
the purge also have warned the West against expecting far-reach-
ing changes in Soviet foreign policy.
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5. ITALIAN COMMUNIST REACTION TO SOVIET PURGE
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The Italian Communist Party is on the
defensive to some extent over the purge
in Soviet leadership, and Togliatti ad-
mitted in a 7 Jul Unita editorial that it
'had shocked certain comrades."
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The official party reaction, however, had
been calm approval. Togliatti's initial Unita editorial on 5 July
stated that the condemnations were absolutely necessary and
fully justified and that they were a safeguard against a repeti-
tion of the errors of the Stalin era.
A Communist delegation, headed by Vice
Secretary General Luigi Longo, reportedly will leave soon for
the Soviet Union to spend a few weeks studying "how the deci-
sions of the 20th congress have been carried out."
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President Sukarno will install his pre-
dominantly leftist national council on
12 July even though seven of the 45 seats
are still vacant. It will hold its first
meeting on 13 July.
Sukarno on 9 July called for the establish-
ment of a "new-life movement" to promote
both "self-correction" and a "mental revo-
uion oug ou Indonesia. The American embassy suggests
that Sukarno's latest proposal appears to be designed as a new
rallying cry to arouse popular emotion and support in his scheme
to "uplift" the nation.
Despite Sukarno's maneuvers, no progress
is being made toward the solution of Indonesia's most pressing
problems. Prime Minister Djuanda stated on 9 July that it was
impossible for the government to meet the economic demands
of the disaffected provinces., He announced, however, that the
$100,000,000 Soviet technical aid agreement--initialed last Sep-
tember--has been approved by the cabinet and submitted to
parliament for discussion. Djuanda said the loan would be used
primarily for capital goods and equipment and for the services
of experts who would train Indonesians in technical and managerial
matters. The agreement will probably be ratified in view of the
increasingly acute need for funds to carry out the government's
long-promised development program.
The deputy chief of staff went to Celebes on
10 July in a new attempt to end the disaffection of Lt, Col. Sumual
in East Indonesia.
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ANNEX
Watch Report 362, 11 July 1957
of the
Intelligence Advisory Committee
Conclusions on Indications of Hostilities
On the basis of findings by its Watch Committee, the Intel-
ligence Advisory Committee concludes that-
A. No Sino-Soviet bloc country intends to initiate hostilities
against the continental US or its possessions in the imme-
diate future.
B. No Sino-Soviet bloc country intends to initiate hostilities
against US forces abroad, US allies or areas peripheral
to the orbit in the immediate future.
.Co Early deliberate initiation of hostilities by Israel or the
Arab states is not probable. Although tensions continue
between the Arab states and Israel and among certain Arab
states themselves, these are not likely to lead to serious
conflict in the immediate future.
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