CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: April 12, 1958
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
12 April 1958
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I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
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USSR - Guided :missile submarine: A submarine
possibly quippe to r. unc u'~idedixiissiles has been
sighted in the Kola Gulf area,
USSR - Satellites: Certain Eastern European satellites
have apparently been called on to increase pressure on the
peasants to join collective farms. The latest issue of the
Soviet party journal Kommunist points out that while col-
lectivization should be a gradual process, liquidation of
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.peasant opposition is necessary and inevitable. If Moscow
presses the satellites to take this course, it would be a
reversal of previous Soviet policy that each satellite should
decide its own speed of socialization and would seem to
indicate Moscow's dissatisfaction with the rate of satellite
collectivization.
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Widespread political u res , and possibl
violence, may develop in Ceylon as a result of Prime
Minister Bandaranaike's abrogation on 9 April of an agree-
ment with leaders of the Tamils, the island's minority
population of Indian origin. This agreement had provided
.for "reasonable" use of Tamil as a national language.
The prime minister's move was apparently forced by
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lation, who were protesting Tamil agitation. Singhalese is
officially Ceylon's national language.
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Morocco - Spain: Difficulties have apparently developed
in carrying out the agreement to transfer to Morocco on 10
April control of the Southern Morocco area which Spain has
governed as a protectorate since 1912, Moroccan Foreign
Minister Balafrej publicly warned Spain on 11 April that
Morocco would retaliate if Spanish authorities "did not re-
move obstacles hindering Moroccan forces" from assuming
control of the Tarfaia area. Apparently Spanish authorities
have refused permission for the Moroccan Army to use a
portion of the main road which traverses the Saguia el
Hamra Province of Spanish Sahara between Morocco and
the coastal population centers.
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III. THE WEST
Austria.: The Austrian Government is considering
joining the six-nation European Common Market because
of the need for closer economic ties with Western Europe
and Vienna's discouragement over prospects for the pro-
jected free trade area. Such a move would require
"stretching" the Austrian neutrality law and might an-
tagonize the USSR. The Austrians have already indi-
cated concern over the reaction of the USSR, which has
ment of Western imperialism.
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repeatedly attacked the Common Market as an instru-
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Possible Soviet Missile-Launching Submarine Sighted
A very reliable observer sighted a .large submarine,
apparently fitted to launch guided missiles, in the Kola
Gulf area of the Murman Peninsula of the USSR on 14
March. This submarine, possibly a Z-class unit, had
a large tank on the deck aft of the conning tower, which
had been heightened, possibly to house electronics
equipment. No launching ramp was reported, although
it is possible that the ramp was stowed either in the hang-
er with the missile or retracted into the main deck.
This is considered the most reliable sighted report
yet received on a possible missile-launching submarine.
The USSR has 18 Z-class units, 11 of which are in the
Northern Fleet and 4 in the Pacific. The Z-class is. the
largest postwar submarine known to have been built in
the USSR and is suited for conversion to a missile-
launching role. A photograph taken in August in the
naval dockyard at Murmansk showed a Z-class unit with
a mo ification to the top of its conning tower, but no
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Soviet Journal Calls for Stepped-up Satellite Collectivization
The USSR may be reversing its policy of permitting each
satellite to determine the speed at which it carries out its
internal socialization program. The latest issue of the So-
viet party journal Kommunist, in an article discussing the
inevitability of total agricultural collectivization in the satel-
lites, calls for acceleration of this process in at least some
of them.
Publication of the article in Kommunist gives it con-
siderable authority and may signify increased Soviet readi-
ness to intervene directly in satellite affairs. Fear that
Khrushchev's MTS reorganization plan might induce relaxa-
tion of the collectivization effort in the satellites may have
brought out the hard Soviet line at this time.
Although the article admits that collectivization must be
carried through gradually, it points out that such a policy
requires the "inevitable" liquidation of peasant opposition.
Citing both Soviet and Chinese experience as "useful models,"
the author singles out Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia "in par-
ticular," and Rumania and Albania secondarily, as countries
where conditions are now favorable for eradicating the re-
maining peasant opposition. Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia are
already highly collectivized and have been pushing the forci-
ble liquidation of such opposition as remains. This article
serves to reaffirm them in this policy.
Omission of any reference to East Germany, Poland,
and Hungary is probably in recognition of the peculiar con-
ditions in those countries which militate against increasing
collectivization at this time. It is probably intended, how-
ever, as a strong hint to these regimes not to overlook the
fact that they must eventually collectivize.
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Renewed Communal Violence in Ceylon Possible
Prime Minister Bandarannaike of Ceylon is again under
severe pressure from rival Singhalese- and Tamil-speak-
ing elements over the status of the Tamil language.
Singhalese has been the official national language since
July 1956. In mid-1957, Ceylon's 2,000,000 minority popula-
tion of Indian origin threatened widespread revolt if their
native language, Tamil, were not also granted official
status. Agreement in July between Bandaranaike and Tamil
leaders for the limited use of Tamil brought temporary
peace. Bandaranaike, however, failed to implement the
agreement and the Tamils renewed their agitation on 1 April
1958.
n~ase again.
During a tense session of Parliament on 8 April, a ma-
jority of Bandaranaike's coalition firmly opposed the agree-
ments, and some 25 coalition, members reportedly threatened
to bring down the government. The next day Bandaranaike,
under Singhalese pressure, announced that his pact with the
Tamils could not be implemented.
The Tamils on 11 April opened a civil disobedience cam-
paign. Leaders of the Tamil Federal party said that the
formation of a united front of all Tamil-speaking people, which
would include most of Ceylon's plantation workers, would be
suggested at the party's annual convention scheduled for 2 May.
This communal issue is one on which tempers can run
high, and the possibility of serious trouble exists. Ban-
daranaike, however, has successfully maintained peace on
previous occasions and may be able to reach some compro-
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Moroccan-Spanish Difficulties Develop in Southern Morocco
Difficulties appear to have developed in implementing
the scheduled 10 April transfer to Morocco of control over
the protectorate of Southern Morocco, a 25, 000-square-
mile strip of territory which Spain has governed. as part of
Spanish Sahara. After some months of bargaining and under
threat of a forcible take-over by the Moroccan Army, Spain
finally agreed to this transfer during a secret meeting on 1
April between Foreign Minister Castiella and Moroccan For-
eign Minister Balafrej. Except for the temporary retention
of some Spanish troops in the area, Morocco apparently a:
greed to none of the concessions demanded by Spain, partic-
ularly a guarantee of the area's southern boundary.
Balafrej publicly warned Spain on 11 April that Morocco
would retaliate if Spanish authorities "did not remove ob-
stacles hindering Moroccan forces" from assuming control
over the coastal area of Tarfaia? Evidently Spanish author-
ities have refused the Moroccan Army permission to use a
portion of the main route between Morocco and the Atlantic
coast where the capital city and other principal population
centers are located. Because of the terrain, this road cuts
into the Saguia el Hamra Province of Spanish Sahara, which
Morocco also covets,
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III. THE WEST
Austria May Seek Direct Accession to European Common
Market
Discouraged by the prospects for the European free
trade area, Vienna is actively considering the possibility
of Austrian accession in some form to the European Com-
mon Market (EEC). The government has for some time
recognized that the Austrian economy would be in serious
straits if European economic integration should hinder.
Austrian access to markets in the EEC countries. In the
cabinet's discussion of the Common Market on 9 April it
was suggested that in view of Austria's neutrality law and
long-standing Soviet objections to the EEC, Austria on
joining might make "appropriate" reservations.
Vienna is perhaps being misled by the relatively mild
response of Soviet Ambassador Lapin to an initial approach
made by Chancellor Raab last month. Lapin is said to have
been "negative, but not too much so." He warned Raab,
however, that "those people (presumably the :Common Mar-
ket members) would have him by the throat." Moscow has
in general viewed the six-nation community as an instru-
ment of imperialism dominated by Bonn.
Raab may hesitate to make any further approach to the
USSR until after his visit to Moscow in July, when he hopes
to negotiate a reduction in Austria's reparations deliveries.
A formal approach to the ;SEC for bilateral negotiations
will also depend on whether the prospects for a free trade
area improve during the negotiations scheduled for later
thisAnonth and early May.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
12 April 1958
DAILY BRIEF
USSR - Guided missile, ubmarine: A submarine
possibly equipped t5
sighted in the Kola Gulf,rea
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USSR - Satellites: Certain Eastern European satellites
have apparently been called on to increase pressure on the
peasants to join collective farms. The latest issue of the
Soviet party jburnal Kommunist points out that while col-
lectivization should be a gradual process, liquidation of
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peasant opposition is necessary and inevitable. If Moscow
presses the satellites to take this course, it would be a
reversal of previous Soviet policy that each satellite should
decide its own speed of socialization and would seem to
indicate .Moscow' dissatisfaction with the rate of satellite
collectivization.
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