CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 24, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
24 March 1959
DAILY BRIEF
1. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
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position for the long pull. The Soviet ambassador in Baghdad
urged Ambassador Jernegan on 20 March to promote "coopera-
tion" between the USSR and the United States in order to ease
current tensions in the Middle East. Thompson interprets
private remarks of presidium member Kozlov on 16 March as
indicating a belief by Soviet leaders that the Middle East will
eventually "go Communist;" but that this will be a long process.
Moscow continues to criticize Nasir's anti-Qasim., anti-Commu-
nist attacks., but it apparently has made no move thus far to in-
terfere with economic or military assistance to the UAR.
*USSR - Middle East: [Ambassador Thompson in Moscow
believes that Soviet leaders are embarrassed by the extent, tc
which the prospect of a Communist takeover in Iraq has be-
come evident, and that they will endeavor to conceal the ex-
tent of Communist influence there while consolidating their
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Cambodia - South Vietnam: [Tense relations between Cam-
bodia an South Vietnam continue, with the tempo of public
charges and countercharges between. the two countries rising.
Through the controlled press, the Cambodian Government is
again threatening to move closer to the Communist bloc unles FOR,
South Vietnam crops its -menacing- pose.
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of assisting the Africans in their struggle against the white-
dominated government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nya-
Nyasaland. LA group of Asian-African states may be plan-
ning to seek UN consideration of the two-month-old Nyasaland
dispute, The steering committee of the All-African People's
Conference in Accra will meet in early April to discuss means
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I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
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II. ASIA-AFRICA
Cambodia - South Vietnamese Relations
Cambodian - South Vietnamese relations are becoming
increasingly bitter. Cambodia is incensed at Vietnam's flat
denial of any wrongdoing in the face of "irrefutable" evidence
that it has been involved in plotting against Premier Sihanouk
and Phnom Penh accuses Saigon of an unreconstructed attitude.
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Sihanouk's press organ Realitds on 21 March printed a
photostat of an alleged conspiratorial letter to the late dissi-
dent General Dap Chhuon from Vietnam's former representative
in Cambodia, Ngo Trong Hieu. The paper threatened to publish
"more embarrassing documents" unless Vietnam at least repu-
diated Hieu as acting without official sanction. Furthermore,
Realitds hinted that Cambodia will be forced to turn to the Com-
munist bloc for support unless Vietnam drops its "menacing"
pose. It offered Saigon the choice of a "neutral and correct" or
a "progressive and hostile" Cambodia.
eanwhile, deepening Cambodian suspicion that the United
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States is in league with South Vietnam against Sihanouk has
reached a stage of almost open hostility. This attitude, sanc-
tioned and encouraged by the Sihanouk government, is creating
a climate favorable to expanded Communist bloc influence in
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Asian-African States May Raise Nyasaland Dispute in UN
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that a group of Asian-African states plans to bring the two-
month-old Nyasaland dispute to the attention of the United
Nations, presumably the Security Council
Uln addition, an official of the All-African People's Con-
ference (AAPC) permanent secretariat reportedly has announced
a meeting of the steering committee for early April to discuss
means of assisting the Africans in their struggle against the
white-dominated government of the Federation of Rhodesia and.
Nyasaland. Although peaceful tactics such as civil disobedience
and economic boycotts were stressed by the AAPC during its
conference in Accra, Ghana, last December, the pace of events
in Tropical Africa has strengthened the extremists who had suc-
ceeded at Accra in obtaining only oblique endorsement of the
use of violence in special situations.
Ghana's Prime Minister Nkrumah, who acted as a moderating
influence at the December meeting,, reportedly now has agreed to
discuss the possibility of supporting violence. Meanwhile, he
has offered his country's good offices to settle the dispute and
has called for a round-table conference to work out a constitution
which would "respect the will of the majority and provide safe-
guards for the racial minorities:'
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
Scientific Adviser to the President
Director of the Budget
Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization
Special Assistant for Security Operations Coordination
Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities
Special Assistant for Foreign Economic Policy
Executive Secretary, National Security Council
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary for Administration
The Counselor
Director, International Cooperation Administration
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Chairman, The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
The Director, The Joint Staff
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Assistant to Secretary of Defense for Special Operations
Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army
Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of the Navy
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander in Chief, Pacific
The Department of the Interior
The Secretary of the Interior
The Department of Commerce
The Secretary of Commerce
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Director
Atomic Energy Commission
The Chairman
National Security Agency
The Director
National Indications Center
The Director
United States Information Agency
The Director
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