TOP SECRET SUPPLEMENT TO THE CURRENT INTELLIGENCE DIGEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T01146A001200120002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
25 August 1952.
US OFFICIALS ONLY CIA No. 49777
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Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This summary of significant reports has been prepared primarily
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or in the Office of Current Intelligence. Comments represent the
immediate views of the Office of Current Intelligence.
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THUS MATERIAL CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL
DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
ESPIONAGE LAWS, TITLE 18, USC, SECS, 793 AND 794, THE
TRANSMISSION OR REVELATION OF WHICH IN ANY MANNER TO AN
UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW,
1. French bank official reportedly sees Mao Tse-tung: Jean
Laurent, managing director of the Banque a ndochine,
allegedly protested to Mao Tse-tung recently about restric-
tions imposed on the bank's employees in China. Mao advised
Laurent that the restrictions could not be lifted unless
25X1A Chinese dollar assets amounting to $15,000,000 to $20,000,000,
presently frozen in the United States with the French-American
25X1A FOR CRITICAL SECURITY REASONS this report is not
the borders of the United States,without the express permission
of the releasing office,)
Comment: It is extremely unusual for a Westerner to be
able to talk directly to Mao.
The French Foreign Office asked the American Embassy in
Paris last July if the United States would unblock the
$5,827,712 held here through the Banque de L'Indochine,
because the Chinese Communists would not release French na-
tionals now in China unless these funds were forthcoming.
This proposal was unacceptable to the Departments of State
and Treasury.
2. Czechoslovak Legation in Mexico reportedly helps finance
Latin American la or group: The Czechoslovak Minister in
Mexico is reliably reported to have personally delivered
$6,000 in cash to Vincente Lombardo Toledano in April 1951
for the use of the Latin American Confederation of Workers
(CTRL), He had allegedly withdrawn the money from the Banco
de Mexico, which had received it from the State Bank in Prague.
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Comment: The CTAL, of which Lombardo Toledano is Pre-
sident,,iis an affiliate of the Communist-controlled World
Federation of Trade Unions. It regularly contributes to
Communist-dominated groups in several Latin American countries
and has often been reported receiving financial support from
WFTU headquarters in Vienna. This, however, is the first
report of direct financial assistance from an Orbit embassy.
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