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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 30, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

G e 0 MAR 1950
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1o E9yPt reporntedly asking UK to withdraw from Suez and Sudan--
US Ambassador Caffery in Cairo has learned from British
officials there that an Egyptian note, calling for an early Brit-
ish withdrawal from Suez and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, is
en route to London for delivery to Foreign Secretary Bevin,
According to the British, the note was moderately worded,
largely because King Farouk insisted that the original draft
be "toned down.
(CIA Comment- CIA believes that the Egyptian Gov-
ernment, which had been expected to reopen negotiations re-
garding its alliance with the UK, is probably asking for more
than it expects to get, both for bargaining purposes and for
home consumptioh. CIA further believes that
Anglo?Egyptian discussions will probably be both prolonged
an involved-)
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2. INDOCHINA- Views on US aid for Indochina--US representa
tive Griffin, in his summary report from Saigon on the possi-
bilities of utilizing US funds for resisting Communism in
Indochina, expresses the opinion that the wave of Communism
in Indochina is predominantly nationalistic rather than eco-
nomic, social, or ideological. Griffin believes that although
the situation is not serious enough to warrant defeatism, it
does justify effective application of US economic aid to
strengthen the Bao Dai Government and to win non-Commu-
nist elements from among the followers of Ho Chi Minh.
Griffin points out that the general French attitude caused his
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mission concern regarding the possibility of "exercising
even minimum US supervision" over an assistance program
and suggests that Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia should be
direct recipients of any economic aid from the US. Griffin
adds that a formula for distributing US aid to Indochina
`must be found for taking advantage of French experience
without appearing to consolidate French hegemony," and
comments that, to be effective, US aid must be bold, quick,
and generous.
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