CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/12/13

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02745283
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• Document Creation Date: April 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2019
• Publication Date: December 13, 1951

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
I. British still uncertain about supporting Greece for Security Council
seat (page 3).
USSR
2. Italian envoy believes Kremlin does not expect US attack (page 3).
FAR EAST
3. Report of "swept-wing aircraft" on Haeju airfield believed erroneous
(page 4).
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7. Churchill allays Adenauer's suspicions of Western "deal" with USSR
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1. British still uncertain about supporting Greece for Security Council seat:
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The British delegate to the UN General Assembly
has been instructed to talk with the French and
Commonwealth representatives with a view to
voting for Greek representation on the UN
Security Council if enough other votes can be
won over to ensure Greece's election. Eden
made it clear that the UK could not make any
definite promises until after these talks.
The US delegation comments that it is clear that
the French position is entirely dependent upon that of the British. It also
advises that the election of Greece may be difficult even with British support.
Comment: Although Eden has been pressed
repeatedly by US representatives within the past few days to support Greece,
the British are holding to their traditional policy that the Western countries
should avoid provoking Soviet charges that the UN is Western-dominated.
USSR
2. Italian envoy believes Kremlin does not expect US attack:
In the opinion of the Italian Ambassador to
Moscow, Soviet officials do not actually expect
an attack from the United States despite their
charges of 'aggressive American intentions.
e Italian Ambassador concludes that the Kremlin's primary fear is that
when Western "positions of strength" are established and German re-
militarization completed the West will make demands upon the Soviet Union
which it could not tolerate.
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The US Charge comments that the Italian
Ambassador has had long experience in the USSR and that he had unusual
opportunities to see high Soviet and Satellite officials recently preparatory
to departure from his post.
FAR EAST
3. Report of "swept-wing aircraft" on Haeju airfield believed erroneous:
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The US Fifth Air Force in Korea reports that
the 7 December sighting by a US reconnaissance
bomber crew of nine "swept-wing aircraft" on
an airfield near Haeju, 75 miles from Seoul, has
now been discredited. It is believed that formations of ice and snow on the
ground may have given the air crew members a false impression, In
addition, it is doubtful that jet aircraft could operate from this field.
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7. Churchill allays Adenauer's suspicions of Western "deal" with USSR:
Chancellor Adenauer, concerned at a possible
Western "deal" with, the USSR at German ex-
pense, was assured by Prime Minister Churchill
during their recent meeting in London that,
,'"" "even to "avoid war," the UK would not make an agreement involving Germany
without close consultation with the West German Government.
The Prime Minister laid that he still wanted
to establish "tolerable relations" with the USSR, tut had come to the
conclusion that the present Soviet Government "feared our friendship more
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than our enmity." Churchill agreed with Adenauer that West German
integration into the European community must precede German unification.
Comment: This statement to Adenauer
appreciably qualifies the remark made by Churchill to the French Ambassa-
dor in London shortly before the general election to the effect that German
rearmament should be used as a lever in negotiations with the Russians.
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