CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/10/02

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05973631
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• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2019
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2019
• Publication Date: October 2, 1952

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1. Colombia threatens to withdraw battalion from Korea (page 3).
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2. New Chinese Communist troop movements to Manchuria reported
(page 3).
3. Enemy to continue heavy attacks in western Korea during October
(page 4).
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5. Mossadeq argues that Iranian Communists are indigenous (page 5).
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6. East Germans may announce "national armed forces" on 7 October
(page 5).
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L Colombia threatens to withdraw battalion from-Korea:
Armed Forces Commander General Rojas
Pinilla has informed the American Army
Attache in Bogota that because of domestic
disorders, he must recommend to President
Urdaneta that Colombia withdraw its battalion from the UN Command
in Korea.
The American Ambassador and the attache
believe that this threat is probably being used as a lever to secure
prompt delivery of arms purchased last June in the United States.
Comment: Rojas Pinilla's desire to recall
the battalion May also indicate a growing apprehension over the
army's ability to control domestic violence and avert open civil
war.
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Such a withdrawal might well have an adverse
political and psychological effect in the UN General Assembly when
the United States requests more and larger troop commitments for
Korea.
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2, New Chinese Communist troop movements to Manchuria reported:
A total of 45 troop trains carrying 50,000 3.3(h)(2)
men passed through Tientsin destined for
Manchuria between 28 August and 8 September,
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guards stated that the men, including airborne as well as ground troops
from the Third and Fourth Field Armies, were being sent to Mukden,
where they were to receive new Soviet equipment.
Comment: While the receipt of new Soviet
equipment by= the Chinese Communists at Mukden cannot be confirmed,
replacements for the armies in Korea, presumably transferred from
units in China, are often ussembled at Mukden.
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There have been no recent reports
indicating that Chinese Communists are sending paratroops to
Manchuria.
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3. Enemy to continue heavy attacks in western Korea during October:
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three
regiments of the Chinese 116th Division were
scheduled to "counterattack" certain terrain
features in western Korea "in the first part
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of October."
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Comment: These scheduled attacks apparently
have as their objective key terrain features, including "Kelly Hill,"
presently held by UN forces in the west.
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that recently intensified Communist operations at the front are limited
in their objectives.
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5. Mossadeq argues that Iranian Communists are indigenous:
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Communism
had not been brought into Iran from the out-
side, but had been caused by widespread
poverty within the country.
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Iran has few ideological Communists,
Even the Tudeh leaders are not real Communists;
some are "connected with the British" and others are paid agents.
The only way to eliminate indigenous Communists is to eliminate want.
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6. East Germans may announce "national armed forces" on 7 October:
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be proclaimed on 7 October, the third
anniversary of the East German Republic,
have been given greater weight than usual
by current developments,
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of announcement of an East German army is a favorite subject, of
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Comment: Since preparations for the
creation of an East German armed force are well advanced, and since
its development will not be materially affected by a formal proclamation,
the timing of the announcement would appear to be governed by political
considerations. It has been assumed hitherto that formal proclamation
would not come before Bonn's ratification of the EDC treaty.
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