CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/11/14

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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
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• Publication Date: November 14, 1953

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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3.5(c)
SUMMARY
GENERAL
FAR EAST
USSR apparently intends to keep its fighter units in Manchuria
(page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
3. Chinese Communist threat to Burma reported (page 4).
Viet Minh extends control over delta villages page
EASTERN EUROPE
6. Soviet Union may reduce trade with Finland (page 6).
WESTERN EUROPE
7.
Rome reportedly would accept Trteste solution propose
last May (page 8).
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GENERAL
FAR EAST
2. USSR apparently intends to keep its fighter units in Manchuria:
Comment: The continued activity of
Soviet fighter elements in southeast Manchuria is further evidence
of Communist efforts to maintain a state of combat readiness.
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SOUTI1AST ASIA
3. Chinese Communist threat to Burma reported:
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The Chinese Communists have stationed
three divisions in the Burma Road border
area, and Burmese forces have moved into
the northern Shan States to meet the threat,
/one of the Shan chieftains in Burma has turned
Communist and that others are likely to do so because of their dis-
like for the Burmese.
Comment: Three divisions of the Chinese
Communist 14th Army for two years have straddled the Burma Road
from the border to Tall, the army's headquarters 150 miles to the
north. The presence of Chinese Nationalist forces has been a standing
invitation for Peiping to intervene in Burma, but there is no convincing
evidence that the Communists are preparing to do so.
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with the Burmese government among the Shans, who number over 1,000,000
and are the second largest minority group in Burma. The Communists
have often been reported to be exploiting this attitude.
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5. Viet Minh extends control over delta villages:
The number of villages in the Tonkin 3.3(h)(2)
delta securely held by French and
Vietnamese forces decreased by 20
percent from January through September
of this year, according to administrative officials of the provincial
government. The number held by the Viet Minh increased by nine
percent and there was also an increase in the number under fluctuating
control. In September, 1,361 villages were secure, 1,959 were insecure,
and 2,245 were in enemy hands.
Comment: These statistics provide yet
� another illustration of the Viet Minh's success in extending its control
within the French defense perimeter.
Tonkin administrative officials reported
last February that the number of villages held by the Viet Minh had
doubled between 1951 and 1953.
EASTERN EUROPE
6. Soviet Union may reduce trade with Finland:
The USSR has refused thus far, in current 3.3(h)(2)
trade negotiations, to conclude contracts
for over $18,000,000 worth of engineering
products, mainly wood processing machinery,
offered by Finland, on grounds that prices are too high. Preliminary
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reports on the trade agreement, signature of which is expected next
week, indicate that Finnish deliveries of ships, sawn timber and pre-
fabricated houses conform generally to basic quotas. In addition
Finland has secured a reduction of 1152000 tons in wheat imports from
the USSR.
A Finnish trade delegate did not rule out
the possibility that Moscow might be attempting to depress Finland's
metal industry for political purposes.
Comment A reduction of $18,000,000--some
12 percent of Finnish exports to the USSR--would cause great hardship to
Finland's metalworking industries, which were expanded after the war to
pay reparations to Russia and which are largely dependent upon Orbit
markets. Depressed world markets have already deprived Finland of its
important timber sales to the West.
A 12 November Soviet decree suggests that
the USSR's motivation for reducing its imports of wood-processing
machinery is primarily economic. The decree indicates that the indus-
try's immediate need is apparently not more wood-processing machinery
but the better utilization of logging equipment, a strengthened labor force
and improved transportation.
WESTERN EUROPE
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8. Rome reportedly would accept Trieste solution proposed by US last May:
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3.3(h)(2)
The Italian ambassador to France, currently 3.3(h)(2)
in Rome in connection with the Trieste ques-
tion, told Ambassador Luce on 12 November
that the plan suggested by the United States
in May 1953 would be generally acceptable to Italy as a definitive solution.
The ambassador added that Premier Pella
fears the United States and Britain will be intimidated by a Yugoslav
threat to walk out of the conference unless Tito's demands are met.
Yugoslavia, according to the Italian ambassador, will demand the Slav
hinterland in Zone A, without concessions to Italy in Zone B, and will
also demand the construction of a separate port and corridor to the sea.
The Italians hope that the United States and
Britain will realize that a separate Yugoslav port would be uneconomic
and that a Yugoslav corridor would be a future source of trouble.
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