CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/04/08

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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: April 8, 1953

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SUMMARY
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1. Mossadeq reportedly appoints delegation for Moscow talks (page 3).
SOVIET UNION
2. Moscow Embassy comments on denunciation of Ignatiev (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
3. President Quirino's brother reportedly seeking Huk support for
Liberal Party (page 4).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
4. British Embassy recommends concession to Cairo on starting
defense talks (page 4).
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GENERAL
1. Mossadeq reportedly appoints delegation for Moscow talks:
Prime Minister Mossadeq appointed General 3.3(h)(2)
Ismael Shafai on 2 April as head of a special
Iranian delegation to Moscow to discuss the
problems of Caspian fisheries and Iranian gold
held in the Soviet Union[
Shafai, who was educated in Russia, was
previously a military attache in Moscow, and was a member of the
Iranian delegation at Stalin's funeral.
Comment: The Soviet Union has held $12,000,000
of Iranian gold since its occupation of northern Iran in 1941.
The appointment of Shafai, who is pro-Soviet,
would suggest a desire to seek a solution of current Iranian-Soviet dif-
ferences. Mossadeq may believe that overtures to the USSR will help
persuade the United States to give him financial aid.
SOVIET UNION
2. Moscow Embassy comments on denunciation of Ignatiev,
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The American Embassy in Moscow states thL3(h)(2)a
the Pravda attack against S. D. Ignatiev is the
first such criticism of a Central Committee
Secretariat member for many years. The
Embassy notes that interfactional problems were apparently not resolved
at the time of Ignatiev's appointment to the Secretariat on 7 March.
Ignatiev's earlier experience as a party worker
for the Secretariat might identify him as a Malenkov protege, although
evidence of this is meager and the various personality alignments are
still too unclear to be assessed. At the same time, the dominant party
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leadership may be attempting to foster the impression that Malenkov's
promise, made at Stalin's funeral, to protect individual rights is being
carried out.
Comment: Before his am:ointment as Minister
of State Security in 1951, Ignatiev wa
superintendent of the power epartment of Party
wit in the Central Committee apparatus under Malenkov.
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3. President Quirino's brother reportedly seeking Huk support for Liberal
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reliably informed that President Quirino's
brother is in contact with Huk leader Luis
Taruc in order to arrange his surrender and
enlist Huk support for the Liberal Party. The Embassy fears that such .
a surrender would give the Huks the opportunity they seek to infiltrate
the government.
Comment: Emissaries of President Quirino
have on several occasions during the last year sought to arrange a dra-
matic Huk surrender in order to recoup the Liberal Party's popularity.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
4. British Embassy recommends concession to Cairo on starting defense
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ing to London acceptance of the Egyptian pro-
posal to begin informal defense talks excluding
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any discussion of MEDO. The Embassy is hopeful that Egyptian
participation in MEDO would follow Anglo-Egyptian agreement on
evacuation of British troops, methods for maintaining the Suez
Canal base, and joint air defense arrangements.
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