CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/03/26

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02026920
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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: March 26, 1953

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SUMMARY
SOVIET UNION
1. USSR redeploys jet fighters in Far East (page 3).
FAR EAST
Movement of Chinese armies from Korea confirmed (page 3).
Taipei agrees in principle to withdrawal of forces from Burma
(page 5).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Polish ship in Rangoon loading rubber and steel for Communist
China (page 5).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Mossadeq reportedly takes steps to remove Majlis opposition
leader (page 6).
6 Ibn Saud grants Farouk $500,000 annually (page 7).
Israel asks United States for $70,000,000 grant (page 7).
WESTERN EUROPE
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. Key German politician reportedly favors Bundesrat approval of
EDC (page 7).
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SOVIET UNION
1. USSR redeploys jet fighters in Far East:
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at least 217 MIG-15's were scheduled to make
one-way flights from bases in the southern
Maritime Province to more northerly bases,
including Sakhalin, (see map, p. 4).
Approx imately 100 of these were scheduled for
Komsomolsk. Other flights, originating at 9th Air Army and 5th Fleet
bases, terminated at 10th Air Army and 7th Fleet bases in the northern
Maritime area and on Sakhalin.
Comment: About 90 of the MIG-15's scheduled
for Komsomolsk were based at four southern Maritime airfields where
new-type MIG' s have recently been operating. This suggests that these
aircraft may have been removed to the major MIG-15 factory known to
be located at Komsomolsk for reconditioning or modification after
being replaced by later model jets. Some of these planes, in addition
to 20 others slated for Khabarovsk, may also be destined to bolster the
limited jet fighter strength in the Khabarovsk-Komsomolsk areas.
Dispatch of 90 MIG-15's from 5th Fleet bases
to 7th Fleet airfields would strengthen Soviet naval air units along the
upper Maritime coast and on southern Sakhalin.
FAR EAST
2. Movement of Chinese armies from Korea confirmed:
three Chinese Communist
armies, including the 20th and 42nd, were
transferred from northeast China to areas in East and SouthLChina
where they had been based prior to the Korean war. Two additional
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armies which were still in Korea in February were to be transferred to
China proper to strengthen the coastal defense.
Comment This report tends to confirm
previous analysis that theWscale troop movement from South and
East China to Korea during the past several months represents a
rotation rather than a reinforcement of Chinese Communist forces in
Korea.
3. Taipei agrees in principle to withdrawal of forces from Burma.
Taipei agrees in principle to the withdrawal
of Chinese Nationalist forces from Burma but, because of the
practical difficulties involved, "cannot be held responsible" for
failing to effect it.
Comment The Nationalist Government
has previously been reluctant even to agree in principle to the
withdrawal and probably will not cooperate in carrying it out.
Meanwhile the Burmese Government on
25 March lodged a complaint with the United Nations against
Chinese Nationalist aggression.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
4. Polish ship in Rangoon loading rubber and steel for Communist China
A Polish vessel is in Rangoon loading 1, 500
tons of Burmese rubber and 300 tons of
scrap steel for discharge at the Chinese
Communist port of Whampoa, following a
stop at Colombo.
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The American Embassy in Rangoon
believes that the decision by the Burmese to permit this shipment
was reached at cabinet level.
Comme tt This shipment will mark the
first known delivery of rubber fr m a United Nations member to
Communist China since the UN-sponsored embargo of May 1951.
In early February, a Burmese Cabinet
member told an Embassy officer that in view of its neutral foreign
policy, Burma was reluctant to forbid rubber exports to China. This
is probably a sincere explanation, considering the Rangoon govern-
ment's extreme fear of angering Peiping.
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5. Mossadeq reportedly takes steps to remove Majlis opposition leader:
On 20 March Prime Minister Mossadeq
appointed Haerizadeh, pro-Shah leader of
the opposition in the Majlis, as a "special
inspector" of Iranian diplomatic missions
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Comment: Mossadeq, feeling that
Haerizadeh, who recently formed a 10-man "Freedom" group in
the Majlis, could not be accused of being a "British agent," apparently
chose this method as the simplest way to remove him.
The same tactics were employed last
September to remove another potential Mossadeq rival, Allahyar
Saleh� who was appointed Ambassador to the United States.
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6. Ibn Saud grants Farouk $500,000 annually:
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Farouk some months ago and has allotted
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He has also
directed that Farouk be urged to continue
to "have confidence" in him.
Comment: In allotting this aid, Ibn Saud
runs a serious risk of damaging the good relations he has promoted
with the Nagib government in Cairo.
7. Israel asks United States for $70,000,000 grant:
Ambassador Eban and three other Israeli
officials in Washington have asked the
State Department for a grant of approx-
imately $70,000,000 to meet debts falling
due between April 1953 and May 1954. The Israelis stated that
the national debt would be permanently reduced by that amount.
Comment: On 10 March Ambassador
Davis reported from Tel Aviv that Israel was planning to request
"one-time" special assistance from the United States and would
require $20,000,000 in outside aid for the quarter ending 30 June
1953.
WESTERN EUROPE
8. Key German politician reportedly favors Bundesrat approval of EDC:
Reinhold Maier, head of the key Baden-
Wuerttemberg delegation in the West
German Bundesrat, reportedly told a
meeting of his Free Democratic Party
that approval of the Bonn and Paris treaties in the
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upper, house would not fail for lack of Baden-Wuerttemberg's five
votes. Chancellor Adenauer allegedly asked Maier to. postpone
Bundesrat action in order to have a bargaining point in his forthcoming
Washington talks.
Comment: Maier, whose attitude on
ratification has not been clear, is in a position to tip the scales
either way in the Bundesrat. Favorable Bundesrat action on the
treaties, which received final lower house approval on 19 March,
now appears likely by late April.
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