CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/02/21

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02050123
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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: February 21, 1953

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
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Stalin displays indifference to India's Korean proposals in Menon
talk (page 3).
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3. Egypt will not insist on "unconditional" evacuation of Suez Canal
(page 4).
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5. Hungarian Politburo member reportedly commits suicide (page 5).
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GENERAL
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2. Stalin displays indifference to India's Korean proposals in Mellon talk:
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According to statements of Indian Ambassado3.3(h)(2)
K. P. S. Menon, Stalin failed to use their inter-
view to advance new proposals on Korea and
showed little interest in Menon's exposition of
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India's UN resolution. He referred to the question of the US Seventh
Fleet and Formosa as an example of the difficulty of dealing with
Americans.
While agreeing with Menon's suggestion
that "there were many good Americans," Stalin observed that "un-
fortunately, the US was governed by profit motives." The US Embassy
adds that British Commonwealth representatives in Moscow have
remarked on Stalin's "apparent obsession that capitalism is block-
ing world peace."
Comment: The interview with the Indian
Ambassador may have been intended to mollify Indian resentment
over Soviet rejection of India's UN resolution. Stalin's indifference
to the discussion of Korean issues suggests continued Soviet intransi-
gence on the repatriation question.
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3. Egypt will not insist on "unconditional" evacuation of Suez Canal:
The Egyptian Foreign Minister and a
member of the High Committee in charge
of negotiations with Britain have assured
the American Embassy that Egypt will not
deliver a note demanding "unconditional" British evacuation of the
Suez Canal zone.
Ambassador Caffery also reports that
Egyptian leaders have agreed to make no further public statements
on the Sudan or on evacuation pending the development of forthc ming
defense negotiations.
Comment: It was earlier reported that
the High Committee was planning to demand British agreement t
unconditional evacuation prior to negotiations. It now appears that
the Egyptian leaders hope to create an atmosphere favorable for
arranging gradual withdrawal of British troops from the canal zone.
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5. Hungarian Politburo member reportedly commits suicide:
Two independent, usually reliable sources 3.3(h)(2)
have reported the suicide of Politburo mem-
ber Zoltan Vas, former director of the
Hungarian Planning Office. The American
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Legation in Budapest believes that the report is probably true.
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Comment Zoltan Vas, who is Jewish and
an old friend of Premier Rakosi, was removed from his position as head
of the Planning Office on 2 February and assigned as production chief of
the Komlo coal mines, which in 1952 reached only 30 percent of their
production goals.
Vas is thus far the only Politburo member
known to have been affected by the current Hungarian purge, which
otherwise has been limited to present and former Jewish officials of
the Security Police.
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