CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/06/18

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• Publication Date: June 18, 1955

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1.
SOVIET UNION
2. Partial Soviet troop withdrawal from Austria may begin in July
(page 3),
FAR EAST
3. Comment on Japanese reaction to Soviet rebuff on repatriation
(page 4).
EASTERN EUROPE
4. East German officials apprehensive on second anniversary of
17 June riots (page 5).
LATIN AMERICA
5� Comment on the situation in Argentina (page 5).
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GENERAL
1.
SOVIET UNION
2. Partial Soviet troop withdrawal from Austria may begin in July:
, the
withdrawal of Soviet troops from Austria
Is to begin in early July.
the Soviet transport officer
for Austria has levied rail requirements
Viet troops from Austria to Chop--the Soviet
rail transshipment center on the Soviet-Hungarian border. This
movement is expected to take one month.
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A move to Chop would indicate that troops
would be withdrawn to the Soviet Union.
American officials in Austria believe that
the reported requirement of rail cars is inadequate to move all
Soviet forces from Austria; the remainder could move out by motor
transportation. American officials also believe that the USSR would
not begin a major withdrawal until after the Austrian treaty is rati-
fied.
Comment: This report may refer to plan-
ning in connection with a phased Soviet withdrawal, with some ele-
ments moving to the USSR. There have been fragmentary indica-
tions of preparation in Hungary to receive Soviet troops.
Ratification of the Austrian treaty is ex-
pected before the various parliaments recess for the summer.
The date scheduled for this troop with-
drawal suggests that the move is planned for its propaganda effect
during the summit conference.
FAR EAST
3. Comment on Japanese reaction to Soviet rebuff on repatriation:
Japanese popular reaction to the Soviet
Union's refusal to discuss at the London
talks on 14 June the repatriation of Soviet-
held Japanese indicates approval of chirf
delegate Matsumoto 's strong stand that
this issue must be settled before Soviet
peace proposals are discussed. Soviet
s a leged assertion that all Japanese prisoners
except war criminals have been returned has provoked popular anger,
according to a Japanese press agency.
The issue has long been charged with emo-
tion for the Japanese people, and the government would have public
support should the negotiations break down on this problem.
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EASTERN EUROPE
4. East German officials apprehensive on second anniversary of
17-June riots:
the East German
railroad's political department on 16 June revealed that railroad
authorities were taking extreme precautions against possible out-
bursts of violence on the anniversary of the riots of 17 June 1953.
Railroad authorities were leaning over backwards to avoid giving
"people any reason to talk about the 17 June business." For this
reason, these officials had dissuaded transport police from carry-
ing small arms or taking any measures which might appear provoca-
tive.
LATIN AMERICA
5. Comment on the situation in Argentina:
Various unconfirmed reports suggest that
the revolt in Argentina is continuing in
some parts of the country and possibly
gaining new support. In any case, the Peron
regime, which claims that it completely
quashed the rebellion within five hours af-
ter it started on 16 June, apparently is not
in complete control of the country.
Press and radio reports from Montevideo
have quoted rebel broadcasts claiming that
the three army garrisons at Cordoba, Santa
Fe, and Entre Rios and naval forces at the major naval base of Puerto
Belgrano have joined the revolt. Admiral Anibal Olivieri, who was
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minister of the navy until fired by Peron after the start of the
revolt, was mentioned by the rebel radio as the leader of revolu-
tionary forces at Puerto Belgrano, and the two warships which
participated in the initial outbreaks in Buenos Aires were said to
be en route to that naval base to aid the rebels.
Argentine naval officers who fled to Uruguay on 16 June have
named Brigadier General Leon Justo Bengoa as leader of the plot
against Peron. The military involved in the plot are said to be-
lieve that the Peron government is "too closely allied with the
Communists." Peron's minister of interior and justice, Angel
Borlenghi, who is believed to have been the major instigator of
the current church-state conflict, has long been considered a
Communist by some high Argentine military leaders.
Plans for the revolt against Peron, ac-
cording to the naval refugees in Uruguay, were conceived in
February by high military officials, who by May believed they
had the full support of the navy and air force and 55 percent of
the army, as well as some police support. The plans, allegedly
supported by Catholic Action and the three major non-Communist
opposition parties, called for the establishment of a six-man junta
including representatives of the armed forces and of the Radical
and Socialist Parties.
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