CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/06/14

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03189006
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: June 14, 1955

Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03189006
TOP SECRET
17.ff/
14 June 1955
Copy No. 99
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
NO CHANGE IN CLASS.
DOCUMENT NO ---/??
El DECLASSIFIED
CLASS, CHANGED TO: IS S C
NEXT REVIEW DATE � "����� /
AUTH: HR. 70-2
DATE: CV/th..a._. REVIEWER; _
Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
3.3(h)(2)
3.5(c)
Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03189006
Approved for Release: 20119/09/17 C03189006
Sloe Niue
SUMMARY
SOUTHEAST ASIA.
1. Burma plans to send consuls general to North and South Vietnam
(page 3).
SOUTH ASIA
2. Afghan-Pakistani mediation efforts now deadlocked (page 3).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
3. French authorities to use force to break Moroccan strike (page 4).
4, Greek foreign minister hopes for visit from Burmese and Indian
prime ministers (page 4).
LATIN AMERICA
5. Comment on Argentine church-state tension (page 5).
14 June 55 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 2
TOP SECRET
Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03189006
Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03189006
�-� I L. �
Same
SOUTHEAST ASIA
1. Burma plans to send consuls general to North and South Vietnam:
Comment: Burma has recognized Laos
and Cambodia, but takes the position that recognition of Vietnam
should await unification of the country through the elections called
for by the Geneva agreement.
Most Burmese leaders appear convinced
that the Viet Minh will ultimately control all of Vietnam.
SOUTH ASIA
2. Afghan-Pakistani mediation efforts now deadlocked:
Ambassador Hildreth in Karachi reports
that letters between Pakistan and the
Saudi Arabian mediator indicate a dead-
lock has been reached in attempts to
mediate the Afghan-Pakistani dispute.
At the same time, an official of the Amer-
ican Morrison-Knudsen construction company has informed the
14 June 55 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 3
TOP gFeRFT
Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03189006
Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03189006
vase
ambassador that Pakistan's economic blockade will shortly force
termination of his company's operations in Afghanistan,
Comment: Having already agreed to
mediation, Pakistan would be unwilling to make any further con-
cessions that would display weakness and encourage Afghanistan
to retain Daud as Afghan prime minister. Pakistan probably also
assumes that most of the five mediating Moslem powers would sup
port it against Afghanistan in forcing a showdown.
Kabul is already faced with an acute
shortage of vital imports and with restlessness among mobilized
troops� Even if the Daud government wished to rearrange Afghan
trade patterns by turning to the Soviet Union, it probably could not
do so in time to strengthen its hand for the next stage of bargaining.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
3. French authorities to use force to break Moroccan strike:
genera in
12 June.
French authorities plan to use force to re-
open native Moroccan shops--closed in
response to a nationalist strike order--on
15 June, according to the American consul
ounted troops were being moved into Rabat on
The consul general considered an introduc-
tion of troops into native quarters at this time an unwise measure.
Comment: The forcible opening of native
shops might set off widespread violence. Tension has been very
high since the authorities expelled some 67 Moroccan shopkeepers
from Casablanca on 25 May for resistance to an order to open their
stores.
4. Greek foreign minister hopes for visit from Burmese and Indian
prime ministers:
14 June 55
Greek foreign minister Stephanopoulos
is interested in having Burmese prime
minister U Nu and Indian prime minister
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 4
TOP SPCRFT
Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03189006
Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C031189006
NJ A XL-, I
'tire
Nehru visit Greece after they leave Belgrade,
Comment, International events have
created an attitude in some Greek government circles which may
be receptive to the neutralist ideas of U Nu and Nehru. Greek
frustrations are increasing over the reduction of American aid,
support of other NATO countries for Britain's position on the
Cyprus issue, and the economic difficulties attributed to the
support of armed forces it levels established by the NATO com-
mand.
No Greek government is likely to abandon
its Western orientation in the near future, but pressures are grow-
ing for independent action.
�
LATIN AMERICA
5. Comment on Argentine church-state tension:
Political tension has reached its highest
itch in Argentina since the church-state
ispute broke out last November. High
eeling has been intensified by a church
sio on une despite a government ban, and by numer-
ous arrests growing out of clashes between rival groups on 12 June.
Though the procession followed a religious ceremony, it was in fact
a strong protest against recent measures to reduce the church's polit-
ical power and reflected increasingly active Catholic resistance to
such moves.
Since Congress convened on 1 May it has
abolished compulsory Catholic education, financial subsidies to the
church, and tax exemption for church properties. On 20 May it
enacted legislation calling for convening of a constituent assembly
within 180 days to consider revising the constitution to separate
church and state.
The principal impetus for President Peron's
campaign against a former ally has apparently been his belief that
opposition elements were working through various members of the
clergy to organize a Christian Democratic movement to overthrow
14 June 55 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 5
TOP sFrrirT
Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03189006
Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03189006
�.." 4 la IA. 1-d
Ngaile Ifte
his regime. Moreover, he has resented the political activity of
Catholic Action among student groups, which largely oppose his
regime's efforts to indoctrinate the future electorate.
The week-end events and mounting ten-
sions have given opposition elements�especially the Radicals and
Communists, who have offered to support pro-church demonstra-
tions�their best vehicle to date for building up anti-Peron senti-
ment and fomenting more serious incidents of violence, They also
serve to create division among the Peronistas,
14 June 55 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 6
-TOP-SEC-4FX
Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03189006