CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/10/28

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03002340
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• Document Creation Date: September 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: October 28, 1955

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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CONTENTS
I. POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ADENAUERS ILLNESS
(page 3).
2.
(page 4),
3. RHEE ASKS DEFENSE CHIEFS FOR PLANS TO RECOVER
TERRITORY SOUTH OF 38TH PARALLEL (page 6).
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L POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ADENAUER'S ILLNESS
Comment on:
If the chancellor dies at this time, the
president would ask the Christian Democratic Party to
form a new government. In the struggle for the succession,
Finance Minister Schaeffer and Foreign Minister von
Brentano would be leading candidates.
Should Adenauer merely be prevented
from resuming full conduct of his office for several weeks
more, no grave impairment of the government's function-
ing would be likely. Since his is largely a personal gov-
ernment, a longer absence would probably have serious
consequences regarding such critical issues as the Saar,
rearmament legislation, and relations with the Soviet
Orbit,
At present, Adenauer's personal aide,
Hans Globke, is probably assuming a major role in the
daily decisions of the chancellery. Vice Chancellor
Bluecher's political influence is waning and presumably
does not permit him to speak with any real authority.
-Concurred in by OSI)
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3. RHEE ASKS DEFENSE CHIEFS FOR PLANS TO RECOVER
TERRITORY SOUTH OF 38TH PARALLEL
General Yi Hyong-kun, chairman of
the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff,
has told the American army attach�
that President Rhee recently held a
eeting of his top defense officials to
he Communist-held areas south of the
38th parallel be retaken by force. When advised that
such action was impracticable, Rhee stated "nothing is
impossible" and requested that plans be submitted to him
within a few days.
The attache comments that another
refusal by South Korean military leaders to support the
use of force may lead Rhee "to fabricate incidents to pro-
voke hostilities or replace the military leaders involved."
Comment Rhee has the capability to provoke
incidents with small unconventional
forces. His immediate interest, however, is probably
less in recovering the "lost territory" than in assuring
the continued presence of American troops, maintaining
the atmosphere of crisis which facilitates his exercise
of authority, and possibly distracting attention from the
dispute over taxation of foreigners.
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