CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/10/07

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• Publication Date: October 7, 1956

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CONTENTS
1. NASR REPORTEDLY ASKS USSR TO MODERATE ANTI-
US PROPAGANDA (page 3)0
2. JAPAN CONSIDERING CLOSE TIES WITH EGYPT
(page 4).
3. ICELANDIC FINANCE MINISTER SAYS NO SOVIET
ECONOMIC AID YET OFFERED (page 5).
4. TOP HUNGARIAN PARTY LEADERS TO VISIT BELGRADE
(page 6).
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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NASR REPORTEDLY ASKS USSR TO MODERATE
ANTI-US PROPAGANDA
President Nasr
requested that Soviet propaganda on the
West's position regarding Suez refrain from lumping the
United States with Great Britain and France. He also asked
the Soviet Union not to develop its own propaganda to the ex-
tent that Ezvot's true position becomes obscured.
Comment Soviet propaganda since 1 October
clearly indicate that the USSR has not acted up-
on Nasr's first request. A Moscow broadcast to the Near
East on 6 October said that the only thing the first session
of the Security Council proved was that Britain, France and
the United States are "far from adopting a constructive atti-
tude" and that "once again the illusion of those who thought
the United States was taking a special stand toward this ques-
tion has been pricked like a soap bubble."
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2. JAPAN CONSIDERING CLOSE TIES WITH EGYPT
the Japanese Foreign Min-
istry on relations with Egypt, cites the
buez problem as a major historical development in the in-
evitable emergence of Afro-Asia as a decisive force in
world affairs. Japan's course
must be to develop close friendship and co-operation with
Egypt in order to become a co-leader in promoting the
international position of Afro-Asian nations while acting
as a bridge between East and West.
Comment
Japanese are increasingly reluctant to displease Egypt
and the Arab bloc, only
firm support of the French position by the unitea States
would overcome growing Japanese reluctance to join the
Suez Canal Users' Association.
Japanese official thinking recently has
indicated increased consideration of a neutralist role for
Japan.
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3, ICELANDIC FINANCE MINISTER SAYS NO SOVIET
ECONOMIC AID YET OFFERED
The Icelandic minister of finance
categorically told the US embassy on
4 October that the USSR had not as yet
made any offer of economic assistance,
but that he "feared" such an offer would
be forthcoming if Iceland could not obtain loans elsewhere
for its economic development program. The American em-
bassy suspects that the reports of such Soviet offers have
been plants.
The embassy also sees some evidence
that the Icelandic Communists are not entirely sealed off
from foreign affairs, despite the Foreign Ministry's claims
to the contrary.
Comment The Icelandic government, with a view
to offsetting the loss of foreign ex-
change from a curtailment of activities at the Keflavik air
base, has been seeking foreign loans to underwrite the
government's ambitious economic development program,
which in itself is designed to offset the loss of the NATO
base. So far it has not met with any success.
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4� TOP HUNGARIAN PARTY LEADERS TO VISIT BELGRADE
Comment on:
Belgrade's announcement on 5 October--
the day Tito returned from a conference
with Soviet leaders in Yalta--that five of
the top-ranking Hungarian Communist leaders will pay an
official visit to Yugoslavia starting on 15 October suggests
that for the present there is to be no explosion in Soviet-
Yugoslav relations and no harsh crackdown on the Satellites.
Tito may have succeeded to some extent in convincing Soviet
leaders that de-Stalinization and "democratization" must not
be wiped out in the Satellites, and may have agreed to co-
operate with the USSR in holding the liberalization program
to a more controlled pace in Hungary and Poland.
The guidelines for the forthcoming talks
undoubtedly were laid down in conversations between Tito
and Hungarian party first secretary Gero in the Crimea, al-
though Gero reportedly requested an invitation two months
ago to send a high-level delegation to Yugoslavia. Gero's
trip as head of the delegation will serve the purpose of pay-
ing public homage to Tito, as did Hungary's ceremonial re-
interment on 6 October of Laszlo Rajk, the former Titoist
and "national deviationist." Besides its many efforts to over-
come obstacles in its relations with Yugoslavia, Hungary has
shown an inclination to adopt a more nationalistic domestic
policy and on more than one occasion its leaders have re-
ferred to the Yugoslav example as a highly commendable
pattern to follow.
The inclusion in the delegation of "mod-
erate" members of the Hungarian party may be designed to
prove to Tito that liberalization in Hungary is a reality and
need not include the further step of rehabilitating Imre Nagv,
as Yugoslavia has been urging.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 7 October)
The Israeli press reported that the Jor-
danian National Guard was reinforcing its positions along the
Israeli frontier near the place where five Israelis were killed
on Thursday and that apparently Jordan expected a "retaliatory"
raid by Israel. (Press)
The intelligence chief of the Jordan Arab
Army told the American military attach�hat during the night
following the latest ambush on Israeli civilians, there was heavy
troop movement in Israel's central and southern military com-
mands, particularly opposite the Jordanian police post at Safi,
as well as unusual air reconnaissance by the Israeli forces over
this post and Jerusalem. The Jordanian intelligence chief said
the Arab Army and its air force were on alert status in expecta-
tion of Israeli retaliation.
Iraqi prime minister Nun i Said outlined
to the American ambassador the present plans for sending Iraqi
troops and supplies into Jordan after learning from the ambassa-
dor that Israel would probably offer no difficulties if these move-
ments were limited in numbers and remained east of the Jordan
River. Nun i indicated that within ten days he hoped to begin mov-
ing supplies and guards, equipped with defensive weapons only,
into Jordan. The present plans call for one battalion of Iraqi
troops based in Iraq near the Jordanian border; one battalion
to be distributed as stationary guards at several stockpiling
points, including Mafraq, Jordan; and another force of battalion
strength to be used as a patrol moving between these points.
Nun i said he was also sending another thousand rifles and a half
million rounds of ammunition to Jordan in addition to the thou-
sand rifles and million rounds of AMMIltlitiOn already sent.
The chief of Palestinian affairs in Egypt's
Ministry of Defense told an American embassy official that
Israeli retaliatory raids were not primarily the result of specific
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border incidents but rather depended on external political
factors which the Israeli government and public opinion in-
correctly interpreted as having an impact on their security.
He said he feels the current tension on the Jordanian-Israeli
border is probably related to the Suez problem. The Egyp-
tian official said that Cairo definitely opposed referring the
latest Jordanian border incidents to the Security Council, as
this might give Israel an opportunity to introduce its views on
the Suez issue and thereby inject political issues into the nego-
tiations.
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