CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/09/08

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2019
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2019
• Publication Date: September 8, 1957

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CONTENTS
1. OPPOSITION TO BATISTA BREAKS OUT IN CUBAN ARMED
FORCES (page 3).
2. VIOLENCE BY TURKISH CYPRIOTS FEARED
(page 5).
3. BOURGES-MAUNOURY GOVERNMENT FACES INCREASED
OPPOSITION (page 6).
4. SOVIET LECTURER CLAIMS AGREEMENTS REACHED AT
TITO-KHRUSHCHEV MEETING (page 7).
5. MEETING OF SOVIET PARTY AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
POSTPONED (page 8).
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KUWAIT (page 9)0
ANNEX--Conclusions of the Watch Report of the Intelligence
Advisory Committee
(page 10).
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I. OPPOSITION TO BATISTA BREAKS OUT IN CUBAN
ARMED FORCES
Comment on:
Revolt against the Batista government
spread into the armed forces early on
5 September when the naval garrison at
the south coast port of Cienfuegos at-
tacked police and army posts. The at-
tackers were said to be distributing arms
to the many Fidel Castro sympathizers in
the city. Government troops were reported
to be moving on Cienfuegos and other pos-
sible centers of revolt,and the navy in
Havana was put on alert status. Fidel Cas-
tro's headquarters in the Sierra Maestra
is at the eastern end of the island.
The Cienfuegos outbreak may have been
meant to coincide with an attack on the government report-
edly planned for 5 September by military and civilian revolu-
tionary groups in Havana but postponed at the last minute.
According to several sources, the plan included use of the
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naval air base at Mariel by air force and navy planes flown by
revolutionary officers.
Disaffection is evidently spreading within the
armed forces. According to embassy information, many offi-
cers are convinced Batista cannot last much longer and are anx-
ious to get on the revolutionary bandwagon. However, Batista
has been able to put down many recent attempts to oust him be-
cause the plotters have been handicapped by lack of oraaniza-
ton, cooperation, and security.
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2. VIOLENCE BY TURKISH CYPRIOTS FEARED
The discovery by police of unexploded
bombs and bags of gunpowder following
an explosion in the home of a Turkish
Cypriot on 31 August is causing fear of
new violence on Cyprus, according to the American consul in
Nicosia. The explosion resulted in the death of one Turkish
Cypriot and injury to three others. According to security
forces, those involved are leading members of a new Turkish
organization, the "Ninth September Front!' The explosives
found on 31 August were reportedly intended for use against
Greek Cypriots on 9 September, a Turkish Cypriot holiday.
British authorities on Cyprus believe ex-
tremists among the Turkish Cypriots are willing to force a breach
between the Turkish and Greek communities on Cyprus in an
effort to justify the Turkish demand for partition of the island.
In preparation for possible violence on 9 September, the Brit-
ish have rearmed the police and doubled the number on duty.
Comment This report indicates that the Turkish
minority on Cyprus, 18 percent of the total
population, may be planning to assume a far more active and
violent role in Cypriot affairs than in the past in an attempt to
influence the disposition of the Cyprus problem. British secu-
rity forces are probably capable of coping with any large-scale
program of violence but will be unable to prevent isolated acts
of terrorism.
Greek officials have charged that a Turkish
terrorist organization is being created on Cyprus and that arms
and military personnel are being dispatched from Turkey. The
British have recently warned Turkish Cypriot leaders against
adopting the tactics of EOKA. the Greek Cypriot underground
organization.
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3. BOURGES-MAUNOURY GOVERNMENT FACES
INCREASED OPPOSITION
Comment on:
Widespread popular opposition to French
Premier Bourges-Maunoury's anti-
inflation program, coupled with deep-
seated conservative resistance to the
proposed basic statute for Algeria, suggests that his cab-
inet may not long survive the return of the National Assembly
from its summer recess. He has called a special session of
the National Assembly for later this month, seeking quick ap-
proval for his proposed Algerian statute before any debate of
the issue in the UN General Assembly. The National Assem-
bly had not been scheduled to return until 1 October.
Farmers demonstrated against the new price
ceilings on 1 September, and strikes planned by bakers and
farmers for 15 September may force the government to take
strong measures to maintain order. In the meantime, the Com-
munists are championing labor's demands for wage increases,
and there are indications that free labor unions feel they will
have to go along to hold their following. Finance Minister
Gaillard's earlier insistence on budget cuts makes it appear
unlikely that he will compromise on wages and prices. Right-
wing parliamentary groups, disliking the proposed Algerian
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statute, may use the broader economic issues as a means o
scuttling the government.
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4. SOVIET LECTURER CLAIMS AGREEMENTS REACHED
AT TITO-KHRUSHCHEV MEETING
In a public lecture at Gorki on 2 Septem-
ber, the Soviet speaker described the
recent meeting of Tito and Khrushchev
in Rumania as of great significance.
He claimed that Yugoslav leaders had
made five major declarations in a "still unpublished" docu-
ment. According to the speaker, the Yugoslays "fully with-
drew" from their position on events in Hungary, stated that
Yugoslav experience in building socialism had no greater value
than Soviet, Chinese or other socialist experience, and agreed
that closer contacts between Communist parties and an organ-
ized center for such contacts were necessary. They also ac-
cepted the Warsaw pact under present circumstances and stated
their intention to recognize East Germany "in the near future."
The embassy believes that the Tito-Khru-
shchev meeting may have resulted in unpublished statements of
positions on these issues, but assumes that the speaker's state-
ments are a Soviet interpretation.
Comment The failure of the two participants to issue
a formal communique at the conclusion of
the meeting suggests that their basic differences were not re-
solved. There have been no recent signs that Yugoslavia is
about to recognize the East German government, an action which
would jeopardize Yugoslavia's favorable trading arrangements
with West Germany.
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5. MEETING OF SOVIET PARTY AND GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS POSTPONED
A meeting of oblast party secretaries
and sovna,rkhoz chairmen has been "in-
definitely postponed without reason,"
although all the participants are already
in Moscow for the event.
about 500 officials were in Moscow for a meeting
to be held two days later to discuss the USSR's 1958 economic
plan.
Comment The sudden postponement may indicate
reconsideration of policy or dissension
at high levels over basic problems--including the industrial
reorganization, the Sixth Five-Year Plan, and the impact of
the agricultural and housing programs on the economy. It
might also mean that a plenum of the party central committee
had been called to deal with these issues.
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6. EGYPT FACILITATES MOVEMENT OF COMMUNISTS
TO KUWAIT
Seven Palestinian Arabs, blacklisted as
Communists by the Egyptian police, have
been granted permission by the Egyptian
authorities in the Gaza strip to travel to
the oil-rich Persian Gulf sheikdom of
Kuwait. At least three of the Communists are among sev-
eral hundred Arabs hired in Egypt by the Kuwaiti government
as teachers. The Communists were to transit Egypt under
police escort or surveillance.
Communist party activity in Kuwait, ma-
jor source of Britain's oil, was set back in late spring of 1956
by a series of arrests of Kuwaiti Communist leaders, carried
out somewhat reluctantly by Kuwaiti authorities under British
prodding. The Kuwaiti Communist movement has been dom-
inated by Iraqi and Palestinian Arabs, who comprise nearly half
of the sheikdom's 200,000-man population. Kuwait's oil produc-
tion, and its proved reserves, conservatively estimated at 50
billion barrels, are the largest of any country in the Middle East.
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ANNEX
Watch Report 370, 5 September 1957
of the
Intelligence Advisory Committee
Conclusions on Indications of Hostilities
On the basis of findings by its Watch Committee, the Intel-
ligence Advisory Committee concludes that:
A. No Sino-Soviet bloc country intends to initiate hostilities
against the continental US or its possessions in the imme-
diate future.
B. No Sino-Soviet bloc country intends to initiate hostilities
against US forces abroad, US allies, or areas peripheral to
the orbit in the immediate future.
C. Although the deliberate initiation of hostilities in the Middle
East in the immediate future is unlikely, tensions stemming
from recent developments in Syria and unstable conditions in
the area continue to create possibilities for conflict.
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