CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/07/02

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2019
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2019
• Publication Date: July 2, 1957

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OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
CENTRAL INTIELLIGENCE AGENCY
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CONTENTS
A< 1. RESTRICTIONS ON FIRING GIVEN CHINESE NATIONALIST
(91 ARTILLERY ON QUEMOYS (page 3).
!fa 2. PEIPING TO TRAIN TIBETANS FOR PUBLIC SECURITY
DUTIES ) (page 4).
Or.) 3. FRANCE SEEN STEPPING UP TEMPO OF ALGERIAN
OPERATIONS (page 5).
h 4. FRENCH-TUNISIAN RELATIONS
(page 6).
(9/5 5. BURMA TO EXTEND CONTRACTS OF SOVIET AGRICUL-
TURAL TECHNICIANS (page 7).
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1. RESTRICTIONS ON FIRING GIVEN CHINESE
NATIONALIST ARTILLERY ON QUEMOYS
Comment on:
The Chinese Nationalist Ministry of
Defense has ordered artillery units
in the Quemoy area to cease all fire
unless "lucrative targets" appear.
merican o id- s comment that if the heavy Communist
firing of 24 June was for the purpose of discouraging indis-
criminate Nationalist firing at fishing boats, merchant ships,
and villages, it has apparently had this effect.
Artillery fire in the Quemoy area has
slackened. Since 27 June, Nationalist artillery has not fired
and the Communists have fired only afew rounds, most of
them propaganda leaflet shells.
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2. PEIPING TO TRAIN TIBETANS FOR PUBLIC
SECURITY DUTIES
Comment
The Tibetans presumably will
replace Chinese public security
personnel who a.re among the 25,000 or more troops and
civilian personnel Peiping intends to withdraw from Tibet.
Peiping probably expects that Tibetan
resentment of Communist rule will lessen with the increas-
ing use of Tibetans on police and security duties.
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3. 3 FRANCE SEEN STEPPING UP TEMPO OF
ALGERIAN OPERATIONS
The new French defense minister,
Andre Morice, reportedly is dis-
satisfied with General Raoul Salm,
the commanding general in Algeria,
and has implied that changes in command will be made
in the next two weeks. Meanwhile, he has issued orders
to General Paul Ely, army chief of staff, to push the war
vigorously in accordance with recent intentions of the
pacification policy. The minister believes that measures
to close the Moroccan border are 80 percent effective in
preventing arms shipments to the Algerian rebels, and he
has ordered that the Tunisian border be "hermetically"
sealed by September, according to a fairly reliable French
journalist who is a close friend of the minister.
The under secretary of state for the army,
who strongly supports early political reform for Algeria, be-
lieves that "pilot zones" should be created in whi
out reforms, according to the French journalist.
Comment The heavy support the French Socialist
Party has just voted for a continuation of
the strong policy in Algeria will encourage Bourges-Maunoury's
emphasis on pacification prior to a political settlement A new
drive has been begun to clear rebel influence from the moun-
tainous region north of Constantine so that a "pilot zone" can
be established to permit political reforms at the local level.
Bourges-Maunoury aim is to hold local electioro gild to work
out a new statute for Algeria which would permit some local
autonomy. The government has no intention, however, of re-
linquishing control over the area.
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4.. FRENCH- TUNLSIAN RELATIONS
Comment on:
he French decision last week to with
raw a substantial number of troops
rom Tunisia should contribute to the
etente which has been developing in
rench-Tunisian relations since mid-
une. Tunisian premier Bourghiba now
ay be willing to take stronger measures
gainst Algerian militants in Tunisia, and
if new incidents between the French and Tunisians can be
avoided, French credits may again become available to Tunis
in the near future.
Paris has decided to shift a division of
between 10,000 and 15,000 French troops to the Algerian side
of the Tunisian frontier and to regroup at the Bizerte base
and five other points the remainder of its 25,000 ground forces
in Tunisia, as well as 10,000 naval and air force personnel.
The American embassy in Tunis believes the movements con-
templated will reduce but not eliminate the danger of further
clashes between French troops and armed Tunisians. The
French action apparently falls considerably short of Bourghiba's
demand that all French forces in Tunisia be concentrated in the
Bizerte area--a condition which still must be met, he indicated
on 27 June, before he will enter into negotiations with France
for a common defense arrangement.
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5. BURMA TO EXTEND CONTRACTS OF SOVIET
AGRICULTURAL TECHNICIANS
The Burmese government decided in mid=
June to extend all Soviet agricultural tech-
nical assistance projects until 1960,
The
government has already extended for one year the contracts
of the 22 Soviet agricultural experts, which would have ex-
pired in November, and Soviet-developed agricultural projects
have been assigned top priority under Prime Minister Nu's re-
vised four-year plan.
Burma is reported highly pleased with the
over-all performance of Soviet technicians, as projects under
their supervision are moving satisfactorily.
Comment The Soviet agricultural team's main ef-
forts seem to be concentrated on the con -
struction of a complex of dams for irrigation of arid sections
of upper Burma. At least one of the projects in this program
has been judged impracticable by American engineers.
The completion of the Soviet program will
fulfill an important agricultural need in Burma, and will go far
toward making up for Burma's earlier dissatisfaction over its
barter trade with the USSR. In addition, the Soviets seem to
have made a good impression with some of their other projects,
notably the technological institute which they will soon complete
in Rangoon.
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