CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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17 April 1951
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
Little air activity on China's east coast revealed by US air
reconnaissance (page 4).
WESTERN EUROPE
Purge of Communists in Austrian police force to be dropped
temporarily (page 5).
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3. Little air activity on China
east coast revealed by US air reconnaissance:
Reconnaissance of the China coast -opposite
Taiwan. conducted by aircraft of the US Seventh
Fleet on 11 and 13 April revealed the airfield
at Amoy to be operational, while airfields at
Foochow and Swatow were non-operational. The field at Chien-ou (inland
about 100 miles northwest of Foochow) had been extended since August and
was in operational condition except for a rockpile in one turning circle.
No unusual shipping concentration was observed in any of the major harbors.
Anti-aircraft fire was encountered over Foochow, Amoy, and Swatow, but
none was encountered over Chien-ou.
Comment: Reports received earlier in the
year generally agreed that the Chinese Communists were engaged in
extensive airfield improvement and air activity, and in the construction
of coastal defenses along the southeast China coast. These reconnaissance
flights tend to support the claims that the Chinese have taken steps to im-
prove coastal defenses.
Chinese Communist broadcasts, heard in Tokyo
over the week-end, charged the US with violation of the China coast by
a flight of 200 aircraft. These charges probably refer to the above mentioned
reconnaissance flights.
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WESTERN EUROPE
5; Purge of Communists in Austrian police force to be dropped tempoorarily: ILLEGIB
expect further overt action at present against the Communists in the
Austrian police. According to Donnelly, Helmer appears particularly
worried about the Soviet refusal to accept the dismissals of Communist
police already ordered by the Austrian Government and claims that this
refusal may indicate a trend toward the establishment of a separate Soviet
zone police. As further evidence of Soviet "toughness," Helmer cited
(a) the Soviet reopening of the denazification issue, (b) the renewed cases
of abduction and (c) Soviet demands for the removal of two non-Communist
police officers in the Soviet zone, for the return to Vienna of a Communist
police chief who has been transferred to the provinces, and for the evacua-
tion of an Austrian gendarmerie school.
Austrian Interior Minister Helmer has in-
formed US High Commissioner Donnelly in
Vienna that, because of the current "tough"
Soviet attitude in Austria, Donnelly should not
Comte: At US instigation, the Austrian
Government began a drive in late March to purge the Austrian police of
Communists, beginning with the Vienna administrative police. The Soviet
authorities reacted vigorously by seizing the opportunity to bring counter-
charges. against loyal Austrian police and to demand their removal.
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Austrian capitulation on this issue will demoralize the police force and
result in a serious weakening of the Austrian will to resist further Soviet
demands.
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