CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2003
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• Publication Date: February 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
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NEAR EAST ?- AFRICA
3. Mossadeq
oil disput
4, Mossadeq
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continue
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5. Pakistani
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Foreign
Minister worried over delay in Su
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8. Tougher Y
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attitude toward Satellites reported
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10. Dutch and
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roversy
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3. Mossadeq apparently abandons hope for US aid in Anglo-Iranian oil
dispute:
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as the two countries were compelled to cooperate "for global reasons.
Prime Minister Mossadeq told the Indian
Ambassador in Tehran on 23 February that
he could not particularly blame the United
States for backing Britain in the oil dispute
The Indian Ambassador also informed Ambas-
sador Henderson that Mossadeq's attitude. indicated that the Prime
Minister would reject the latest proposals for settling the oil dispute
or possibly make counterproposals.
Comment: Iranian tactics in the oil dispute
have been based on the hope of getting the United States to persuade
Britain to settle on terms favorable to Iran. Mossadeq's statement
appears to indicate that for the present at least he has abandoned this
hope.
4. Mossadeq continues to strengthen his position:
The Tehran Police Chief has confirmed the
arrest of retired General Zahedi for ."anti-
government activity," the American Embassy
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reported on 25 February, Unconfirmed rumors state that others,
including former Prime Minister All Mansur and General Hejazi,
a senator, have also been arrested.
Comment: Zahedi has often been men-
tioned as a possible successor to Mossadeq. He and Hejazi were
under arrest briefly last September for implication in a plot to
overthrow Mossadeq.
These arrests, following the Shah's
virtual capitulation to Mossadeq, are probably designed to demon-
strate that the Prime Minister's control of the government is fully
restored.
5. Pakistani Foreign Minister worried over delay in Suez talks:
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airo is concerned over
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Khan, now ,
the "stiffened attitude" of the British
toward the forthcoming Suez Canal base
talks, according to m assador Caffery. Zafrullah Khan believes
that Britain's delay in beginning negotiations is losing the good will
created by the recent Sudan agreement.
Comment: Zafrullah Khan's concern in
the matter may reflect his fear that delay in achieving an Anglo-
Egyptian agreement on the Suez base issue will further postpone
discussion of MEDO, which Pakistan wishes to join.
The impatience of Egypt to begin Suez'
discussions with the British has been confirmed not only by state-
ments of the army leaders but also by a recent warning from the
pro-West Egyptian Foreign Minister on the dangers inherent in
delay.
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7s Comment on Greek-Turkish-Yugoslav treaty.,
The Greek- Turkish- Yugoslav Treaty of
Friendship and Cooperation initialed on 25 February provides a
framework for common action in the event of unprovoked aggres-
sion and for continued examination of common security problems.
Ambassador Peurifoy in Athens reported
on 23 February that the Greek Foreign Minister had assured him
that all "contingent military plans" would be coordinated with the
United States prior to their approval by the contracting parties.
Peurifoy commented that American objections to specific military
commitments in the original draft had been met,
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8. Tougher Yugoslav attitude toward Satellites reported by. French
mbassador:
According to the French Foreign Ministry,
its Ambassador in Belgrade believes that
Yugoslavia has adopted an increasingly "tough
and truculent" attitude toward its Satellite
neighbors and may be considering some adventure against Albania.
The Ambassador commented that this
pattern of behavior seemed to be based on a feeling of greater
security resulting from Yugoslavia's increasingly close connections
with the West, and on the assumption that in the event of Soviet
aggression Western support will be automatic.
Comment: While Yugoslavia is engaged
in covert operations in Albania and with certain Albanian refugees,
there is no firm evidence that it plans any overt moves against
Albania at this time.
Yugoslavia's already bad relations with
its Satellite neighbors have become more strained during the past
few months. Contrary to the French Ambassador's estimate, how-
ever, Yugoslavia's desire for alliances with NATO powers and its
attacks against alleged Italian efforts to isolate it demonstrate a
feeling of insecurity,
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10. Dutch and Belgians to grant Czech requests for landing rights in
mid-March:
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Belgium and. the Netherlands have decided
to grant landing rights to the Czech airline
in mid-March, The Dutch Foreign Ministry
states that if France rejects the Czech re-
quests to use Paris as the terminus, as
seems likely, the airline could designate
Brussels instead.
Comment. In late 1951 Czechoslovakia
made its initial proposal for a circuitous Prague-Paris route, via
Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Brussels, largely in order to circum-
vent the ban on Czech overflights of West Germany. Denmark has
already approved the requests
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Although Belgium and the Netherlands
postponed granting the Czechs landing rights, they had indicated
to American officials that they could not legally refuse the requests,
LATIN AMERICA
11. Chile and Argentina may bring Deception Island controversy
before UART
Chile has formally demanded that Britain
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Island which it recently dismantled, The
Chilean Government said that it was con-
sidering submitting these "violations of
American security" to the Organization
of American States under the 1947 Rio de
Janeiro Treaty.
A similar statement by the Argentine Foreign
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lished in Buenos Aires on 23 February,
Comment.- Deception Island is in the South
Shetland group in the Antarctic area where British, Argentine, and
Chilean territorial claims overlap. It is included in the region covered
by the Rio de Janeiro Treaty, which states that an "attack by any state
against an American state shall be considered as an attack against
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