CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A001900340001-3
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 24, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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24 February 1955
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. Plans for Soviet industrial fair in Buenos Aires reported (page 3).
SOVIET UNION
2. Saburov fails to appear with other party presidium members (page 3)a
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LATE ITEM
6. Chinese Nationalist infantry regiment withdrawing from Nanchishan
(page 9).
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GENERAL
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Plans for Soviet industrial fair in Buenos Aires reported:
Sources close to the Soviet embassy in
Buenos Aires report that plans are un-
der way for a large Soviet industrial
broadcast. The USSR expects to display a wide variety of in-
dustrial products. Several shipments of machinery have already
arrived.
exposition }n Buenos Aires in April, according to an Argentine
Comment:
the No vie e pave ion from the 1954 Izmir
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international Trade it had been crated for shipment to Buenos
Aires.
If this exposition takes place it will be
the first Soviet fair in the western. hemisphere since World War I I,
and may presage an intensification of Soviet trade activities in
Latin America.
The fair would be a follow-up of the
USSR's offers, made at the UN last April and repeated later, to
sell essential. Imports to dollar-short Latin American. countries
on credit terms, with payment in local currencies.
The USSR resumed commercial. rela-
tions with Latin America in August 1953. By June 1954 total trade
with Argentina had reached $78,568,000, and with Uruguay, $16,020,000.
Only $7;980, 000 of this represented Soviet exports, all of which were
to Argentina.
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SOVIET UNION
2. Saburov fails to appear with other party presidium members:
The chairman of the Soviet State Planning
Committee, M. Z. Saburov, was the only
member of the party presidium who failed
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to attend a 21 February concert given by
Belorussian artists. The "sudden" invi-
tation to Western ambassadors to attend
suggested to one diplomat that they had been invited in order to see
who was present. Saburov last appeared with the other- presidium
members at a similar Belorussian festival on 11 February. He was
absent from a 14 February reception at the Chinese embassy, as
were Voroshilov and Khrushchev, who was in th@ Ukraine.
Saburov's absence on such occasions is
not unprecedented and could be due to illness or absence from
Moscow, However, similar absences were the first sign of Beria's
and Bagirov's removal from the presidium in June 1953.
Saburov has long been associated with the
economic planning apparatus, which has come under severe criti-
cism from Khrushchev and other SoViet figures in the past year,
and his career suggests that he owed much of his success to Malen-
kov's patronage. Should Saburov be removed from the presidium,
it would be striking evidence of the seriousness of the personal and
policy differences within that body.
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25X1M Chinese Nationalist infantry regiment withdrawing from Nanchishana
MAAG officials in Formosa report that
the 2,80[1 Chinese Nationalist regular
troops on Nanchishan were to begin with-
drawing to Formosa on the afternoon of
24 February (0400, 24 February, Washington time). Two LST's
and an LSM were to be used to transport the troops, They were to
be escorted by a destroyer, four destroyer-escorts, and six other
vessels. The Nationalist air force was to provide air cover for
the operation, which is expected to be completed in 13 hours
Comment: With Nationalist air and naval
forces engaging in operations .ose to the China mainland, it is
possible that the Communists will attempt to interfere during the
withdrawal.
Following the evacuation of the Tachens,
the Nationalists were rumored planning to withdraw all regulars
from Nanchishan, and to increase the guerrilla garrison from about
700 to 5,000 or 6,000, using guerrilla troops evacuated from the
Tachens.
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