CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A002400510001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 22, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

se 20QF61P!4-&ffP TOO
25X~
/~.00
00 r"
CURRENT
INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
.10
22 March 1956
Copy No.
DOCUMENT NO. 0 53
NO CHANGE IN CLASS 1$(
^ DECLASSIFIED
CLASS. CHANGED TO: TS S C
NEXT REVIEW DATE: . 010
AUTH: HR 70-2
DATE: -r-41 0 REVIEWER:
OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
State Department review completed
03
25X1
25X1
25X1
W,00 "/Z.0 se 20WR1SR6VPM9TO
 25X1 Approved For Release 2002/11/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO02400510001-8
Approved For Release 2002/11/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO02400510001-8
 25X1A
Approved For,-Q- lease 2002/11/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975J#02400510001-8
CONTENTS
1. DUTCH BITTER OVER US ATTITUDE ON INDONESIAN
25X1 A DISPUTE
FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2. USSR REPORTED OFFERING ETHIOPIA $150,000,000
25X1A
3. NEW LAOTIAN GOVERNMENT
PARTY FIRST SECRETARY
4. EDWARD OCHAB NAMED TO SUCCEED BIERUT AS POLISH
25X1A
25X1A
25X1A
25X1A
THE TAIWAN STRAIT
22 Mar 56 Current Intelligence Bulletin Page 2
25X1A
Approved For Releaso 2002/11/19 : CIA-RDP79T0097PA002400510001-8
 25X1A
Approved Fo4
1. DUTCH BITTER OVER US ATTITUDE ON
INDONESIAN DISPUTE
25X1A
mbassador Matthews reported on
19 March that he had never seen
he Dutch press so unanimously and
bitterly resentful of any country as
is of the United States at the pres-
ent time. Co- oreign Minister Luns informed Matthews
of his government's dismay at recent statements of Amer-
ican policy toward Indonesia, which, he said, had deeply
shocked the entire country. Public feeling is so strong
that the government may have to reappraise its NATO ties,..
25X1A
The Dutch are especially aroused by
25X1A
Washington's grant of economic aid to Indonesia, which
hey believe failed to consider the fact of Indonesia's uni-
lateral abrogation of the Round Table Agreements con-
cluded with The Hague in 1949 under UN auspices. Am-
bassador Matthews expects the recent American decision
not to deliver additional tanks to the Netherlands to worsen
relations.
While Dutch officials have long been
touchy on the US attitude toward their disputes with Indo-
nesia, they are now equally disturbed by what they con-
sider to be American failure to support other European
allies in Cyprus, the Middle East, and North Africa.
In view of the lessening of Western European
fear of war, anti-American sentiment may become an issue
in the June 1956 Dutch national. elections. While the Dutch
are unlikely to move to sever ties with NATO, they may be
more reluctant to support the United States on other issues
such as Chinese UN representation and expanding economic
relations with the Soviet bloc.
22 Mar 56 Current Intelligence Bulletin Page 3
Approved For - 00510001-8 I Release
 25X1A
2.5X1A
2. USSR REPORTED OFFERING ETHIOPIA $150,000,000
FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The Soviet Union has offered Ethiopia
economic aid amounting to $150,000,000,
25X1A
11 25X1
The offer reportedly 25X1
includes funds for a large dam, possibly on the Blue Nile, or
for hydroelectric and irrigation development in Eritrea, which
is now federated with Ethiopia. F_ I 25X1
Comment This is the first report of such a Soviet
offer. A Soviet approach at present would
be well timed in view of Ethiopia's resentment over the large
amount of foreign assistance offered Egypt for the Aswan High
Dam.
25X1
25X1
wou probably not accept outright such large-scale Soviet aid,
the government could be expected to make use of such an offer
in its relations with the West. (Concurred in by ORR)
While Ethiopia
22 Mar 56 Current Intelligence Bulletin Page 4
25X1A
Approved Fo Release 2002/11/19: CIA-RDP79T00975A0024
0510001-8
 25X1A
25X1A
25X1A
Approved For
3. NEW LAOTIAN GOVERNMENT
The new government in Laos under
Souvanna Phouma, which won over-
whelming approval of the 39-man
national assembly on 21 March, is a
broad coalition of the major political groups in Laos and
should prove stable. The new premier is strongly anti-
Communist, but is considered a less forceful personality
than former premier Katay.
The only assemblyman to vote in op-
position was Bong Souvannouvong, who is sympathetic to
the Pathet Lao and whose small party was excluded from
the cabinet. Although he is not expected to pose a serious
problem at the outset as an opposition leader, Bong's in-
fluence has been demonstrated by his leading role in block-
ing Katay's two attempts to form a cabinet.
There is strong pressure in the assem-
bly for a quick solution to the Pathet Lao issue, and the
new government will consider this problem its primary task.
Judging from Souvanna's recent attitude and that of Crown
Prince Savang, with whom he enjoys good working relations,
the new government will probably continue its predecessor's
tough policy- -including guerrilla warfare--and insist on
Pathet recognition of the royal government's authority over
Phong Saly and Sam Neua Provinces as a prerequisite to
the resumption of direct negotiations. I
25X1A
22 Mar 56 Current Intelligence Bulletin Page 5
Approved For r Pipasp - 510001-8
 25X1A
25X1A
Approved Fq'
4. EDWARD OCHAB NAMED TO SUCCEED BIERUT
AS POLISH PARTY FIRST SECRETARY
The appointment of Edward Ochab as
first secretary of the Polish United
Workers (Communist) Party main-
tains the pattern of collective leadership that has hereto-
fore operated in Poland. Ochab, like his predecessor
Bierut, will share leadership of the party with politburo
members Jakub Berman and Hilary Minc, who will con-
tinue as major sources of authority in the collective lead-
ership.
Ochab, who is 49 years old, was active
in the prewar Communist Party of Poland, having joined
the party in 1929 and risen to the central committee by 1938.
He spent the war years in the Soviet Union, and has been a
member of the politburo since 1949 and the secretariat since
1950. F I
25X1A
22 Mar 56 Current Intelligence Bulletin Page 6
Approved Fq
25X1A
0001-8
 25X1 Approved For Release 2002/11/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO02400510001-8
Approved For Release 2002/11/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO02400510001-8
 Approved F
BIWEEKLY SUMMARY
8-21 March 1956 25X1 A
THE TAIWAN STRAIT
Report of the.IAC Current Intelligence Group
for the Taiwan Strait Problem
1. There has been no significant naval, air or ground
activity during the period.
25X1A
25X1
4. There were few new developments in Peiping propa-
ganda relating to the Taiwan Strait during the past two weeks.
In its 11 March statement on the Geneva talks, Peiping's For-
eign Ministry repeated the charge previously made on 4 March
of US "occupation" of Taiwan and US "interference in the libera-
tion" of the coastal islands
5. In a conversation with the Netherlands charge in Pei-
ping, an assistant to Chou En-lai declared that Communist China
had deliberately fixed no time limit for US acceptance of the de-
mands made in the 4 March statement. This declaration was ap-
parently made with the intent that it be relayed to the US. The
charge received the impression that the Chinese Communists
were willing to continue the talks in Geneva.
22 Mar 56 25X1A Current Intelligence Bulletin
Page 8
25X1A
25X1A
Approved For RelIease 2002/11/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO02100510001-8
 25X1A
Am3roved For Rblease 2002/11/19 - CIA-RDP79T00975A002400510001-8
ACTIVE BASE FOR MILITARY & CIVILIAN AIR-
CRAFT. SOME BASES USED BY PISTON TYPES
MAYBE USABLE BY JETS
PRIMARY AIRFIELD
CONSIDERED MOST IMPORTANT IN
AREA WITH PREPARED RUNWAY
GENERALLY 5000 FEET OR LONGER.
1
Ii U P E H
HANKOW
SECONDARY AIRFIELD
AUXILIARY OR EMERGENCY BASES
OR FIELDS OF LESSER IMPORTANCE.
RUNWAYS GENERALLY LESS THAN
5000 FEET.
?` HUAINING t
O
L r_" 0HIU~
CHANGSHA
NANCHAN~
NG _
1 CHUHSIEN
L
Sp CHIENOU*
_''Nan g
m
0,00 `, Ningts
~ xXxXk 53,
FOOCHQW M
TS
S'
A
U
NANTAIGi~ 27,0
0 LUNGTIEN
F * FIEI1,5 NOT CONSIDERED CAPABLE
OF:,UPPORTING SUSTAINED OPER-
N- HUTAN
79,000
kYingtan - / ( x WENCHOW
?JUian
*NATIONALIST AIRFIELD
TAIPEI
* ILAN
 Approved For Release 2002/11/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO02400510001-8
25X1A
Chiangyin
1 M v,
~Meichou
Amoy
usu Quemoy
0 1OO (Chinmen)
> Quer~or i_~
W e itou
Peninsula
-e Bp
Taishan
ILI
Yinshan
Approved For Release 2002/11/19 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO02400510001-8
Paichuan Is
.Changlo !a(White Dogs)