CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: May 9, 1956
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9 May 1956
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1. YUGOSLAVIA OPPOSES EXPANSION OF US MILITARY
AID STAFF
50 POLES REPORTEDLY TO 13LAME KATYN MASSACRE ON
STALIN
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6. USSR ENDORSES PROPOSAL FOR POLITICAL SETTLEMENT
IN LAOS
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1. YUGOSLAVIA OPPOSES EXPANSION OF US MILITARY
AID STAFF
Yugoslav acting foreign secretary Prica
told Ambassador Riddleberger on 5 May
that his government at this time opposes
any increase in the American Military
Assistance a (AMAS) and the reopening of US-Yugoslav
talks on future military aid.
In reply to Riddleberger's complaints
over the difficulties to date in implementing the agreement
reached last October between Deputy Under Secretary of
State Murphy and Tito, Prica said that his government felt
that the world situation has changed considerably. An en-
largement of AMAS at this time, he said,would be tanta-
mount to an undesirable "political manifestation" and con-
trary to Belgrade's policy of propagandizing nonmilitary
co-operation.
Prica said that his government had not
lost interest in military aid, but indicated that nothing could
be done before Tito returned from his visit to Moscow in
June.
Riddleberger concludes from his interview
that the Yugoslavs are now willing to risk not honoring the
October agreement in hopes that the United States will none-
theless complete the present military aid program,
Comment The Yugoslavs probably feel that the ques-
tion of American military aid will be raised
in Moscow and new activity now would prove embarassing to
Tito's course of "detachment and active coexistence:' Belgrade,
however, has always been reluctant to permit Western activi-
ties to expand in Yugoslavia, particularly in the military sphere.
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5. POLES REPORTEDLY TO BLAME KATYN MASSACRE
ON STALIN
not aiding the 1944 Warsaw uprising, according to the
American embassy in Warsaw
ssibility of blaming Stalin for the Katyn
Forest massacre of 10,000 Polish officers in 194.1 and for
A Polish journalist recently told a
visiting American correspondent
that high officials of the Polish United
Workers (Communist) Party are con-
The embassy also stated that
is presently investigating the Katyn massacre; the "result"
reportedly will be that Stalin and former Polish first secre-
tary Bierut will be blamed for the crime.
I a joint Soviet-Polish commission
Comment An admission that the USSR rather than
Germany was responsible for the Katyn
massacre probably would intensify Polish hatred of the
Soviet Union. The present Polish regime may feel that in
the long run, however, such an admission would convince the
people that a real break has been made with the past.
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of Laos has reiterated to the American charge his con-
cern over Viet Minh strength in the disputed provinces and
requested a "firm" guarantee of Western military support
in the event of "outside" aggression. The charge comments
that the prince may feel the only alternative is for Laos to
turn toward neutralism.
6. USSR ENDORSES PROPOSAL FOR POLITICAL
SETTLEMENT IN LAOS
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Comment Gromyko's statement serves to put the
Soviet Union on record in support of
demands for negotiations advanced by Peiping, Hanoi -and
the Pathet Lao. The Communists have intimated that they
would accept the Laotian government's sovereignty over the
disputed provinces in return for a pledge of strict neutrality.
Although the Laotian government is con-
ducting a. fairly successful guerrilla war of attrition against
the Pathet Lao, it is under internal pressure to seek a polit-
ical settlement. In addition, F__ I
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The American embassy in London
reports that Andrei Gromyko has
criticized the Laotian government's
use of force against the Pathet Lao
and said that the Geneva co-chairmen
should summon both parties to nego-
tiate a political settlement in conform-
ance with the 1954 armistice agreement.
Meanwhile, the influential crown prince
India is exerting strong pressure on Vien-
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