CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A000500230001-0
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 10, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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DOS review(s) completed.
DIA review(s) completed.
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FAR EAST
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terim replacements for De Lattre named age 3).
SOUTH ASIA
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3. Comment on Kashmir efforts to throw:... off Indian domination (page 4).
NEAR EAST -AFRICA
EASTERN :EUROPE
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7. US Ambassador in Warsaw foresees new restrictions on American
missions (page 7).
WESTERN EUROPE
8. Adenauer wants clarification of German defense contribution. (page- 7).
9. American Ambassador urges early negotiations with. Spain (page 8).
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2. Interim replacements for De Lattre named:
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same time Governor-General Gautier, De Lattre's chief civil aide, was
named Acting High Commissioners. De Lattre will probably need several
months to recover from a recent operat'pion.
The US Military Attache in Hanoi has. been in-
formed that General Salan, General de Lattre.'-s
deputy, ba.s been appointed Commander-in-
Chief, "pending de Lattre's return. " At the
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 Comment: General de Lattre has recently
undergone a second operation wh ~~ was apparently more serious than earlier
reports $u~gestet~ Recent reports indicate that the. general will not be willing
to reassume his command because of disillusionment with the stalemate in
Indochina as well as for reasons of health.
SOUTH ASIA.
3. Comment on Kashmir efforts to throw off Indian domination:
Kashmir's National Conference Party, lecl by
Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah, has taken another step toward complete
autonomy for Indian-held Kashmir. It has passed a resolution claiming for
the new Kashmiri Legislature the right to participate in foreign .affairs and
defense matters, heretofore recognized by the Kashmiris as the exclusive
prerogative of. the Government of India.
The Indian Government, possibly under-
estimating .the Kashmiris' desire for autonomy, countenanced earlier steps
which.included the decision to establish a Kashmiri Constituent Assembly,
the rigged elections of last October which placed members of the National
Conference in every seat of the Assembly, and the November amendment of
the state constitution to convert the Assembly into a Legislature with
supreme authority over all matters except foreign affairs, defense, and
communications.
A high. Indian official recently admitted that his
government has had difficulties in dealing with the Kashmiris, who were in-
clined to be "unreasonable and stubbarn. " The current Kashmiri maneuver
challenges India`s most jealously guarded rights in .the state, and it may
lead Sheikh Abdullah into open conflict with India.
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7, US Ambassador in Warsaw foresees new restrictions on American missions:
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American Ambassador Flack in Warsaw ~mnaent~
that the rapid trial in Poland of five
alleged US spies suggests a possible build-up to
justify increasing restrictions on tmerican
missfons in Eastern Europeo
The Ambassador points out it is possible that an
anti-American build-up, at Soviet instigation, is being deliberately carried
to a point likely to provoke US withdrawal of one oar more missions in Eastern
:Europeo The Ambassador states that his analysis is consistent with recent
Satellite notes and propaganda portraying US missions as espionage agencies
which do not perform legitimate diplomatic functions,
Commento The charges against the Polish
defendants did not specify that ey had Contacts with the US Embassy in
Warsaw, but alleged that theywer~erecruited in Germany by US intelligence
officers. The recent notes,. while attacking fot~mer members of US missions
in Eastern Europe, did not mention any current members. So far there have
been no indications that the USSR or the Satellites no longer desire to main-
tain .diplomatic missions in the Westa
WESTERN EUROPE
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American negotiators, meeting with Federal
Republic representatives on the German finan-
vial contribution to Western defense, feel that
Chancellor Adenauer is "dragging his feet" in
these discussions. He is now insisting that German experts be sent before
the NATO Temporary Council Committee to redetermine the amount of the
German defense contribution, 13e argues that the Bonn Parliament will not
approve these,'negotiationsunless it appQars that the body which fixed other
NATO- nations' contributions also fix the German Contribution in the same
manners
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8a Adenau,er .wants clarification of German defense contributiono
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Comment: No German represehtatit~es were
present when the Committee fixed the size of the German contribution.
Adenauer's demand for new Committee hearings reflects his feeling that a
German defense contribution fixed by the Allies alone resembles occupation
costs.
Allied representatives have reasonable hope
that agreement will be reached on the annexed conventions to the Contractual
Agreement -- with the. possible exception of this issue -- before the next
NATO conference.
9, American Ambassador urges early-negotiations with Spai~no
The American Ambassador in Madrid urges that
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usually pro-US atmosphere in: Spain by sending
teams to negotiate military and economic aid
agreements.
The Ambassador feels that a highly cordial atti-
tude on the part of the Spanish Government has been created by recent press
statements of two American officials regarding the results of the survey of
the Spanish economy recently completed. by a special US mission. In his
opinion, these. statements show that American ingest in improving -the
Spanish economy and popular living standards is quite separate froth political
considerations.
Comment: The Spanish Government,...
through the: controlled press, is apparently trying to create the impression
that negotiation.of an economic agreement will begin at-any moment,
regardless of military considerations, and that every sector of the Spanish
economy wilt reneive considerable immediate aid. This tactic reflects the
overwhelming political importance which the regime attaches to American
aid.
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