CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/04/17

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02733115
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• Document Creation Date: March 18, 2019
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2019
• Publication Date: April 17, 1951

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
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1. Rau recommends new Indian approach to Peiping (page 3).
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Little air activity on China's east coast revealed by US air
reconnaissance (page 4).
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5. Purge of Communists in Austrian police force to be dropped
temporarily (page 5).
6. Communist plans for sabotage of Italian rearmament (page 6).
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1. Rau recommends new Indian approach to Peiping:
Sir Benegal Rau, chief of the Indian delegation
to the UN, has recommended to his government
that it instruct Indian Ambassador Panikkar in
Peiping to approach the Chinese Communist
foreign office, referring to recent events as serving to remove any Pei-
ping suspicions and urging Peiping to respond to the Entezam communi-
cation.
Comment A note from UN General Assembly
chairman Entezam to the Peiping regime, inviting Communist China
to negotiate with the UN Good Offices Commission, was dispatched on
15 February. There has been no reply to, or acknowledgment of, the
note. The Indian delegate apparently regards the removal of General
MacArthur as providing Peiping with a face-saving device and there-
fore as warranting another peace effort.
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3. Little air activity on China's east coast revealed b US air reconnaissance:
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Reconnaissance of the China coast-opposite
Taiwan conducted by aircraft of the US Seventh
Fleet on 11 and 13 April revealed the airfield
at Amoy to be operational, while airfields at
Foochow and Swatow were non-operational. The field at Chien-ou (inland
about 100 miles northwest of Foochow) had been extended since August and
was in operational condition except for a rockpile in one turning circle.
No unusual shipping concentration was observed in any of the major harbors.
Anti-aircraft fire was encountered over Foochow, Amoy, and Swatow, but
none was encountered over Chien-ou.
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Comment: Reports received earlier in the
year generally agreed that the Chinese Communists were engaged in
extensive airfield improvement and air activity, and in the construction
of coastal defenses along the southeast China coast. These reconnaissance
flights tend to support the claims that the Chinese have taken steps to im-
prove coastal defenses.
Chinese Communist broadcasts, heard in Tokyo
over the week-end, charged the US with violation of the China coast by
a flight of 200 aircraft. These charges probably refer to the above mentioned
reconnaissance flights.
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5. Purge of Communists in Austrian police force to be dropped temporarily:
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formed US High Commissioner Donnelly in
Vienna that, because of the current "tough"
Soviet attitude in Austria, Donnelly should not
expect further overt action at present against the Communists in the
Austrian police. According to Donnelly, Helmer appears particularly
worried about the Soviet refusal to accept the dismissals of Communist
police already ordered by the Austrian Government and claims that this
refusal may indicate a trend toward the establishment of a separate Soviet
zone police. As further evidence of Soviet "toughness," Helmer cited
(a) the Soviet reopening of the denazification issue, (b) the renewed cases
of abduction and (c) Soviet demands for the removal of two non-Communist
police officers in the Soviet zone, for the return to Vienna of a Communist
police chief who has been transferred to the provinces, and for the evacua-
tion of an Austrian gendarmerie school.
Comment: At US instigation, the Austrian
Government began a drive in late March to purge the Austrian police of
Communists, beginning with the Vienna administrative police. The Soviet
authorities reacted vigorously by seizing the opportunity to bring counter-
charges against loyal Austrian police and to demand their removal.
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Austrian capitulation on this issue will demoralize the police force and
result in a serious weakening of the Austrian will to resist further Soviet
demands.
6. Communist plans for sabotage of Italian rearmament:
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The Italian Communist Party reportedly has a three-
stage plan for the sabotage of Italian rearmament:
(1) large-scale strikes in war production plants,
ostensibly for economic motives in order to woo
public sympathy; (2) in the event that strikes fail, acts of sabotage scheduled
for April 19 51 in selected factories, particularly in the automotive field
and on the railroads, to be carried out by specialists selected and detached
from the Communist para-military forces; and (3) mobilization of the entire
para-military organization for sabotage and guerrilla action in the event of
a deterioration of the international situation to the point where a state of
emergency is declared and the government calls out large numbers of
reserves. Communist leaders are reportedly not optimistic over the success
of the strikes but believe that the working masses are ready for revolutionary
action to obtain satisLIction of their demands.
Comment: Since the government is capable at
this time of handling any internal insurrectionary activity, sabotage alone
appears to offer the Communists some chance of success, particularly in
the transportation field, where the Italian Communist Party controls the
great majority of workers.
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