CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/10/21

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02970158
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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: October 21, 1953

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1. Investigations contradict Ben Gurion statement on frontier
incident (page 3).
2. Israeli foreign minister blames US for Arab-Israeli tension
(page 3).
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Italian chief of staff fears Yugoslav attack (page 4).
Pressure increases within French cabinet for five-power
talks on Indochina (page 4).
6. Bidault to force integration issue in French Assembly (page 5).
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. Investigations contradict Ben Gurion statement on frontier
incident:
Prime Minister Ben Gurion's categorical
denial that Israe i military forces were involved in the 14 October
raid on the Jordanian village is contradicted by the investigations of
the American consulate general in Jerusalem and the embassy in
Tel Aviv. The UN Mixed Armistice Commission, after conducting
its own investigation, formally charged that the raid was carried
out by the Israeli regular army.
Under these circumstances, Israel's
alacrity in agreeing to present its case before the United Nations
suggests that the raid may have been a deliberate attempt to force
UN consideration of Arab-Israeli difficulties. In any event, the
Israeli armed forces are considered capable of handling any armed
Arab retaliation.
2. Israeli foreign minister blames US for Arab-Israeli tension:
The Israeli foreign minister told the US
charge in Tel Aviv that "American ap-
peasement of the Arabs" has been a factor
in producing the current Arab-Israeli
tenMii1ithtOfpOucy, according to the minister, "encourages
Arab appetites and makes it doubly unnecessary for them to come to
agreement with Israel."
Another Foreign Ministry spokesman
declared that US policy has created in the Israeli population a
"disastrous" feeling of isolation.and lack of friendship.
Comment: Despite such expressions
of bitterness, Israel's dependence on Western economic aid pre-
vents adoption of a neutralist or pro-Soviet policy.
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4. Italian chief of staff fears Yugoslav attack:
The Italian armed forces chief of staff
states that Yugoslavia's military build-
up may lead to an attack on Italy at any
moment. He told the American army
attache in Rome that the Italian army
could'n[�th�intier area at present.
The army attache comments that this
is the first time in the present crisis that a responsible Italian
military man has voiced fear of a Yugoslav attack.
"."5/. Pressure increases within French cabinet for five-power talks on
Indochina:
The attitude of the special Vietnamese
Congress toward the French Union has
led the group within the French cabinet
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favoring negotiations for ending the Indochina war to clamor
more insistently for five-power talks including Communist
China.
The chief of Premier Laniel's staff,
who conveyed this information, said that Laniel was nevertheless
determined to continue his present policy.
Comment: The resolution of the
Vietnamese Congress rejected membership in the French
Union "in its present form."
Assembly opponents of Laniel's program
have succeeded in scheduling a debate on Indochina for 23 October.
The government will probably try to parry criticism by seeking
support until the results of Navarre's campaign can be assessed,
stressing that the Vietnamese Congress had weakened its original
rejection of French Union status.
6. Bidault to force integration issue in French Assembly:
French foreign minister Bidault told
Secretary Dulles in London that he
would resign unless the National
Assembly takes a "positive stand"
on both iiiiEDC nd e proposed political community before
the meeting of foreign ministers at The Hague now scheduled
for late November. He expects the next six weeks to be diffi-
cult, but reiterated his determination to push ahead with the
EDC and the Indochina war.
Comment: For internal political
reasons the Laniel government has scheduled a general debate
on foreign policy in November although planning to delay a vote
on the EDC until early next year. This strategy fails to take
advantage of the present momentum favorable to EDC.
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