CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/03/27

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• Publication Date: March 27, 1956

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CONTENTS
1. USSR OFFERS AID AND FRIENDSHIP TO PAKISTAN
(page 3).
2. PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT REPORTED CONSIDERING
TRADE APPROACH TO THE USSR (page 4
3. EFFECT OF NEW ANTI-STALIN LINE IN ITALY
(page 5).
4. COUP AGAINST BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT REPORTED
PLANNED BY EXILES IN ARGENTINA
(page 6).
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�THE ARAB-ISRAELI ITUATION
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1. USSR OFFERS AID AND FRIENDSHIP TO PAKISTAN
Comment on:
Soviet first deputy premier Anastas
I. Mikoyan, visiting in Karachi, has
suggested that Pakistan replace its
membership in the Baghdad pact and SEATO with adher-
ence to the "five principles," but indicated this was not
a condition for Soviet aid or friendship.
Mikoyan has had at least one long meet-
ing with the Pakistani minister of foreign affairs and the
minister of commerce. Additional Soviet trade specialists
are to arrive in Karachi next week. The Soviet press and
radio have repeated Premier Bulganin's 6 February offer
of Soviet assistance in developing atomic energy for peace-
ful purposes, and Foreign Minister Molotov has hinted that
the USSR might be willing to construct a steel mill for Paid-
stan.
Mikoyan reportedly indicated that if in-
vited, Bulganin and Khrushchev would be pleased to come
to Pakistan.
Mikoyan has made a good impression on
the Pakistanis. They are reported to have accepted his in-
vitation to send a parliamentary delegation to the USSR.
President Mirza has reiterated that Pakistan is not going
to compromise its ties with the West. He commented, how-
ever, that "a change" has come over the Russians during
the past two months--"Thev used to be very cold. Now they
are very warm."
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2. PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT REPORTED CONSIDERING
TRADE APPROACH TO THE USSR
President Magsaysay has recently
mentioned the possibility of approach-
ing the USSR regarding trade,
Magsaysay observed
that if the United States "is taking us for granted, it is
easy for us to get aid also from the Communists," and said
he would send Mike Elizalde, a former ambassador to the
United States, to Russia.
Elizalde is said to have stated that he
had a visa for Moscow and that serious thought was being
given to the possibility of selling surplus sugar and hemp to
the USSR
Comment Magsaysay is being subjected to heavy
pressure by Philippine sugar and tobacco
interests to demonstrate the economic benefits of his strong
pro-American policies. Pressure from these groups has
been accompanied by extensive publicizing of Philippine
"grievances" regarding American military bases and the reg-
ulation of the wages of Filipino laborers on Guam. Philip-
pine congressmen have lately become much more vocal in
criticizing American policies.
It is possible that these various pressures
are having an effect on Magsaysay's own thinking.
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3. EFFECT OF NEW ANTI-STALIN LINE IN ITALY
Comment on:
Secretary General Palmiro Togliatti 's
presentation of the new anti-Stalin line
to the Italian Communist Party (PCI) is
reported to have caused widespread
confusion in the party. Under sharp
attack at a 22 March meeting of the PCI
parliamentary group for having previously
concealed information, he admitted having
been aware of Stalin's "erroneous position"
for many years, but said he did not tell his own party because
premature revelation would have resulted in crises for all the
Communist movements in the world.
Togliatti in the past has been successful
in smoothing over intraparty differences, and it is unlikely
that any serious split will develop at this time or that Tog-
liatti's leadership will be seriously challenged.
Pietro Nenni, head of the pro-Communist
Italian Socialist Party (PSIkhas publicly taken the line that
the attack on Stalin should not have been launched without proper
historical discussion and that the really positive result of the
Soviet Communist Party congress was the acceptance of the
principle of "many roads to Socialism."
The American embassy in Rome believes
that Nenni's adoption of a different line was probably concerted
with Togliatti and that the PSI will succeed in absorbing most
of the present discontent and confusion and prevent defections
from the extreme left in Italy.
In the nationwide local elections to be held
in late spring, the previously apparent trend toward the Nenni
Socialists will probably be accelerated by these developments.
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4. COUP AGAINST BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT REPORTED
PLANNED BY EXILES IN ARGENTINA
A group of Bolivian exiles in Argentina
is planning an attempt to overthrow the
Bolivian government of President Paz
�Estenssoro,
With the exception of the Communists, vir-
tually all anti-Paz groups inside and outside the country,
including tho � e said to support the revolution-
ary attempt.
Comment Such a revolutionary meavement would
probably be spearheaded by the Coalition
of Anti-Communist Parties, organized in Chile in March
1954, for the purpose of overthrowing the present Nation-
alist Revolutionary Movement (MNR) government in Bolivia.
The coalition has termed the MNR "tyrannical" and "Com-
munist." The dominant group in the coalition is the extreme
rightist Bolivian Socialist Falange.
The MNR, despite the Marxist orienta-
tion of many of its leaders, always has claimed to be anti-
Communist. As its position in Bolivia became more securer
it increased its anti-Communist activities. The Bolivian
government is aware of the plotting and appears to be capa-
ble of containing any revolutionary attempt launched by the
coalition in its present poorly organized state, even if Bolivia's
two Communist parties--one Trotskyite�were to co-operate
with the coalition.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 26 March)
The Israelis are planning to lower the level
of Lake uleh ove anat
He says such drainage would involve
ynamiting in the demilitarized zone. The British speculate that
this action might be an attempt by the Israelis to undermine the
UN secretary general's proposed trip. There has been great bit-
terness between Syria and Israel over the Israeli plan to drain
the Huleh swamps, on which work began in the spring of 1951.
Despite a UN Security Council resolution of 18 May 1951, the dis-
pute has never been settled. Any work done in the demilitarized
zone by Israel will provoke strong Syrian protests
two
shiploads of troops and equipment, previously reported as being
shipped from Jidda to Haqual on the Gulf of Aqaba, were headed
for Tebuk, east of the gulf and south of Jordam
unloading at Haqual, including jeeps and
trucks, was then in process.
Saudi Arabia, with Egyptian co-operation, was plan-
ning to improve the Saudi airfield at Tebuk and to construct bar-
racks there.
In line with the continuing Saudi and Egyptian
build-up in the Gulf of Aqaba area,
the landing field at Sharm el Shaikh is being improved.
29 officers and 138 non-
commissioned officers would arrive in Belgrade "about the 22nd"
from Warsaw on their way back to Cairo. These officers and men
have been receiving naval training under Soviet supervision at the
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Polish port of Gdy_nia.
the Soviet bloc has agreed to supply Egypt with two destroyers
and two submarines. At least 12 motor torpedo boats and sev-
eral small landing craft have already been delivered. Egvnt
will also receive two destroyers from Britain.
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