CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1954/10/19

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03000842
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: August 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2019
• Publication Date: October 19, 1954

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SUMMARY
SOUTHEAST ASIA
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observers doubt free Vietnam's future (page 3).
Cambodia embarking on neutralist course (page 3).
Comment on threatening Indonesian cabinet crisis (page 4).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
4. Comment on Israeli relations with the Arab states and the
United Nations (page 5).
EASTERN EUROPE
5. Moscow radio credits Yugoslav partisans with role in liberation
(page 5).
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
observers doubt free Vietnam's future:
members of the Inter-
national Control Commission in Saigon
have told an American embassy officer
that all the Vietnamese they have met
are anti-Diem. They believe the Viet Minh will inevitably take
over free Vietnam since the free Vietnamese, in contrast to the
Viet Minh, can count only on the "ineffective, American-sustained
Diem government" or a combination of the sects sponsored by Bao
Dai. the Viet Minh government and
army represent the only real unity and strength in Vietnam.
Comment: The prolonged political crisis
in the south has prevented the Diem government from starting an
effective program that could appeal to the generally disillusioned
public. At the same time, non-Communist members of the Inter-
national Commission have invariably been impressed by the Viet
Minh's effectiveness.
Cambodia embarking on neutralist course:
The king of Cambodia recently left the
strong impression
that he would try to steer a precar-
ious middle course between the East and
West, I rhe king
hopes in this way to be able to obtain the benefits of both Western
aid and Communist good will.
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The chief of the French military mission
in Cambodia has told Ambassador McClintock that while many
Cambodian leaders were opposed to any attempt to steer a middle
course, the king would not listen to them.
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