CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/11/12

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• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: November 12, 1953

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
(page 3).
2. Finnish vessel reportedly delivers Satellite guns to Communist
China (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
3. Chinese Communists in Burma reportedly advised to be ready to
leave (page 4).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
4. Israel believed strongly opposed to US-proposed Sordan River
project (page 5).
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WESTERN EUROPE
6. France seeks close collaboration with US on new weapons
development (page 6).
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2. Finnish vessel reportedly delivers Satellite guns to Communist China:
"in Canton's port of Whampoa in
October he observed a Polish and a Finnish
vessel unloading six-inch guns./
works.
/the guns were from Czechoslovakia's Skoda
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Comment: This Finnish shipment, if
correctly reported, is in violation of assurances given the United
States by Helsinki earlier this year that it would not permit its
vessels to carry items of direct military use to Communist China.
These assurances followed protests concerning the Finnish tanker
Wilma's unsuccessful attempt to deliver kerosene to China from
the Black Sea.
The delivery of weapons to Communist
China by sea has been rarely attempted, because rail shipment
through the USSR is more secure.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
3. Chinese Communists in Burma reportedly advised to be ready to
leave:
Comment:
The Chinese Communists may believe that
the continued presence of Chinese Nationalist troops in-Burma will
greatly intensify anti-Chinese sentiment among the Burmese. They
may thus be taking steps to avoid entanglement in official or unoffi-
cial Burmese retaliation against the Chinese community.
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Israel believed strongly opposed to US-proposed Jordan River project:
American charge Russell in Tel Aviv
believes that the real Israeli attitude
toward the American-sponsored Jordan
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River "TVA" project is represented by
the widespread Israeli press
the Near East rather than
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by the government's apparently open-
minded attitude in its discussion with the special envoy. The
government's show of cooperation probably reflects a tactical decision
based on the belief that Arab opposition to the plan is sufficient to
block it.
Russell states that there is little chance
of obtaining a firm Israeli decision on the Jordan project unless
Arab acceptance seems probable.
Comment: Because of Israel's desire
to use the Jordan River to irrigate the Negev desert, opposition to
the American proposal, which allocates more water to Jordan than
to Israel, has been expected.
In the present tense atmosphere, no Arab
agreement to the plan seems likely.
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WESTERN EUROPE
6. France seeks close collaboration with US on new weapons development:
Comment: Bidault has publicly expressed
the interest of his government in a NATO strategy based on atomic
weapons.
The French representative to the North
Atlantic Council has stated that Paris is concerned not over the
question of the withdrawal of American troops now, but about modi-
fications of the 1954 NATO military program and changes in future
planning. The French press, however, has played up statements of
American officials regarding the possible withdrawal of some United
States ground troops from Europe during the next two years.
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