CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/03/19

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• Document Creation Date: September 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: March 19, 1955

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SUMMARY
FAR EAST
1. Improvement of Chinese Communist airfield near Matsus possi-
bly beginning (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Burmese premier puts loose definition on Chinese Communist
aggression (page 3).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
3. Turkey disturbed by Iraqi delay in developing defense pact
(page 4)0
4. Governor sees possible acceptance of self-determination for
Cyprus (page 4)o
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FAR EAST
1. Improvement of Chinese Communist airfield near Matsus possibly
beginning:
The air attach�n Taipei believes the
Chinese Communists are beginning to
expand the Nantai airfield at Foochow,
about 40 miles west of the Matsus,
Comment: The runway at the Foochow
field is too short for use by jet planes, but it can be extended to
the required 5,000 feet in less than two weeks.
Construction work at the five other air-
fields in the Fukien area on the southeast China coast has not yet
been observed. Improvement of at least one of the Fukien fields
would be expected prior to the launching of Chinese Communist
assaults on the Nationalist-held offshore islands.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Burmese premier puts loose definition on Chinese Communist
aggression:
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Comment: This is the most explicit
exposition of Nu's recent thinking on Peiping's policy. His
complacency regarding the extension of Communist China's
power into peripheral areas, especially Indochina, is in marked
contrast to the apprehension in this regard expressed by Burmese
leaders a year ago.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
3. Turkey disturbed by Iraqi delay in developing defense pact:
Turkey is increasingly concerned over
the failure of Iraqi prime minister Nuni
to agree on a proposed invitation to
Pakistan to adhere to the Turkish-Iraqi
defense pact. According to Ambassador Warren, the Turkish
prime minister hopes for American and British pressure to con-
vince Nun i that Pakistan's adherence is an essential first step in
the development of the pact.
Comment: This is the first indication
that Ankara is losing patience wWwhat it feels is Baghdad's de-
lay in developing the recent agreement. Ankara has always re-
garded Pakistan's adherence as essential to the "northern tier"
concept and only agreed to the bilateral approach to negotiation
of Middle East defense arrangements as a concession to Nun.
Nun i has characterized Pakistan's
adherence to the pact-as "automatic." His delay in this instance
probably results from the fact that Iraq's energies are currently
devoted to forestalling the formation of a hostile Eavntian-Saiiel
Arabian-Syrian combination
4. Governor sees possible acceptance of self-determination for
Cyprus:
19 Mar 55
The British governor of Cyprus, Sir
Robert Armitage, is reported to be-
lieve that an official declaration favor-
ing eventual self-determination for the
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island may be the only way around Cypriot refusal to discuss a
constitution. According to the American consul at Nicosia,
Armitage says he has reason to hope that London now may be
willing to seek a formula including such a statement.
Comment: Armitage is in London for
consultation. Up to this time Britain has refused to consider
self-determination for Cyprus.
A British statement favoring self-
determination probably would represent the minimum con-
cession acceptable to Cypriot Nationalists. The continuing high
pitch of anti-British feeling on the island is reflected in recent
rioting, which was occasioned by the opening of the trial on
16 Marchof Nationalists accused of smuggling arms into the
colony.
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