CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/06/03

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• Document Creation Date: October 25, 2019
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2019
• Publication Date: June 3, 1956

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3 June 1956
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CONTENTS
� 1. ARAB AID TO ALGERIAN REBELS
(page 3).
2. COMMENT ON SOVIET-WEST GERMAN TRADE RELATIONS
(page 4).
3. PINEAU REPORTS KHRUSHCHEV'S VIEWS ON GERMAN
REUNIFICATION (page 5).
4. ITALIANS EXPECT PREMIER SEGNI TO VISIT MOSCOW
(page 6).
5. TAIWAN COLLABORATION WITH KARENS MAY BE BROUGHT
UP DURING BURMESE MILITARY CHIEF'S VISIT TO US
(page 7).
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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1.* ARAB AID TO ALGERIAN REBELS
he Arab states appear to be moving
romptly to implement a mid-May
rab League Political Committee reso-
ution,
hich calls for a
continu tion d increase of material and military assist-
ance to the Algerian rebels in the manner which each coun-
try deems appropriate."
12 tons of arms anc
ammunition promised the rebels some time earlier by the
Syrian army were to be collected in Syria and trans-
ported by air, presumably to Egypt but possibly direct to
Algeria.
Iraq has vigorously supported the Algerian
nationalists.
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2, COMMENT ON SOVIET-WEST GERMAN
TRADE RELATIONS
A Bonn Foreign Ministry official, Van
Scherpenberg, recently told American
officials he intends to inform Soviet am-
bassador Zorin that the West Germans
made no promise during Chancellor
Adenauer's negotiations in Moscow last
September to conclude a trade agreement,
although they are prepared to talk about
the "development of trade."
During Adenauer's negotiations in Moscow,
Bulganin referred to the very limited and unstable nature of
Soviet-West German trade and urged a long-term agreement
of 4 to 5 years' duration. On his arrival in Bonn in December
1955, Soviet ambassador Zorin renewed this proposal. He has
visited many West German industrial concerns and dangled the
prospect of large Soviet orders before West German business-
men in return for their intervention with the federal authorities
to negotiate an agreement. Two Soviet embassy officials re-
cently visited Alfried Krupp in Essen in an effort to persuade
him to write a letter to Chancellor. Adenauer that negotiations
should be undertaken.
Although there has been some pressure from
business circles to liberalize trade with the USSR, the Bonn
government has shown no interest and has sought to check the
� Soviet embassy's activities in that direction. Foreign Minister
Von Brentano is reported to have said on 11 May that a trade
agreement would be concluded only when relations with the USSR
were "normalized" and Germany reunified.
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3. PINEAU REPORTS KHRUSHCHEV'S VIEWS ON
GERMAN REUNIFICATION
French foreign minister Pineau informed
Ambassador Dillon on 31 May that during
the French leaders' recent visit to Moscow,
Khrushchev had clearly and frankly stated
oppositionhis to German reunification on any basis whatsoever.
Khrushchev said it was obviously much better for the USSR to
have 50,000,000 Germans against it and 20,000,000 where they
are now than to have 70,000,000 Germans united against it.
Pineau said it was clear to the French that
when the USSR contends that reunification is a problem to be
discussed between the two German governments, it certainly
does not expect such discussions to lead to reunification.
Khrushchev also told the French that while
the USSR in the long run could always count on reaching a
workable disarmament arrangement with the United States, the
Soviet leaders could have no such confidence in Germany.
Comment Khrushchev 's remarks about the USSR's in-
terest in the continued division of Germany,
a view he has expressed on several previous occasions, and his
expression of distrust toward Germany were obviously calcu-
lated to appeal to what the Soviet leaders probably regard as
similar interests and fears on the part of the French.
The USSR, in an attempt to draw French
support away from the Western position on German rearma-
ment and reunification, has long sought to impress on succes-
sive French governments that the USSR and France have a strong
mutual interest in preventing a resurgence of a rearmed and
unified Germany.
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4. ITALIANS EXPECT PREMIER SEGNI TO VISIT MOSCOW
The question of a visit by Italian premier
Segni and foreign minister Martino to
Moscow was raised again on 1 June by the
Soviet embassy in Rollie. According to
the American embassy the Foreign Ministry believes Segni
and Martino will feel forced to visit the USSR by fa1l4 ;and the
Soviets have been iassdred ithEtt,an Italian Lpairliatnientatryigioup
will visit the USSR this summer.
Comment Soviet ambassador Bogoznolov reportedly
discussed the idea of a visit with Segni and
President Gronchi last January, but the Italians stalled be-
cause of the then upcoming local elections. At the present time,
however, it is likely that Segni and Martino, if not Gronchi, will
accept the Soviet invitation.
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