CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/06/08

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2019
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2019
• Publication Date: June 8, 1957

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CONTENTS
61,Z I. BONN OPPOSES EUROPEAN INSPECTION ZONE IN FIRST
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(page 4).
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IN IRAQ (page 5).
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4. FRANCE INVITES FOREIGN OBSERVERS TO SCENE OF
ALGERIAN MASSACRE (page 6).
IV 5. DISSIDENT COMMUNIST PARTY FORMED IN JAPAN
(page 7).
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1. BONN OPPOSES EUROPEAN INSPECTION ZONE IN
FIRST STEP OF DISARMAMENT
The West German representative in a
statement to the North Atlantic Council
on 6 June ruled out any "first-step" dis-
armament agreement that would include
European inspection. He described an Arctic inspection
zone as the maximum area for an initial step, and pleaded
for time for "detailed consultations" before proceeding with
any other proposals. A first step is needed, he said, to
promote a degree of confidence as a basis for negotiations
of political problems, but he said the German understanding
of initial disarmament measures did not extend to aerial or
ground inspection of Europe, which would be dependent on
progress on German reunification. He described his govern-
ment's views as the basis on which Chancellor Adenauer agreed
to the joint declaration in Washington on 28 May.
Comment Adenauer's opposition to a European in-
spection zone seems to be out of step
with the majority sentiment of West German newspapers and
politicians.
The USSR is likely to reject any Western
proposals which do not provide for a European zone and can
be expected to seize any opportunity to blame West German
opposition to a European aerial inspection zone for failure to
reach a partial disarmament agreement. Soviet propaganda
since Adenauer's visit to Washington has stressed that the
United States and West Germany have formed a "united front"
to prevent any agreement Soviet delegate Zorin told the
United States delegate in London on 3 June that the disarma-
ment talks should not be complicated by political questions
and warned that if the United States brings the German question
into disarmament, it would hamper progress in both disarma-
ment and reunification.
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2. NASR FEARS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT,
President Nasr has recently increased
his personal security guard as a pre-
caution against any assassination attempt
b members of the Moslem Brotherhood,
Nases action followed a
prison riot on 1 June, set off by Brotherhood members in
protest against punitive measures by prison officials. Prison
guards, reportedly acting under orders from Nasr, killed 25
inmatesiamong them prominent Brotherhood leaders. More
than 100 members of the organization were said to have been
imprisoned following antiregime bombings in Cairo on 21
May.
Comment
The Moslem Brotherhood, which was re-
sponsible for the assassination attempt
against Nasr in 1954, has been the target of numerous repres-
sive measures. The Brotherhood has renewed its terrorism
in the campaign leading up to parliamentary elections on 3 July,
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3. IRAQI DISSIDENTS SEEK SYRIAN SUPPORT FOR
UPRISING IN IRAQ
Comment Rashid al-Gaylani, who is vehemently
anti-British and antiregime, has. been
a refugee in Saudi Arabia and Egypt since the overthrow of
his pro-Nazi government in 1941. He has consistently plotted
to regain power in Iraq, where he has a following among the
younger ultranationalistic element. However, the upper
echelons of the Iraqi army are believed to be firmly prore-
gime, and it is doubtful that any uprising could get off the
ground,
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4. FRANCE INVITES FOREIGN OBSERVERS TO SCENE
OF ALGERIAN MASSACRE
The French government has invited
the American embassy in Paris to
send a representative to visit the scene
of the Melouza massacre during the next
few days. Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, India,
Sweden, Japan, Turkey and Uruguay were also asked to
participate.
The embassy believes the invitation may
in effect "constitute a step toward" internationalization of the
Algerian problem.
Comment This proposal could be a straight-forward
move by France to refute Algerian national-
ist propaganda that France was responsible for the massacre
or a maneuver to relieve Mollet's successor of the onus of
Initiating an appeal for internationalization. It is more likely
that Paris is attempting to document Algerian nationalist irre-
sponsibility as part of the French defense in the expected de-
bate in the United Nations this fall.
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5. DISSIDENT COMMUNIST PARTY FORMED IN JAPAN
A "national" Communist Party, headed
by purged central committeeman Shigeo
Shida, has been formed to oppose the
"peaceful" tactics of the Japan Commu-
nist Party (JCP), according to the Japanese police. The
American embassy comments that, while having less pros-
pect of political appeal, the splinter group presents a poten-
tially greater threat to public order than the JCP.
The new group's platform advocates
violence and covert activities and criticizes the JCP for
its unconditional acceptance of "peaceful revolution" as ad-
vocated by the Soviet 20th party congress.
Comment Shida's following so far is reported to
consist of 3,000 dissidents from the JCP,
which is believed to have some 85,000 members. He was
the most powerful leader during the 1950-1955 period of
"extreme left-wing adverturism" when the principal Com-
munist leaders were underground, but was expelled from
the party in September 1956.
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