CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/09/04

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• Publication Date: September 4, 1957

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4 September 1957
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CONTENTS
1. MOSCOW EMBASSY COMMENTS ON NEW SOVIET TRAVEL
REGULATIONS (page 3).
642-- 2. JAPAN OUTLINES PLANS FOR CHINA TRADE EXPANSION
(page 4).
at, 3. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC STEPS U7 ACTIVITY T9 INFLU-
ENCE GUATEMALAN ELECTION (page 5).
4. SPANISH CABINET MINISTERS FORESEE CIVIL DISTURB-
ANCES IN OCTOBER (page 6).
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1. MOSCOW EMBASSY COMMENTS ON NEW SOVIET
TRAVEL REGULATIONS
Reference:
he American embassy in Moscow re-
ards the modification of travel rules
or foreigners in the USSR as a consid-
erable improvement for embassy officers
engaged in political, economic and sociological reporting.
Service attachds, however, now are to be excluded from a
number of interesting points in the Leningrad area.
The new regulations, set forth in a note
delivered to the embassy on 30 August, open to foreign travel
a number of smaller cities and points in the Moscow region,
Irkutsk in Central Siberia, and several cities which were not
part of the prewar Soviet Union--the Latvian capital Riga, and
Lvov, Chernovtsy, and Uzhgorod in the western Ukraine. At
the same time, various districts or points in widely scattered
areas of the country were placed on the forbidden list, includ-
ing several districts about 30 miles from Moscow, the western
Portions of Leningrad Oblast, the region surrounding Frunze in
the Kirgiz Republic, and parts of the Kazakh Republic.
In the embassy's opinion, the Soviet move
was not prompted by propaganda considerations but by a desire
to serve domestic security interests while improving the at-
mosphere between the regime and foreign diplomats by elim-
inating vexatious restrictions which are probably no longer
essential on security grounds.
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2. JAPAN OUTLINES PLANS FOR CHINA TRADE EXPANSION
Japanese Foreign Minister Fujiyama, on
30 August handed Ambassador MacArthur
an outline of Tokyo's reasons and plans
for expanding trade with Communist China.
The plans call for expanding trade within the framework of the
China Committee control agreements and for an exchange of
permanent "trade offices" which would not have official status.
Fujiyama said that internal politcal con-
siderations make it impossible for the government any longer
to repress the demands of business, the press, and public
opinion in general for increasing such trade. He added that,
while the significance of the mainland Chinese market is not
overestimated by his government, it is a large market and an
important source of industrial raw materials for Japan.
Comment Press reports from Tokyo indicate that,
for at least five members of the proposed
Chinese "trade office," Japan will waive fingerprint require-
ments, which the Chinese Communists have used as the basis
for refusal to exchange representatives. Peiping now may in-
sist that the requirements be waived for all its trade representa-
tives and that they be accorded official status.
A Japanese trade delegation is scheduled to
begin discussions in Peiping in mid-September for an agreement
calling for annual trade in the amount of $90,000,000 each way.
This figure is $10,000,000 more than goals established in pre-
vious private agreements. Japan has been unable to reach its
export goal in the past, but hopes that its recent relaxation of
the China differential trade embargo and the plans outlined by
Fujiyama will make such achievement possible.
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3. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC STEPS UP ACTIVITY TO
INFLUENCE GUATEMALAN ELECTION
Comment on:
Agents of Dominican dictator Trujillo
are attempting to prejudice the polit-
ically powerful Guatemalan defense min-
ister, Colonel Juan F. Oliva, against for-
mer supreme court chief justice Mighuel Ortiz Passarelli, the
presidential candidate already agreed upon by Guatemalan ad-
ministration and army leaders. Trujillo's objective is appar-
ently the establishment of a strong rightist dictatorship in
Guatemala, either through a coup by top officers or by per-
suading army leaders to assure the "election" of a rightist in
the 20 October presidential election.
Dominican tactics have included a private
warning to the defense minister on 30 August of an impending
leftist "plot" to kill him and seize power. Though there may
be some leftist plotting, it is believed that this Dominican warn-
ing, which is likely to be repeated, is designed primarily to
convince army leaders that a strong rightist government is nec-
essary.
The Dominicans have a strategically placed
tool in Colonel Enrique T. Oliva, the defense minister's am-
bitious half-brother and chief of Guatemalan intelligence. En-
rique has been working with the Dominicans for some months,
but this connection reportedly is not known to his brother, who
regards him highly.
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4. SPANISH CABINET MINISTERS FORESEE CIVIL
DISTURBANCES IN OCTOBER
Spanish Foreign Minister Castiella and
Commerce Minister Ullastres have told
Ambassador Lodge that Spain's economic
problems will probably have political
repercussions during October. Ullastres expects strikes,
student demonstrations, and general disturbances over bus
fare hikes and other price rises.
The commerce minister acknowledged that
his program to reduce consumer demand and encourage sav-
ings is running counter to an increasing desire for a higher liv-
ing standard. However, he rejected the idea of encouraging
foreign investment to strengthen the country's economy, main-
taining that Spanish businessmen would be unable to compete
with large foreign companies.
Comment Though the ministers' expressions of con-
cern are in part due to Spain's desire for
additional American financial assistance, there is ample evi-
dence of the government's failure to hold the line on rising
living costs. A fare boost in early 1957 triggered transporta-
tion boycotts in Barcelona and Madrid and violent demonstrations
by university students,
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