CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/04/23

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03161760
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2019
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2019
• Publication Date: April 23, 1957

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OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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CONTENTS
)1. DEVELOPMENTS IN JORDAN
02. FRANCE W
WEAPONS
(page 3).
"COMMON STOCKPILE" OF NUCLEAR
(page 4).
3. CURRENT PHASE OF SOVIET NUCLEAR TEST SERIES
PROBABLY TERMINATED (page 5).
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I. DEVELOPMENTS IN JORDAN
Comment on:
Jordan's internal split continues to grow.
There are reports that additional anti-
monarchical army officers, including
security chief Maayta, Alave been arrested
y the king, and that Foreign Minister
Nabulsi will resign from the cabinet.
Withdrawal of Nabulsi could bring down
he Khalidi government and push the dom-
inant West Jordan population into open de-
fiance of King Hussain. Should the Khalidi
cabinet fall, according to Ambassador
Mallory, King Hussain's alternatives
would be martial law or abdication. Since
abdication appears unlikely, the ambassa-
dor believes that Hussain may well resort
to military government--unless he is as-
sassinated first.
Anti-palace forces are apparently plan-
ning widespread resignations from the army and government
as tactics to regain the initiative from the king. Ambassador
Mallory reports that large amounts of money are being passed
into Jordan through Egyptian and Syrian hands to finance oppo-
sition to Hussain. Antimonarchical Jordanian army officers
with Syrian help are reported actively planning a countercoup
by leftist groups in West Jordan "after the Easter tourist season
ends."
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2. FRANCE WANTS NATO "COMMON STOCKPILE" OF
NUCL A
French Forel Ministry officials have
raised with American representatives
in Paris the possibility of a NATO "com-
mon stockpile" of nuclear weapons under
SACEUR control for NATO use only. Paris believes such
a stockpile would circumvent pressures in both France and
West Germany for national nuclear weapons production pro-
grams. Foreign Ministry spokesmen described the eventuality
of a German program as "the gravest conceivable danger to
the free world because it would open the way for the Germans
to deal directly with the Soviets,"
Comment Jules Mach, French delegate to the UN
Disarmament Subcommittee, told the
American delegate on 14 April that Paris would forego de-
velopment of its own nuclear weapons capability if a limited
disarmament agreement could assure similar abstention by
Germany and restrictions on German rearmament. Although
the Western European Union prohibits West German produc-
tion of unconventional weapons, the question of actual posses-
sion of such weapons by German troops has never been ex-
plicitly resolved, largely because of French qualms.
Chancellor Adenauer's recent demands for
tactical nuclear weapons and the British decision to rely pri-
marily on nuclear defensive power have intensified French
fears of being "alone on the Continent" with a rearmed Ger-
many.
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3. CURRENT PHASE OF SOVIET NUCLEAR TEST SERIES
PROBABLY TERMINATED
Comment on:
Semipalatinsk airfield would be
opened to all types of aircraft on 22
April. Opening of the airfield probably indicates that a phase
in the Soviet atomic test program has been completed.
Since 28 February, the Semipalatinsk
airfield has been closed to all civil and military aircraft not
associated with the nuclear weapons tests taking place at the
nearby proving ground. During the period 8 March to 16
April the USSR conducted six nuclear tests
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