CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/01/30

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03161985
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2019
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• Publication Date: January 30, 1957

CURRENT
INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
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CONTENTS
1. INDIA REACTS SHARPLY TO UN PLEBISCITE RESOLU-
TION ON KASHMIR (page 3).
2. NEW EGYPTIAN ARMS SHIPMENT BELIEVED EN ROUTE
TO ALGERIANS (page 4).
3. HUNGARY REPORTEDLY EXTORTING "CONFESSIONS"
IMPLICATING WESTERN NATIONS (page 5).
4. FRENCH CHARGE IN LAOS ADVISING PATHET LAO
(page 6).
5. FRENCH WEST AFRICAN OFFICIALS ALARMED OVER
SELF-GOVERNMENT DEMANDS (page 7).
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1. INDIA REACTS SHARPLY TO UN PLEBISCITE
RESOLUTION ON KASHMIR
Comment_on:
The Indian army is "fully mobilized"
against the threat of Pakistani military
action in Kashmir,
the Indian army
will strike only if Pakistan initiates hos-
tilities.
The state of tension in India, resulting
from the UN Security Council's resolu-
tion of 24 January which called for a pleb-
iscite in Kashmir, is also reflected in
Krishna Menon's statement to Ambassa-
dor Lodge on 28 January that there is danger of Pakistani
"fedayeen" attacks in Kashmir and that if they occur, he fa-
vors taking over all of Pakistan.
The Indian press has lashed out at "the
interested and mischievous role" played by Britain and the
United States throughout the Kashmir dispute.
India's belligerent attitude will probably
become even more extreme in reply to Pakistan's proposal
for introduction of a UN force into Kashmir. However New
Delhi, which controls most of the disputed state, is unlikely
to provoke hostilities unless it decides that this is the only
way to prevent a plebiscite--which it would probably lose to
Pakistan.
Karachi is equally unlikely to precipitate
a conflict as long as it continues to receive UN support.
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2. NEW EGYPTIAN ARMS SHIPMENT BELIEVED EN ROUTE
TO ALGERIANS
Libya has agreed that "the goods" may
pass through his country.
the shipment would be ready for delivery in "al-
Salum"--presumably the port city on the Egyptian-Libyan
border--on 31 January and that "a reliable group" should he
�sent from Tunisia to receive it there in order to guarantee
its arrival in Tunis.
Comment The "goods"
are probably additional arms to support
the military offensive being planned by the Algerian rebels.
Arms consignments to the Algerians via
Libya reportedly have been stepped up since 1 December with
the Libyan government facilitating their transshipment. These
reports suggest that Tunisian authorities usually take charge of
consignments at the Libyan-Tunisian border and make the actual
deliveries.
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3. HUNGARY REPORTEDLY EXTORTING "CONFESSIONS"
IMPLICATING WESTERN NATIONS
A reliable source of the American lega-
tion in Budapest states that many Hun-
garians deported to the USSR after the
revolution have been returned and are
prison. The returnees are being re-
leased only if they sign a "confession" admitting "contact"
with Western powers.
Comment
Such confessions may be used in the
forthcoming political trials to implicate
Western states and their diplomatic missions in the Hun-
garian uprising.
Hungary has accelerated its anti-Western
campaign during the past week, and the legation believes
that efforts to hamper the activities of Western missions in
Budapest are already under way.
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4. FRENCH CHARGE IN LAOS ADVISING PATHET LAO
Comment on:
French charg�oulie
has joined with the Indian truce com-
missioner in recommending the urgent
return to Vientiane of Pathet chief Souphannouvong in order
to head off growing cabinet criticism of the 28 December
agreement with the Pathet Lao.
Soulie's lack of sympathy with US-UK efforts to
block the formation of a coalition government with the Pathet
Lao. It is now apparent that he is actually promoting the
coalition.
By such tactics Soulie apparently hopes
to increase French influence in Laos. The degree of his
success in assuring Souvanna Phouma of French co-operation
was made apparent by Souvanna on 27 January when he pub-
licly thanked Soulie for his government's support, and ob-
served that France as a fellow member of the French Union
was the only government which had the right to advise and
criticize Laos on foreign policy matters.
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5. FRENCH WEST AFRICAN OFFICIALS ALARMED OVER
SELF-GOVERNMENT DEMANDS
Local French officials are deeply disturbed
over current political developments in French
West Africa, particularly by the growing de-
mands for early self-government. The Amer-
ican consul general at Dakar notes that they
are most concerned over the rapid pace of
these developments,
and fear that Paris will
not realize the neces-
sity of major policy re-
adjustments to meet
the new situation.
According to the
deputy high commission-
er of French West Afri-
ca, the Africans now
say they plan to turn the
federations of West and
Equatorial Africa into
two independent states
associated with France
rather than accepting
the French plan for 12
autonomous territories.
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Comment Most of this change in African attitude has
taken place since French Togoland was
granted autonomy in late 1956, and has been influenced by de-
velopments in North Africa and the Gold Coast.
West African territorial leaders recently
supported a refusal of the Grand Council at Dakar to discuss the
budget because of dissatisfaction with the implementation of the
new basic reform law. The African majority of the representa-
tives on a committee of the French National Assembly voted unan-
imously on 24 Tannary to grant larger powers to African councils.
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