CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1958/09/16

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• Publication Date: September 16, 1958

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16 SEPTEMBER 1958
I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
Taiwan Strait - Indications mounting
of logistical build-up north of Matsus.
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Ithrushchev back in Crimea.
IL ASIA-AFRICA
India will again raise question of Chi-
nese Communist membership in UN. 0
Iraq - Regime attempting to rally public
opinion behind Premier Qasim.
UAR - High-level military meeting in
Cairo.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
16 September 1958
DAILY BRIEF
I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
Taiwan Strait situation: Increased Chinese Communist
shipping to the area north of the Matsus strengthens other
indications of a logistical build-up there since 1 September.
(Page 1) (Map)
USSR: Khrushchev apparently resumed his vacation
in the Crimea on 12 September instead of returning to Mos-
cow, as previously thought possible. His aircraft, which
was origLaally thought to have returned directly to Moscow
from Stalingrad, actually flew first to the Crimea- TASS an-
nounced that Khrushchev received the chairman of the Japa-
nese Council for Prohibition of Nuclear Weaoons on 13 Sep-
tember near Yalta.
II. ASIA-AFRICA
India-UN: New Delhi will again raise the question of
Chinese Communist UN membership in the General Assembly.
Krishna Menon, who will lead the Indian delegation, has been
instructed by Nehru to give the issue only routine emphasis.
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Iraq: The regime is attempting to rally public opinion
behind Premier Qasim following Deputy Premier Aril's re-
moval as deputy commander of the Iraqi armed forces. Qasim,
0 assuming a more public role, delivered two speeches on 15
September appealing for "national unity" and promising a
plebiscite to determine the country's system of government.
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Minister of Guidance Shanshal, reported to be opposing the
Arif faction, has exhorted the ' close ranks behind
"our leader remier asim "
UAR: The commander in chief of UAR armed forces
and the commanders of UAR troops in Egypt and Syria met
In. Cairo over the past week end. The recent movement
to Cairo of an Iraqi military delegation and several exiled
Jordanian nationalist leaders suggests that UAR intentions
with regard to those hr countries may be under review
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I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
Taiwan Strait Situation
At least 14 Chinese Communist merchant vessels arrived
in the port of Wenchow during the period 1-6 September. Pre-
liminary analysis of subsequent reports indicates that this
high rate of shipping activity is continuing If this rate is pro-
jectedit amounts to a monthly rate of 70. nearly douhlp thp
normal port activity for Wenchow.
This is a sig-
=cant southward shift in operations of the Chinese Commu-
nist merchant fleet and appears to be directly related to mil-
itary operations in the strait.
At least 16 jet fighters flew from either Canton or Huiyang
to Chenghai on 15 September. These probably were the aircraft
which flew from Nanchang to Canton on 14 September.
Ten military transports of the 13th Air Division, an air
transport unit, flew from Hsuchow (northwest of Nanking) to
Huiyang via Nanchang on 14 September. The number of air-
craft involved in this moveme t is in exePss nf that normally
associated with a unit move.
The Chinese Nationalist LST which made the supply run
to Kinmen on 14 September off-loaded 17 amphibious tractors
from several miles off the island. The tractors successfully
unloaded 43 tons of food and engineer supplies, but the LST was
unable to recover the tractors because of a mechanical failure
in the ramp.
The Nationalist Air Force dropped 10 tons of food and
other supplies on ICinmen on 14 September. Another air drop
of 20 tons was scheduled for Lieh Hsu (Little Quemoy) later
under cover of darkness.
One thousand tons of supplies were unloaded at Matsu on
14 September.
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Nationalist Vice President Chen Cheng,
was satisfied with the cooperation it had received from
the United States to date, but that the Chinese Nationalist press
and public, not realizing the extent of American cooperation,
was inclined to be critical. Although Chen planned to stress to
the legislature when it opened on 16 September the government's
satisfaction with US assistance, the press has reported the in-
troduction of a resolution which noted the ineffectiveness of the
convoys and called for "immediate and effective" US and Nation-
alist air attack on guns shelling Kinmen.
Chen also said that he had refused a request from the chief
of the General Staff to use the Nationalist Air Force to attack
the Chinese Communist artillery positions when the bombard-
ment began on 23 August. He said, however, that the supply
problem was already critical and that, if it reached the point at
which there was no other alternative, Nationalist air strikes
would have to be made against the Communist artillery.
Peiping apparently sees prolonged negotiations as favor-
able to its aims of reducing Chinese Nationalist morale and
prestige while building an image of Communist China as a
great power requiring international acceptance. Kuo Mo-jo,
Peiping's leading "peace" propagandist, stated in a speech on
15 September, "We do not mind even if the talks go on for five
or even ten years," but added that Communist China hopes to
"settle questions as quickly as possible."
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India's Attitude on UN Membership for Peiping
New Delhi intends to raise the issue of Chinese Commu-
nist membership in the United Nations when the General As-
sembly meets on 16 September, even though it foresees another
defeat. It has sponsored this cause for the past two years and
requested inscription of the item on the UNGA agenda last July,
before the Chinese forces began shelling the offshore islands on
23 August. India presumably feels it cannot now abandon this
stand, especially since it does not believe that Communist
forces actually intend to invade the islands.
Nehru on 15 September once more outlined to parliament
his long-held view that Taiwan and the offshore islands should
become part of Communist China. His government is apparently
embarrassed, however, over the fact that the Communists con-
tinue to shell Nationalist positions almost daily, while the National-
ists take no strenuous retaliatory action. The Indian UN delega-
tion has been instructed to raise the membership issue only rou-
tinely,/
New Delhi apparently has no plans for a diplomatic initiative seek-
ing settlement of the Taiwan issue.
India's cautious attitude seems to stem in large part from
a recent reappraisal of the long-range capabilities and inten-
tions of the Sib-Soviet bloc. Nehru, particularly, now seems
to doubt whether the Communist system can survive without the
suppression of individual freedoms--an approach he himseLf
cannot accept. He is also concerned over Chinese activities
along India's Himalayan frontier and plans to visit Bhutan later
this month.
� The first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in New Delhi
recently expressed anxiety over the "hardening" of India's at-
titude toward Communist China.
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The Secretary of the Treasury
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The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary for Administration
The Counselor
Director, International Cooperation Administration
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Chairman, The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
The Director, The Joint Staff
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Assistant to Secretary of Defense for Special Operations
Deputy Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army
Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of the Navy
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander in Chief, Pacific
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Atomic Energy Commission
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