CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/08/30

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03178359
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• Document Creation Date: October 25, 2019
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2019
• Publication Date: August 30, 1956

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CONTENTS
1. EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT FEARS WESTERN ECONOMIC
PRESSURES (page 3).
2. CHINESE NATIONALIST AIRCRAFT MAY USE SOUTH
KOREAN AIRFIELD :page 4).
3. COUP REPORTEDLY IMMINENT IN SYRIA
4. BURMA CONSULTS OTHER NEUTRALIST POWERS IN
Page 5).
BORDER DISPUTE WITH CHINA (page 6).
5. INDONESIA PLANS TO REINTRODUCE NEW GUINEA ISSUE
AT UN (page 8).
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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1. EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT FEARS WESTERN
ECONOMIC PRESSURES
The Egyptian government is now more
concerned about the consequences of
Western economic warfare measures
than it is over the threat of Western
force
The Cairo cabinet reportedly
believes that effective economic meas-
ures would bankrupt the country in a
very few months, and that the alternatives open to the re-
gime would be either complete economic dependence on the
Soviet bloc or growing unrest which would culminate in
Nases downfall./
The American embassy in Cairo reports
that Egypt's existing industrial plant is already suffering
from lack of replacement parts, especially in the commu-
nications field. The principal food problem facing Egypt in
the next year is to obtain about 600,000 tons of wheat from
abroad; 100,000 tons reportedly have been pledged by Syria,
and an equal amount by Switzerland.
The embassy feels that the results of eco-
nomic pressure might include the liquidation of the generally
pro-Western middle class, which would be unable to stay
in business under the economic controls the regime could
apply.
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2. CHINESE NATIONALIST AIRCRAFT MAY USE SOUTH
KOREAN AIRFIELDS
Chinese Nationalist long-range recon-
naissance aircraft may make use of
South Korean airfields as terminals for
flights over Communist China,
these aircraft would penetrate far inland and
north into Communist China.
no confirmation of this information, but
the commander in chief of the Nationalist air force, Gener-
al "Tiger" Wang, recently visited South Korea and that high-
level meetings have taken place.
Comment Seoul and Taipei have been advocating
closer military co-operation and have
publicly indicated a desire for a military alliance. Inci-
dents resulting from deeper aerial penetrations of Comm-4-
nist China would serve the interest of both the Nationalists and
South Koreans in maintaining a state of tension in the Far
East.
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COUP REPORTEDLY IMMINENT IN SYRIA
Comment Quwatli's information may be based on
new threats by the Arab Socialists to
overthrow him if the death sentences of the three rightist
Syrian Social Nationalist Party members involved in a polit-
ical assassination last year are not carried out. In early
August, Quwatli said he would resign rather than approve
their executions, but acceded to a compromise which has
delayed the final decision.
A coup attempt by the Arab Socialists
is a constant threat. They are the targets of the conserva-
tive senior officer group which forced the ouster of chief
of staff Shuqayr, and they would almost certainly attempt
a coup if they felt any serious moves against them were im-
minent.
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4. BURMA CONSULTS OTHER NEUTRALIST POWERS IN
BORDER DISPUTE WITH CHINA
Comment on:
Burma is laying the groundwork for the
intercession of other neutralist powers
on its behalf, should its own efforts fail
to obtain satisfaction from Peiping on
the Wa States border dispute.
In the event that any neutral countries
should intercede with Peiping on Burma's behalf, the Chinese
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Communists are likely to try to convince them that China's
claim to the disputed territory is at least equally valid.
Peiping has consistently refused to recognize the 1941 bound-
ary line because it was negotiated by a Chinese government
which was not properly representative of the "Chinese peo-
ple."
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5. INDONESIA PLANS TO REINTRODUCE NEW GUINEA
ISSUE AT UN
� Comment Indonesia's efforts last year to get the
UN to recognize its claim to Netherlands
New Guinea failed when the General Assembly adopted a res-
olution merely noting that Indonesian-Dutch negotiations were
under way and expressing the hope that they would be fruit-
ful.
Indonesia is hopeful that President
Sukarno's recent visits to the United States and Western
Europe will result in increased support in the UN for its
position,
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 29 August)
estimates that Israel has a two-year supply of all types of small
arms ammunition in stockpile.
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In connection with a rumor circulating in
Jordan on 24 August that 23 Israeli paratroopers had landed there,
that there is some un-
verified information that sections of Jordan's Arab army are on
special anti-parachutist missions. the
"scare" resulting from the rumor points up the nervous state of
the army and its readiness to believe any story involving possible
Israeli aggression.
Forty T-34 tanks and an undisclosed number
of "large" artillery pieces which reportedly arrived on a Soviet
vessel were moved from the security area of Alexandria on 20
August, It is probable that the
tanks and artillery were delivered by a Soviet vessel which was
due in Alexandria at that time. About 20T.-34 tanks, several
JS-3 tanks, and considerable quantities of artillery ordered by
the Egyptians are estimated to have been undelivered as of mid-
August.
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