CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/05/13

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• Document Creation Date: September 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: May 13, 1955

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
SOUTHEAST ASIA
1. Change of Indonesian army chief of staff may affect September
elections (page 3).
SOUTH ASIA
2. India concerned over continuing Afghan-Pakistani dispute (page 3).
3. Pakistan reportedly agrees to negotiation of dispute with Afghan-
istan (page 4).
EASTERN EUROPE
4, 'Yugoslays submit agenda for proposed "technical talks" with
Western powers (page 5).
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
1. Change of Indonesian army chief of staff may affect September
elections:
It appears likely that Colonel Utoyo, who
is the army commander in South Sumatra,
will be appointed to replace General Sugeng,
Indonesia's army chief of staff, whose res-
ignation the government has just accepted,
His appointment would mark a further
step in the progressive weakening of anti-
Communist factions in the army and may
have an effect on the September elections.
Sugeng has been opposed to Iwa, the pro-
Communist defense minister, and sympathetic toward the anti-
Communist army factions. Utoyo leans politically toward the Na-
tional Party, which heads the present government. Although he
is termed a neutralist with respect to army factions, he may be ex-
pected to support Iwa so long as Iwa has the backing of the rest of
the cabinet.
Four of Indonesia's seven territorial cc.n-
manders are strongly anti-Communist. They have been fairly suc-
cessful in acting independently of Iwa and had been largely counted
on by opposition political groups to ensure honest elections. With-
out a sympathetic army chief of staff in, Djakarta, these command-
ers probably will have less influence on the elections.
SOUTH ASIA
2. India concerned over continuing Afghan-Pakistani dispute:
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Comment: India has in the past supported
Afghanistan, and immediately following the 30 March incidents in
Kabul, Indian propaganda. had a pro-Afghan slant. Since that time,
however, India has become increasingly alarmed over the course
of events and is almost certainly not supporting Afghanistan.
The Indian government
has no desire
to see an armed clash between Pakistan and Afghanistan or the
development of a situation that is conducive to Soviet intervention.
3. Pakistan reportedly agrees to negotiation of dispute with Afghan-
istan:
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