CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/06/05

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Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 CO3194468 TOP SECRET / Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03194468 5 June 1955 Copy No. 94 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN DOCUMENT NO ..57 NO CHANGE IN CLASS, El DECLASSIFIED CLASS. CHANGED TO; IS S C NEXT REVIEW DATE. D/ AUTH: HR 70-2 DATE: .9i/ZeL.0_, REVIEWER: Office of Current Intelligence CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY =F0-13--S-E61-RE-P e0 3.3(h)(2) 3.5(c) 'o/1# Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03194468 RET SUMMARY GENERAL 1. Soviet officials fopter "neutral belt" speculation (page 3). 2. Communist parties confused on interpretation of Soviet-Tito talks (page 4), FAR EAST 3. 4. SOUTHEAST. ASIA NEAR EAST - AFRICA 5. Algerian disorders said to be directed by North African committee in Cairo (page 6). 5 June 55 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 2 TOP SECRET Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03194468 Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03194468 Nuvi. TOP SECRET GENERAL 1. Soviet officials foster "neutral belt" speculation: Several Norwegian diplomatic missions have reported that Soviet officials, in discussing a European neutral belt, have expressed "personal" views that it was reasonable to suppose that some neutralization would have to take place in the Satellites. The source, a Norwegian Foreign Min- istry official, took this to be a hint that the USSR might offer to neutralize Poland and Czechoslovakia in return for major West- ern concessions, presumably including similar status for a unified Germany. He also thought such remarks might presage a campaign to persuade Denmark and Norway of the advantages of joining a neutral belt, and thought this might prove dangerously at- tractive to the Danish public but considerably less so in Norway. Comment: Moscow is apparently attempt- ing to exploit Western speculation on a neutral belt to encourage neutralist sentiment in specific countries. In Pravda on 22 May and in its 26 May note accepting the Western proposals for a sum- mit meeting, the USSR sharply attacked suggestions that the status of the Satellites should be discussed. Increasing speculation on a neutral belt would give impetus to neutralism in Denmark and Norway, but would not be sufficient to jeopardize their membership in NATO. The Scandinavian countries have been skeptical of Soviet motives in Germany and would probably welcome a neutralization of Satellite countries as an indication of Soviet good intentions. 5 June 55 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 3 TOP SECRET Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03194468 Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03194468 2. Communist parties confused on interpretation of Soviet-Tito talks: "Complete disorientation" exists in the Italian Communist Party as a result of the Soviet approaches to Tito. The head of the party press and propaganda office is (des- cribed as replying, in answer to numerous inquiries, that the events should be treated as straight news with absolutely no comment. Sicilian Communist leaders are described as reacting with "amazement and dismay." The clandestine Greek Communist radio station, presumably in Bucharest, has presented only the facts of the developments and has avoided giving: a line. Greek Communists reportedly are perturbed because they feel the move shows Soviet weakness. The Greek Communist Party over a period of time has purged leaders, including the civil war leader Markos Vafiades, for suspected Titoist tendencies. Comment: Initial indecision is also sug- gested by the scant and straight reporting in the Communist press of other non-Orbit countries. The apparent lack of guidance, as well as the difficulty of handling the more specific ideological prob- lem of "national communism" inherent in "Titoism," could account for the confusion and indecision among Communist parties. Except for the Trieste party, however, no other Communist party has been publicly critical of the Ithrushchev approach to Tito. FAR EAST 3. 5 June 55 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 4 RET Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 003194468 Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03194468 / (J1-1 Citt, / *we SOUTHEAST ASIA 5 June 55 CURRENT INTELL TJ8ERET Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03194468 NCE BULLETIN Page 5 Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03194468 *4140/I Vt' la, 1 New NEAR EAST - AFRICA 5. Algerian disorders said to be directed by North African committee in Cairo: A committee of extremist North African nationalist leaders in Cairo, charged with co-ordinating Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian nationalist movements, is direct- ing guerrilla activities in eastern Algeria, Moroccan Istiqlal leader:� Al1al el- Fassi is said to be one of the chief strategists for over-all North African resist- ance. Algeria was given priority over Morocco as a center of re- sistance because the Cairo committee believed the element of sur- prise would be advantageous to the nationalists there. Moroccan nationalists are recruiting, among Moroccans who are members of quasi-military French units, some of which have recently been transferred to eastern Algeria. External aid is mainly finand supplied by Pakistan and Iraq. and about, zu young Moroccans are being trained at the Iraqi military academy. by other sources. Comment: In general this report is confirmed There has been no evidence of successful co- ordinal.on of action among the movements, which appears to point up the difficulties of directing an informal and unwieldy organization from a detached headquarters. Recent reports from Algeria indicate, how- ever, that the guerrillas there are improving their organization and tactics. 5 June 55 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 6 TOP SECRET Approved for Release: 2019/09/17 C03194468