CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/08/10

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05973586
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• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2019
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2019
• Publication Date: August 10, 1952

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New Soviet jet units rushed into Korean combat (page 3).
Comment on MacDonald's statement emphasizing Vietnamese
independence (page 4).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
4. Iranian note to Great Britain indicates no desire to compromise
(page 4).
EASTERN EUROPE
5. Czech Communists step up production and socialization campaign
(page 5).
WESTERN EUROPE
6. Austro-Polish trade talks broken off (page 5).
7. Dutch Foreign Minister disgusted with Schuman Plan meeting
(page 6).
8. Shift in French policy toward Spain indicated (page 6).
LATIN AMERICA
9. Argentine labor may attempt coup (page 7).
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I. New Soviet jet units rushed into Korean combat
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Two new jet fighter units, probably regiments,
aggressively engaged UN aircraft all the way
f rom Antung to Pyongyang in their first ap-
pearance on the Soviet GCI net at Antung on
6 August.
commen s a i is ighly unusual for new Soviet elements to enter
combat without several weeks training on the GCI net, and regards this
development as a "frantic" Communist reaction to the UN "get tough"
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Comment: Combat contacts between UN
aircraft and Communist jets were unusually high on 6 August. Of
239 MIG-15's observed, 90 made contact and six were destroyed.
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3. Comment on MacDonald's statement emphasizing Vietnamese
independence:
British Commissioner General for Southeast
Asia MacDonald may have been intending to force the French to clarify
their relationship with the Associated States when he called attention
to Letourneates June statement in Washington that Vietnam, Laos, and
Cambodia enjoy what amounts to dominion status within the French
Union. At a press conference MacDonald praised Letourneau's sincerity
which has "proved beyond doubt that France's purpose is the complete
national freedom of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia on a basis of fra-
ternal equality with France and other free nations,"
MacDonald was in effect outlining the aims
of Vietnamese nationalism, not current French policy. Letourneau's
remark elicited a rebuke by President Auriol and was censored in
Saigon and apparently in Paris.
NEAR EAST- AFRICA
4. Iranian note to Great Britain indicates no desire to compromise:
Ambassador Henderson reports that the 3.3(h)(2)
7 August Iranian note to Great Britain which
offered to reopen oil negotiations was ill-
timed and appeared to nullify current Amer-
ican and British efforts to prepare a joint approach to Iran.
Comment: The intemperate Iranian note
demands several million pounds allegedly owed to Iran by the Anglo-
Iranian Oil Company. It shows that Mossadeq has no intention of
compromising with the British despite Iran's desperate need for funds.
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EASTERN EUROPE
5. Czech Communists step up production and socialization campaign:
"class enemies."
The US Embassy in Prague believes that the 3.3(h)(2)
Czech Communist regime now feels itself
strong enough to take vigorous measures to
increase industrial production and liquidate
The Ministry of State Control and the newly created
Ministry of Railroads have been given extraordinary powers to deal
with production lags and labor problems. The drive against the kulaks
is being intensified, and the Embassy anticipates that the deportations
of "politically unreliables" from Prague, Bratislava and Brno will
spread.
Comment: An intensified socialization
drive has been apparent in both Czechoslovakia and Hungary since
June. The Czech campaign points up the fact that the party has re-
covered from the effects of last winter's major purges.
WESTERN EUROPE
6. Austro-Polish trade talks broken off:
The Polish delegate at the Austro-Polish 3.3(h)(2)
trade negotiations in Vienna has "temporarily"
suspended discussions and returned to Warsaw.
Prior to his departure, he proposed an in-
terim three-month extension of the existing agreement with a 25 per-
cent increase in selected quotas.
The Austrians are reportedly receptive to this
proposal; they believe, however, that the possibility of concluding a
new agreement in November will depend on the urgency of Poland's
need to sell coal at a time when Austria is faced with a winter coal
shortage.
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Comment: The probability that Poland is
counting on a weakening of Austria's bargaining position emphasizes
Austria's need to use its favorable coal credit with Poland immedi-
ately to increase its stockpiles of coaL
7. Dutch Foreign Minister disgusted with Schuman Plan meeting:
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Dutch Foreign Minister Stikker has informed
the American Embassy in The Hague that at
the recent meeting in Paris he told the Schuman
Plan ministers of his disgust at their "petti-
ness, indecision and nationalism."
In an effort to put an end to the "scheming"
of France, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg for individual advantage
in the organization, he offered to forego such advantages for the Nether-
lands provided the other countries would "get together, organize, and
get something done." Monnet, the real author of the Schuman Plan,
twice offered to resign and accused French Foreign Minister Schuman
of having "sunk the cause of European unity."
Stikker does not expect any concrete results
from the current meeting in Luxembourg.
8. Shift in French policy toward Spain indicated:
Following the lifting by Britain of the embar-
go on certain semimilitary shipments to Spain,
"it is not to our in-
terest to leave to Great Britain the exclusive
enetit of a change in attitude, the initiative of which rests with us."
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Comment: A desire for closer relations with
Spain recently became evident in contacts made by certain French mili-
tary and political leaders with the Spanish Embassy in Paris.
This growing interest in Spain stems from
France's fears of a resurgent Germany and its desire to strengthen its
position vis a vis the Arabs by cooperation with Spain.
LATIN AMERICA
9. Argentine labor may attempt coup:
The General Confede ration of Labor may at-
tempt an early coup,
Comment: The death of Senora de Peron
has increased the likelihood of conflict between labor and the army.
This is the first report suggesting that labor is prepared to take direct
action to preserve its influence on the government.
The reported existence of an army plot to
overthrow Peron, tentatively scheduled for the near future, might
cause the General Confederation of Labor to attempt a preventive coup
to "protect" Peron.
The General Confederation of Labor is ef-
fectively infiltrated by Communists.
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