ANNUAL REPORT OF RESISTANCE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (RIC) FOR FISCAL YEAR 1955-56

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: July 12, 1956
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MEMORANDUM FOR : The Intelligence Advisory Committee
SUBJECT : Annual Report of-Resistance Intelligence
Comrnittce (RIC) for Fiscal Year 19,55-56
1. Since its re-establishment in August 1955, the Resistance
Intelligence Committee (RIC) has:
- formulated its own terms of reference, which were
approved by the IAC in January 1956.
- surveyed resistance activities in the Sino-Soviet bloc
in 1955 on the basis of informal contributions from
the Departments of State, Navy, Army, Air and the
Central Intelligence Agency.
- fulfilled requests for information on resistance from
USEUCOM and CINCFE.
- served as a forum for inter-agency discussions of
current resistance developments in the Sino-Soviet
bloc,
2. The RIC review of resistance developments during 1955 showed
no material change in the quantity or quality of the flow of resistance
intelligence from the bloc with the exception of some improvement with
respect to East Germany and Communist China. There was little
evidence of active resistance in 1955 in the Sino-Soviet bloc, although
some passive resistance appears to have continued.
3. Since the Twentieth Party Congress in the USSR, the Soviet
and satellite regimes have undertaken a number of measures ostensibly
designed to liberalize their rule. These measures have apparently
produced different reactions among different groups (the riots in Poland
and Georgia, student demonstrations in Czechoslovakia, changes in
top satellite ruling circles, etc). The RIC, working through the
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component agencies, is watching the effects of these measures-to
.see whether they tend to invite resistance or to lessen resistance.
Thus far, the available evidence is too limited to justify a revision
at this time of NIE 10-55, Anti-Communist Resistance Potential in
the Sino-Soviet Bloc, April 12, 1955.,
4. Recommendation. In conformity with its terms of reference,
the RIC recommends that the IAC:
(1) agree that a continuation of this trend in the
Sino-Soviet bloc would warrant a revision of
NIE 10-55 in late 1956.
BORIS H. KLOSSON
Department of State
Chairman, RIC
June 30, 1956
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