(OUTLINE OF POSSIBLE BRIEFING)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A001100030018-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2008
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 17, 1959
• Content Type: BRIEF

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(Outline of possible briefing)
pA i E 11I ? REVIEWER:
I. Plans to revise the US-Japanese Security Treaty have become em-
broiled in Japanese domestic politics.
A. Divided opinion within his ruling Liberal-Democratic Party has
forced Prime Minister Kishi to abandon plans for an early
signing of a revision.
B. The Socialists are girding for an all-out attack on the treaty.
Socialist party left-wingers have pushed through a decision to
form a united anti-treaty front with the Communists and other
leftist organizations.
C. While the US does not desire security treaty revision per se,
we have consented to it in order to strengthen the Kishi govern-
ment and to make security ties with the US more palatable to
the Japanese.
II. It appears that the Japanese upper house elections in June will be
fought out on clear-cut terms of conservative advocacy of close
cooperation with the US versus Socialist anti-Americanism.
III. This situation poses possible dangers to the Japan-US relationship,
the likelihood of which cannot be predicted with certainty.
A. The electoral campaign could serve to develop and crystallize
deep-seated feeling in Japan over an "insulting" treaty relation-
ship with the US.
B. if the LDP (Kishi) majority is reduced by any substantial pro-
portion in this election, it could well mean the displacement
of Kishi from within his own_par
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