CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 7, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
NEAR EAST
1. Moslems react vigorously to recent events in Morocco (page 3).
EASTERN EUROPE
2. Soviet officer appears as new Commander-in-Chief of Polish
Air Force (page 3).
3. Soviet troops reported in Albania near Yugoslav border (page 4
WESTERN EUROPE
4. Italian Christian Democrats involved in Trieste agitation (page 5)
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1. Moslems react vigorously to recent events in Morocco:
Recent events in French Morocco iw~ }!
have resulted in a violent Moslem _
reaction from Tunisia to India. The
success of the French in imposing
their demands on the Sultan, forcing
him to denounce the Nationalist party
and restricting his already limited
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powers, has caused a wave of denunciations by Moslem political groups
and newspapers, not only against French actions in North Africa, but
also against the continued presence of British troops in the Suez Canal
area and against the US air base agreement for Morocco. In Egypt a
state of emergency was proclaimed on 4 March as a result of anti-
French student demonstrations; and the Arab League has summoned
its Political Committee to a special meeting on 10 March in Cairo to
discuss the Moroccan situation.
Comment: There are indications
that Arab hostility, initially aroused against the French alone, is now
being directed to a considerable extent against the West as a whole.
The re-'emergence of popular criticism against the British base in
Egypt may become sufficiently substantial to counter-act the gradual
progress being made by Egypt and the UK on the difficult treaty issue.
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2. Soviet officer appears as new Commander-in-Chief of Polish Air Force:
The government-controlled Polish press re-
vealed on 27 February that Colonel General
Ivan Lukich Turkel, a high-ranking Soviet
Air Force officer, is now Commander-in-
Chief of the Polish Air Force. No mention was made of the officer
previously believed to hold that post. US Embassy Warsaw notes that
this press reference indicates a sudden change in the top command of
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the Polish Air Force, and that, with the reported appointment of Soviet
Admiral V. S. Cherokov to command the Polish Navy, all major
branches of the Polish Armed Forces are now under direct Soviet con-
trol.
Comment: It is probable that the appointment
of General Turkel, who is believed to have been Inspector General of
the Soviet Air Force, will hasten the current strengthening of the
Polish Air Force. After his appointment as Poland's Minister of.
Defense in November 1949, Soviet Marshal Rokossovsky began a thor-
ough reorganization of the Polish Armed Forces. Recent information
has indicated that the Air Force is now in process of reorganization
and expansion, apparently at a more rapid rate than that of any other
European Satellite. There have been indications that a Polish equiva-
lent to the Soviet Fighter Defense Force is being created. In Feb-
ruary 1951, new Soviet-type jet aircraft appeared at the Warsaw/Bor-
nerowo airfield, which is occupied by a Polish fighter unit. No other
European Satellite is known to have received Soviet-built jet aircraft.
3. Soviet troops reported in Albania near Yugoslav border.
2,000 Soviet troops are encamped north of
Shkoder (Scutari), near the Yugoslav border.
Their mission and the date of their arrival are unknown.
Comment. Although Soviet military and civil-
ian advisers and technicians, probably to the number of several thou-
sand, are active in Albania, the presence of Soviet troop units has never
been confirmed.
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4. Italian Christian Democrats involved in Trieste agitation,
uo amoassaaor iiunn oeiieves that recent
Italian irredentist activities in Trieste orig-
inated chiefly in the Christian Democratic
Party. The party can be restrained from a
"provocative anti-Allied Military Government campaign" by British
representations and reassurances as to present UK policy when Premier
de Gasperi visits London in mid-March. At that time De Gasperi is
expected to urge that the 1948 declaration of the W.-,,stern powers re-
garding Trieste be reaffirmed and that Italian representatives be in-
cluded in any substantive discussions of the problem.
Comment The Christian Democrats are in-
creasingly anxious to improve their position for the forthcoming com-
munal elections in Trieste and Italy by championing nationalist causes.
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