CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A000300620001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 11, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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seeks to forestall Burmese appeal to UN over Chinese Nationalists
in Burma (page 4)0
4o Burmese Ambassador to Peiping implies US supporting Chinese
Nationalist troops in Burma (page 4)0
5o Opposition to treaty ratification poses threat to Indonesian cabinet
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SOUTH ASIA
6q War tension in Pakistan appears to have slackened (page 5)0
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o UK seeks to forestall Burmese appeal to UN over Chinese Nationalists in
Burman
US Ambassador Key in Rangoon reports that his
British colleague, acting under instructions
from the UK Government, is attempting to dis-
? suade the Burmese Government from making
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a complaint to the United Nations about the continued presence of Chinese
Nationalist troops in -northeast Burma.
Commento The Burmese had originally intended
to present the problem to the N~ on 6 September, but postponed action to
avoid conflicting with the San Francisco conferenced Ambassador Key ha~S
been assured by the Burmese that he will be notified before any such action
is takena
The UI~ no longer exercises sufficient influence
over Burma for its representations to be effective in this rnattere
Burmese Ambassador to Feiping implies US supporting Chinese Nationalist
troops in Burma:
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According to a French Fress Agency report
from Hong Kong, the new Burmese Ambassador
to Communist China stated that the Chinese
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Nationalist forces under General Li Mi which were recently driven out of
Yunnan into Burma were controlled by the Nationalist Embassy in B~.ngkok<
He also asserted that it was possible the US was supporting these forces, as
.they carried arms and equipment of the latest US manufacture9
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Although the Indonesian cabinet authorized
signature of the Japanese peace treaty, it did so
after a split vote -with the National Party,
Indonesia? s second largest party, in oppositiono
The Nati?nal, the Socialist and the Christian parties, and all leftist groups,
have subsequently stated that they definitely oppose ratification of the treatya
The National. Party has intimated that it will withdraw from the cabinet if the
treaty is ratifieda
Commento Even without the support of the
National Party and ?ther opposing groups, the g?vernm~~nt has .sufficient par-
liamentary support on this issue to obtain ratification of the ~reatyb However,
the cabinet is primarily a National Party-Moslem-coalition, and if the forrr~er
carries out its threat to withdraw from the cabinet if the treaty is ratified,
the government will fallo
SQUTH ASIA.
6o War tension in Pakistan appears to have slackenedo
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A considerable relaxation of tension in Pakis-
tani public feeling regarding Indian-Pakistani
relations is reported by the US Military Attache.
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in Karachia Both India and Pakistan have reinstated military leaveso The US
Consul General in Lahore, who toured the fr+~ntier areas at the end of August,
has also reported that the populace is much calmer than it was several weeks
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Cornmento The somewhat relaxed atmosphere
may represent .a natural let-down after almost two months of excitement and
anxfetyo Floods. and the current m?nsoon would seriously hamper any major
military operationso However, until there axe sizealale tr?op withdrawals
from the frontiers, the threat of war Conti-nueso
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