CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A000500190001-5
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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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AUTFI: HR 70
Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SUMMARY
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2. areas prepared to sign treaty with Communists in Burma age .
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
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4, rgi Prime Minister again proposes solution oAnglo-Egyptian
dispute (page 5).
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WESTERN EUROPE
6. Comment on shake-up in Soviet High Command in Austria (page 7).
7. Schuman expects French-German accord on security controls (page 7).
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2. Karens prepared to sign treaty with Communists in Burma:
The insurgent Karens reportedly are prepared
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Flag Communist faction in January unless they
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are guaranteed military assistance by "a foreign anti-Communist power. "
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the treaty will
provide for a separate Karen state within a Communist-controlled Burma.
Rebel Karen leaders were further assured that
the treaty would be approved by Thakin Than Tun, chief of the Stalinist or
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nist aid and probaganda may already.have won over a majority of the Karens.
Comment: The. Communists have been gaining
Karen support as .hopes for Western id have faded. The Communists have
also obtained.. Karen favor through the provision of arms, ammunition and
food. An agreement of this nature, posing a serious threat to the Burmese
Government, has been forecast by several previous reports.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
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4. Iraqi Prime Minister again proposes solution of Anglo-Egyptian dippute:
The Iraqi Prime Minister's latest proposals for
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five-year alliance between Egypt and Britain,
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but also include the complete evacuation of all British land forces within a
fixed time. A joint British-Egyptian military storage base is to be established..
in the Canal zone, and a joint air force to be set up for the defense of the
Canal. This information originates with the Iraqi Minister in Cairo.
The proposals also provide that the Sudanese
be permitted freely to determine their future relations with Egypt and that
Britain in no way attempt to influence the Sudanese against union with Egypt.
Comment: This and other versions of the Iraqi
proposals appear to contain provisions which would be rejected by either or
both of the two parties.
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WESTERN EUIROPE
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The American Joint Indications Committee in
1ustria attributes the current shake-up of Soviet occupation officials to
Moscow's dissatisfaction with the Soviet High Command's failure to support
the Austrian Communist Party. The Committee is concerned that the
changes may bolster the party and increase the internal security problem in
Austria.
While speculative, this interpretation is supported
by other evidence. Heretofore, the Soviet officials in Austria have extended
neither respect nor trust to Austrian Communists although they assisted them
on such occasions as the demonstrations in October 1950. Communist or-
ganizations have been criticized, and Communist leaders treated shabbily at
public functions.
On the other hand, despite the general unpopu-
larity of the Soviet occupation, personal relations between top Soviet and
non-Communist Austrian officials have not been entirely unfriendly. That
Moscow may be preparing to amend this policy in favor of closer cooperation
with the Austrian Communists is suggested by the replacement cif the
relatively popular political adviser by Sergei Kudryavtsev who was connected
with the,Soviet espionage system in Canada in 19450
7. Schuman expects French-German accord on security, controls:
On the basis of a private discussion with German
Chancellor Adenauer on security controls over
armament production in Germany, French Foreign
Minister Schuman revealed his belief that the
French and German Governments will reach an
agreement satisfactory to the US and Britain. In
the meantime, Schuman does not favor further
French-American-British conversations on this
subject at the diplomatic level.
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Commissioner McCloy in Bonn feels that the
French now seem prepared to adopt a more reasonable attitude on security
controls.
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Comment. Early in December, France had
requested high-level tripartite conversations to decide on an acceptable
Allied position on security controls, and the American Embassy in Paris later
reported its opinion that the French had made their last concession on the
issue. Schuman had hoped to obtain A.denauer? s acceptance of a contractual
arrangement on security controls during the Paris meeting of the Defense
Community Foreign Ministers, but there is no indication that Adenauer has
given in on this point.
A French-German accord on security controls
would eliminate the main obstacle to speedy agreement on the European
Defense Community and the whole problem of contractual arrangements.
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