CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A000600120001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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Comment'on the 1952 Soviet State Budget (page
FAR EAST
4. Chinese airfield near Tonkin border improved (page 4).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
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6. Egyptian Foreign Minister urges"early action" on Anglo-Egyptian
dispute (page 6).
WESTERN EUROPE
7. German regional elections will test Adenauer's policies (page 6).
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3. Comment on the 1952 Soviet State Budget:
The planned surplus of 32 billion rubles in the
new Soviet budget is a deflationary measure, which indicates the magni-
tude of existing inflationary pressures. Moreover, some funds for
Soviet atomic energy development may be derived from this source.
Conspicuously absent was any mention
second postwar Five-Year Pla
y, no mention was made of price cuts on consumer
goo s, as in the years 1948-51. It may be that announcements on both
of these subjects are being withheld until the World Economic Conference
meets in Moscow in' April.
FAR EAST
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4. Chinese airfield near Tonkin border improved:
French pilots told the US Air Attache that
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at Lungchou, some 13 miles inside China
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onkin-China border, they had sighted two
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Comment: The last reliable report on this
installation, dated September 1951, described one clay surface runway
of 1,000 feet. Extension and improvement of the field have since been
reported by other sources.
This field is within combat radius of the Tonkin
delta for MIG-15's without wing tanks.
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6. Egyptian Foreign Minister urges "early action" on Anglo-Egyptian
is ute:
The Egyptian Foreign Minister has strongly
appealed to Ambassador Caffery in Cairo for
speedy action on the Anglo-Egyptian controversy.
He warned that this would probably be the last
chance for the free world to reach a solution and that the USSR stands
ready to exploit the situation.
The Foreign Minister also pointed out that,
while the new cabinet of Prime Minister Hilali is seriously considering
urgent domestic reforms, nothing can be done about them until the dispute
with the British is settled.
Comment: Events of the past few months have
shown that domestic issues are so colored by the Anglo-Egyptian contro-
versy that it will be difficult for any government to solve the manypress-
ing internal problems without first reaching some settlement with Britain.
WESTERN EUROPE
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7. German regional elections will test Adenauer's policies:
the trends that will shape next year's Bundestag.elections.
American officials predict a considerable
growth in the strength of the Social Democratic Party which. is opposed
to rearmament. If the Social Democrats gain a plurality, they will also
gain control of the Federal Senate.
Constituent assembly elections in the new
German Southwest State on 9 March will show
the extent of popular opposition to Chancellor
Adenauer's defense program and will indicate
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Comment: Adenauer's Christian Democrats,
the largest party in the state, are weakened by internal dissension and
the competition of two other political organizations new to the area.
Although public opinion polls show that Adenauer's
party has recaptured some popularity, the sharp public reaction to the
government's newly announced rearmament plans will have a dampening
effect on these gains.
It is believed that the West German Communist
Party as well as the right extremist Socialist Reichs Party will show
some increases in this election.
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