CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A000600230001-9
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
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4. American Minister analyzes rumors of French negotiations with Viet Minh:
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Minister Heath in Saigon credits assurances
given last' month by Minister for Associated
States Letourneau, and more recently by other
high officials, that the French Government is
not now engaged in, or considering the opening of,negotiations with the
Viet Minh, Heath expresses the view, however, that some statements
of French leaders on this subject are equivocal and do not preclude
consideration of an offer for negotiations by the Viet Minh or a neutral
like India.
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Minister Heath is convinced that the French
would not initiate negotiations "at this precise time," and believes that
the Viet Minh would refuse to deal with the French.
Comment: For some time rumors have
persisted in Saigon and Hanoi that French officials have been,. or have
been on 'the point of, negotiating, or planning truce negotiations, with
the Viet Minh. There is no evidence to substantiate these rumors.
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NEAR EAST - AFRICA
6. American Ambassador pessimistic about British-proposed joint statement
on Egypt:
The American Ambassador in Cairo believes
that the statement the British Cabinet proposed
as a joint Anglo-Egyptian communique for the
treaty negotiations represents a "degree of
progress," but is "not nearly enough" to arouse Egyptian action. He is
particularly disturbed by the British assumption that Egypt would accept
a verdict on the Sudan from a Sudanese cabinet and parliament selected
entirely by the British.
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According to the Ambassador, his British
colleague has discussed the proposed communique with Prime Minister
Hilali and with an adviser of the King only in general terms,because he
feels that the proposed statement concedes so little that it might disrupt
the negotiations.
Comment: A Foreign Office official in London,
while admitting that the British statement offers little on the Sudan
question, has explained that the draft nevertheless represents the
maximum concessions which the British Cabinet can make at this time.
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