CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A000600360001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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State Department review completed
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4, Preparations for Communist offensive in Korea reported (page 4).
5o Desperate plight of Americans in China reported (page 5),
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closer relations with Spain (page 6)
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Chilean free
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disposal copper sales reduced (page
7).
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4. Preparations for Communist offensive in Korea reported.
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Two Chinese Communist armies began moving
southeast on 28 March from staging areas in east central Korea near the
39th Paralle Four additional Chinese armies
have also been a er a or Four North Korean corps, now
in the east coast area, are scheduled to participate.
Comment- There are no firm indications that
Communist forces in Korea intend to launch another major offensive in the
near future. It is possible, however, that a limited objective offensive
may be undertaken in eastern Korea, the apparent focal point of the reported
preparations, where UN forces hold a considerable amount of North Korean
terrain.
5. Desperate plight of Americans in China reported.
desperate,
The American Consul General in Hong Kong
reports that the manager of the Standard
Vacuum Oil Company in Shanghai telephoned
the company's Hong Kong office and declared
that the plight of American businessmen was
He was afraid, not so much of jail, as of "the other thing"
The Consul General calls attention to an
authentic report from Tsingtao of the arrest of an American missionary
on 7 March under circumstances indicating that the seizure might be
connected with the germ warfare propaganda campaign,
Comment. All Western businessmen in China
are subjected to extortionate financial demands as a condition for per-
mission to leave the country, Over 200 Americans are still in Commu-
nist China, nearly 40 of them under arrest.
Recent British and French diplomatic reports
have expressed grave concern for their nationals in China.
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Syria favors closer relations with Spain.
The Syrian Government favors close political,
economic, and military collaboration with
Spain,
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attitude stems in large part from Syria's desire
to be equally independent of the Soviet Union and the West.
The Syrian Foreign Minister reportedly said
that his government will take advantage of Spanish Foreign Minister Martin
Artajo's coming visit to complete plans for closer relations,
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Comment:
that some of the Arab states may be willing to consider a .panic - ra
pact. There have been many rumors that the matter would be discussed
by the Spanish Foreign Minister during his tour of the Arab capitals which
began on 4 April,
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Chilean free-disposal copper sales reduced:
shipments are on old orders. The United States Embassy in Santiago
accepts this version and believes that President Gonzalez Videla's
optimistic statements on this subject are intended for internal con-
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Chile has reported that there are practically
no new orders for copper from Chile's 20 per-
cent free-disposal quota, and that current
sumption in Chile.
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The continued failure
of free-disposal copper to be sold at the Chilean fcial price of $1200
per metric ton may considerably weaken Chile's position in the current
Washington conversations in which that country is seeking an increase
of about six cents per pound in the price of copper sold to the United
States.
Chile's free-disposal copper quota for the first
year of the US Chilean agreement of May 1951 may approximate 100,000
metric tons.
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