CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A000600610001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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US OFFICIALS ONLY
4 May 1952
Copy No. 52
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
I. French Foreign Office sees "technical motives" behind Soviet
airliner attack (page 3).
FAR EAST
3. Tokyo May Day riot may cause repression of Sapanese labor
(page 4).
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NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Iranian security officer fears attempt to assassinate Prime
Minister Mossadeq (page 5).
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WESTERN EUROPE
7. French threaten to suspend Defense Community negotiations
(page 6).
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GENERAL
1. French Foreign Office sees "technical motives" behind Soviet airliner
attack:
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the French Foreign Office, which firstbelieved
that the recent Soviet attack on a French air-
liner was made for political reasons, now agrees
with the US High Commissioner's office in Berlin that the attack, though
deliberate, had "technical motives."
When the Foreign Office spokesman read its
protest note aloud to the Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in Paris in
the absence of the Ambassador, the Counselor was apparently fearful
of accepting the responsibility, and refused the note as "reflecting on
the honor of the Red Ar my."
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FAR EAST
3. Tokyo May Day riot may cause repression of Japanese labor:
Ambassador Murphy in Tokyo reports that while
the hard core of Tokyo's May Day rioters was
obviously 'Communist, he is concerned because
the incident may serve as a pretext for repres-
sive actions threatening the healthy development
of the labor movement.
Non-Communist labor leaders have disclaimed
responsi ii i y or e riot, according to CENCFE. They fear that unless
they clearly disassociate themselves from the Communists, they may
become victims of the growing anti-Communist mood of the population.
Comment: The combined opposition of non-
Communist labor, the press, and Yoshida's political opposition has
until now prevented Diet passage of the Subversive Activities Bill, by
which the Communist Party may be curbed or even outlawed. The various
groups opposing the bill have seen in it the eventual means of their own
suppression.
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NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Iranian security officer fears attempt to assassinate Prime Minister
Mossa-TeTi-.:
The Iranian official charged with security of the
Majlis says that he "has been given clearly to
understand" that the terroristic Fedayan Islam
is planning to assassinate Prime Minister
Mossadeq and other National Front leaders. The security official is
reportedly seeking a transfer, fearing that such an attempt might occur
in his jurisdiction.
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Comment: Mossadeq did not attend the opening
of the seventeenth Majlis on 27 April, presumably because of his earlier
expressed fears of an assassination attempt. The Fedayan Islam boasts
of its record of assassinations. Mossadeq, along with other National
Front leaders, has long been threatened by the organization.
WESTERN EUROPE
7. French threaten to suspend Defense Community negotiations:
seriousness"
A new French-German impasse has arisen in
the European Defense Community conference,
creating a situation which the chief of the French
delegation has declared is "of the utmost
and forces his country to insist that initialing of the treaty
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be postponed. The head of the German delegation has suddenly refused
to accept a limitation of 18 months on the transitional period during
which each of the Defense Community's territorial military organizations
will cover the area of a member country and be under the command of a
national of that country.
While members of the German delegation have
told American Embassy officials in Paris that their chief is prepared to
modify his position, the Embassy advises that, should the French not be
satisfied, "there is no predicting" what drastic action they might take to
allay parliamentary fears of a revived German general staff.
Comment: The German Government is seeking
additional treaty concessions in order to overcome the Bundestag' s
growing opposition to restrictions of German sovereignty in the nearly
completed texts on contractual relations with the Allies.
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