CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A000900250001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved Fceleas~0 0/T~09-000900250001-4
25X1
25X1
8 November 1952
spy NO. 57
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
25X1
25X1
DOCUMENT NO. ;
NO CHANGE IN CLASS.
0 RECLASSIFIED
CLASS. CHANGED TO. TB 25X1
NEXT REVIEW DATE:
T
AI
J
7Q
H: 1~!H REVIEWER:
office of Current Intelligence DATE: /1
State Department review
completed
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
25X1
Approved For Rele
25X1
 Approv
25X1A
SUMMARY
SOVIET "UNION
25X1
1. Control of new Presidium by former Politburo members indicated
(page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
25X1
3. Opposition party leaders offer to support Magsaysay for Philippine
presidency (page 4).
SOUTH ASIA
4. Ratification of Sino-Ceylonese trade agreement is delayed (page 4).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
6. Arab League postpones decision to break Arab-German commercial
relations (page 5).
25X1
Approve
25X1A
 Approve
25X1A
SOVIET UNION
25X1A
25X1
1. Control of new Presidium by former Politburo members indicated.,
Portraits of the former Politburo members
who are now in the Presidium are decorating
Moscow buildings in honor of the 35th
Anniversary of the October revolution.
There are no pictures o other members of the new Presidium, nor
of A. A. Andreyev, Politburo member who was not elected to the
Presidium, and A. N. Kosygin, former full member of the Politburo
who was reduced to candidate in the Presidium.
Comment., The display this year of pictures
of former Politburo members supports the belief that the responsibility
for policy decisions will continue to rest on the "Politburox' within the
framework of the new Presidium.
-3-
25X1A
Approveq'
 Appro\
25X1A
3. Opposition party leaders offer to support Magsaysay for Philippine
presidency:
SOUTHEAST ASIA
25X1A
Philippine Defense Secretary Magsaysay
is reliably reported to have met with leading
members of the opposition Nacionalista Party
who have promised to support him should
he agree to seek the presidency on their ticket.
The American Embassy in Manila observes
that if Magsaysay should agree, President Quirino would almost
certainly learn of it and dismiss him from the cabinet. His career
would then be at the mercy of the opposition party leaders, who could
easily repudiate any agreement they had made.
25X1
SOUTH ASIA
25X1A
4. Ratification of Sino-Ceylonese trade agreement is delayed-.
Ceylonese cabinet action on ratification of
the five-year rice-rubber trade agreement
with China is likely to be deferred until
after the Commonwealth Prime Ministers
meeting which egins in 'London in late November, according to
Ceylonese officials.
Five of the 14 cabinet ministers now oppose
ratification and the Prime Minister is wavering. The American
Embassy in Colombo reports, however, that the cabinet members
who oppose ratification feel they could not explain to the public any
rejection of the agreement.
Approvo
25X1A
 Approve
25X1A
NEAR EAST-'AFRICA
Comment: The weight of evidence. still
favors eventual ratification. Commonwealth nations are unlikely to
apply pressure on Ceylon during the London meeting, where the matter
probably will not officially arise.
25X1
25X1A
6. Arab League postpones decision to break Arab-German commercial
relations:
The Arab League has postponed a decision
to break: off commercial relations with
Bonn over the Israeli-German reparations
agreement and has turned the question over
to a sub-committee.
Approves
25X1A
 Approveld For Release 2003/10/22 : CIA-RDP79T00975A0009QO250001-4
25X1A
General Nagib told Ambassador Caffery
that the majority of League delegates had asked for a cessation of
commercial relations with West Germany but that he had suggested
postponing a decision until he could consult his ministers of finance
and commerce. He added that he is in a "difficult position" and
hopes to avoid any drastic action.
Comment- Nagib's "difficult position"
probably stems from the fact that his present moderation contrasts
sharply with his original summoning of the Arab League to discuss a
rupture of Arab-West German relations.
The League has apparently been sobered
by the financial and commercial consequences of an Arab-German
25X1 rupture and thus may avoid a break in relations.
6 -
25X1A
Approved For Release 2003/10/22 : CIA-RDP79T00975A00090OR50001-4
 25X1 Approved For Release 2003/10/22 : CIA-RDP79T00975A000900250001-4
Approved For Release 2003/10/22 : CIA-RDP79T00975A000900250001-4