CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A000900290001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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2. Chou En-lai seeks transfer of POW's from American to "neutral"
control (page 3).
SUMMARY
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FAR EAST
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
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4, British considering alternatives for Suez base page 5 .
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FAR EAST
2. Chou En-lai seeks transfer of POW's from American to "neutral"
control:
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Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai
the "important
step" in solving the prisoner of war issue
is the release of the POW's from American
control. Chou is said to be convinced that all prisoners held under
"neutral" control would "gradually" be repatriated.
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Comment. Soviet and Satellite spokesmen
in the UN General Assembly have recently taken the line that the
outstanding issue regarding the POW's is the American screening
and forcible detention of the prisoners rather than Communist insist-
ence on total repatriation.
Nevertheless Soviet Foreign Minister
Vyshinsky, in his most recent public statement on this issue, on 10
November proposed the creation of a commission which would "pro-
mote repatriation of all prisoners. "
4. British considering alternatives for Suez base-.
Strategic base sites at Basra, at Haifa, and
at Alexandretta in Turkey are being con-
sidered by British military planners as the
possible alternative to Fayid, the present
uez base. Fayid wou d probably be used only for workshops and
ammunition dumps.
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American Ambassador Caffer.y agrees with
the British contention that Fayid is perhaps not the ideal site from
which to oppose Soviet military expansion in the Near East.
Comment, The three choices under consi-
deration reflect a sharp slh-iTt in British military thinking. Britain
has in the past insisted on maintaining the Suez Canal base because
it was considered beyond the area which Soviet forces might overrun
in the event of war.
Alexandretta has an excellent natural
harbor, while the port of Haifa would need substantial expansion.
Britain probably would encounter political difficulties in establishing
a strategic base in Israel or Iraq.
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