CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2003
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• Publication Date: December 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
Office of Current Intelligence
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6. Iraqi Army blames Communists for violence in recent riots
(page 5).
WESTERN EUROPE
7. Comment on the postponement of West German treaty ratification
(page 6).
8. Crippling protocol to EDC gaining support in French parliament
(page 6).
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6. Iraqi Army blames Communists for violence in recent riots:
attempted to subvert the army,
desi ated targets. The Baghdad military governor believes they
The Iraqi. Army blames the Communists for
the violent character of the recent Baghdad
disturbances, stating that the arrested mob
leaders were known Communists, who carried
bottles of gasoline and maps of the city with
Comment: Reports immediately preceding
the recent disturbances. in rT aq had noted an increase in Communist
activity. Their strength is estimated at .12,000. and their potential
for violence remains high.
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WESTERN EUROPE
7. Comment on the postponement of 'West German treaty ratification.,
On the eve of final Bunde stag action on the
Bonn and Paris treaties, with a substantial majority in support of
the treaties assured, Chancellor Adenauer suddenly decided to post-
pone further parliamentary action until mid-January. He apparently
feared that the opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) would peti-
tion the SPD-dominated first panel of the Constitutional Court for a
ruling on the treaties following the final balloting.
dL:Jerring the Bundestag vote, the Chan-
cellor has effectively blocked such action. He will presumably so
frame his own petition to the court that it will be heard by the second
panel, most of whom are Christian Democrats.
In the la '. week, Bonn politicians have be-
come pessimistic regarding the court's forthcoming advisory opinion
on the treaties which had been requested by Federal President Heuss.
This was partly due to the activities of the vice president of the court
who, iavoring the Social Democratic Party, was successfully influencing
judges to render a decision unfavorable to the government.
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8. Crippling protocol to EDC gaining support in French parliament.,
along the lines proposed recently by the pro-government Paris daily
Le. Figaroo The proposal suggests the addition of a protocol to the
treaty providing that the EDC's executive authority would defer all pol-
icy questions to the unanimous decision of the Council of Ministers
representing the six member states for an unspecified transitional
period. By this means France would remain free to apportion its
military resources between Europe and overseas, areas.
The French delegates to the EDC Interim
Commission in Paris state that an increasing
number of deputies in the National Assembly
now incline toward modifying the EDC treaty
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Comment, This is the first firm indication
that the National Assembly an wt e Pinay government may agree on
a treaty modification that would drastically weaken the character of
EDC and not merely postpone its -implementation.
The suggested protocol would initially de-
prive the EDC of its supranational character and lead to serious delays,
if not inaction, on steps needed to support the NATO build-up.
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