CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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CIA-RDP79T00975A001100190001-8
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4
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December 15, 2016
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December 23, 2003
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1
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April 19, 1953
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REPORT
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9 00 00 000, 19 April 1953 Copy No. CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN DOCUMENT NO, NO CI-IANGE IN rLA:3S. ! C'~C;LACrS!FIr CL^.2S. TO: NL..;C7 R7VI:1'/ D/;''r_ Office of Current Intelligence CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY State Department review completed TOP SECRET Approved For Release 2004/01/16 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO01100190001-8 25X1 Approveff)(O lease 2004/01/16: CIA-RDP79T00975A00110 SUMMARY GENERAL Finland reportedly to request return of territory ceded to USSR (page 3). 25X1 WESTERN EUROPE New French Socialist proposal may remove a major stumbling block to EDC ratification (page 4). 25X1A Approved For Release 2004/01/16 : CIA-RDP79T00975A001100190001-8 Appp59I r GENERAL 1. Finland reportedly to request return of territory ceded to USSR: 25X1 The Finnish Government reportedly plans to approach Moscow for the return of Porkkala and most of the Karelian area ceded to the USSR in 1947. It does not intend to bargain and will offer nothing in exchange, but will stress the importance of such a Soviet gesture in developing normal friendly relations. This proposal has no connection with recent rumors of a possible exchange of territory between the two countries. 25X1 25X1 t e inns feel a recen developments in the Soviet Union may enhance the possibilities of the proposal being considered. Comment: Because of the recent.Soviet "peace overtures" to the We tit is possible that the Finns might try such an approach. It is unlikely that Moscow would grant such a request in view of its general distrust of Finnish motives and its sensitivity over the security of Leningrad. FAR EAST 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/01/16 : CIA-RDP79T00975AO01100190001-8 Approved For Relo 25X1 WESTERN EUROPE 4. New French Socialist proposal may remove a major stumbling block to EDC ratification. 25X1A French Socialist leader Guy Mollet has informed the American Embassy that a "solemn declaration" by the North Atlantic Council affirming the continuing character of NATO would satisfy Socialist reservations on EDC ratification. The Embassy, which sees in this suggestion real progress in French Socialist thinking, feels that the proposed NATO declaration would dissipate French fears of a unilateral British withdrawal from the Continent. Comment: Mollet has consistently main- tained that he could not swing a key Socialist bloc in the French Assembly to back EDC ratification unless Britain assumed addition- al specific defense obligations on the Continent in order to counter- balance the growing strength of West Germany, Mollet is also interested in furthering the development of NATO's political and economic aspects in order that the larger Atlantic community may counterbalance the Catholic influence predominant in the six prospective EDC countries. 25X1A Approved For Release 2004/01/16 : CIA-RDP79T00975A001100190001-8