CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A001100350001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 8, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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8 May 1953
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Department review completed
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
-Comment on new Communist proposal in the Korean talks (page 3).
British views regarding UN appeal on Laos (page 3).
WESTERN EUROPE
De Gaulle's break with followers may delay Mayer's downfall
(page 5).
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GENERAL
1. Comment on new Communist proposal in the Korean talks:
In their new proposal for settling the POW
issue, the Communists, while moving toward a cease-fire, still appear
determined not to accept any arrangement which would result in failure
to repatriate a substantial number of prisoners.
The 7 May proposal offers certain compromises,
but does not alter the Communist position on the critical point regarding
the disposition of prisoners unwilling to return after Communist "explana-
tions" to them. The Communists continue to propose that the fate of these
prisoners be decided by a political conference..
Should the United Nations reject this proposal,
the Communists eventually might accept as an alternative the disposition
of the unwilling by the five-nation commission, which includes India.
2. , British views regarding UN appeal on Laos:
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a er a s. Otherwise, the Communists are likely to claim
plier of war materials.'
that the struggle in Indochina is a civil war over which the United Nations
has no jurisdiction.
The British Foreign Office believes that an
appeal to the United Nations on Laos should
be extended to embrace all Indochina and
should specify Communist China as the sup-
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 third of the Gaullist deputies will remain in opposition. An important
number may shift toward the Independents, and others are expected to
join the Radical Socialists, the Popular Republicans, and the Socialists.
Comment: The dissolution of the Gaullist
parliamentary group removes the strongest rallying point for non-
Communist critics of close French cooperation with United States
policy. While it makes more certain the support of some Gaullist
deputies for the EDC, no great change in government policy on key
issues can be expected before the national congresses expected next
month.
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5. De Gaulle's break with followers may delay Mayer's downfall:
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Communist parties vie for the deputies just cut adrift.
The Embassy believes that no more than one
As a result of the break between General de
Gaulle and his followers, a showdown in the
French Parliament over Premier Mayer's
program may be delayed while the non-
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