CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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CIA-RDP79T00975A001200340001-0
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5
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December 15, 2016
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December 24, 2003
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1
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July 31, 1953
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REPORT
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~~f~.///~//~i0~~dr~v~~~~ase 2C(~ 1~1'1~~~19T0 S 1. July 19 53 L~~ I ~ / 25X Gopy Na. CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN ~ecunr:=!~r rao. NO Cii.=1,"JG~~ !nJ .'"..L11`~'S. -~=--' 25X1% 25X1 %, Office of Current Intelligence CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY //////////////// tl'?"~~ %////////////// 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/01/16 :CIA-RDP79T00975A001200340001-0 25X1A Approved SU1VlMARY GENERAL `~,X!' Comment on Soviet note to Austria (page 3). NEAR. EAST -AFRICA 2. Syria allegedly supports Arab refugee raids into Israel (page 3). WESTERN EUROPE 3. East German manifesto believed to show Communist weakness (page 4). LATIN AMERICA ~. Land reform decree threatens violence in Bolivia (page 4). 25X1A 25X1A 31 Tu1y 53 Approved For Release 2004/01/16 :CIA-RDP79T00975A001200340001-0 1. Comment on Soviet note to Austria: 25X1A GENERAL 25X1A Approved Fo The 29 July Soviet note to Austria repeats familiar attacks on the abbreviated treaty and does not alter Moscow's position. It ~eem~ designed chiefly to create dissension in the Vest by asking Austria to reject the abbreviated draft. The Kremlin's decision to send. the note to . Austria rather than reply to the Western note of 12 June., suggests that recent Austrian demarches have encouraged the USSR to seek more direct contact with Vienna. This bilateral approach is not likely to further an Austrian settlement but serves to undercut Allied-Austrian relations. The almost simultaneous announcement that the L7SSR will no longer require Austrian compensation for occupation costs is the most important concession the Kremlin has yet made to the Austrians. Although the actual sums involved are relatively small, the Soviet move is likely to have a considerable impact on the Austrians and result in popular support for the Soviet position. NEAR EAST -AFRICA Syria allegedly supports Axab refugee raids into Israele 25X1A 31 July 53 Approved For Release 2004/01/16 :CIA-RDP79T00975A001200340001-0 25X1 25X1A Approved Fo 25X1 yr an c a or is a an a ex-M ti rear a an un ers an ng permitting direction from Syria of para- military raids, Cammento Such activity would be consonant with Shishakli'sbelligeren'tattitude toward Israel and would strengthen hfs domestic political position. Knowledge of such .Syrian activity would invite retaliation by Israel and preclude an early settlement of the frontier issueo WESTERN EUROPE v East German manifesto believed. to show Communist weaknesso 25X1A~ American officials in Berlin see indications of party weakness in the 28 July policy decla- ration of the East German Communist Central Committee following its analysis of the 17 June demonstrationso They predict that the statement will fail in its purpose of creating popular support for two reasons. It Insults the workers by asserting that the demonstrations were generated by fascist agents and not spontaneous. Furthermore it reasserts the basic correctness of past party policy, admitting only that the tempo .was too fast, thereby dampening hopes for fundamental economic or political changese LATIN AMERICA 4. Land reform decree threatens violence in Boliviae 25X1A~ 25X1 the Bolivian cabinet has sp over a new land reform decree which is scheduled to be issued -4- 25X1A 31 July 53 Approved For Release 2004/01/16 :CIA-RDP79T00975A001200340001-0 25X1A Approved F? on 2 Augusto .The right wing of the governing Nationalist Revolutionary Moy~ement violently- opposes the decreed Commento Many right-wing members of the government party are landownersa Although the decree ~eli'ortedly will call for a gradual, orderly process of reform with compensation for expropriated lands, the controversy over it may bring to a head vartous intraparty dispexteso Meanwhile the powerful Bolivian Labor Con- federation last week passed a resolution demanding land nationalization without compensation, and organization of the Indians into collectives to work the landed estates, If the agrarian syndicates,.. some of which are led by Communists, follow this line rather than the expected milder government proposals, serious civil disturbances may resulto 25X1A 31 July 53 Approved For Release 2004/01/16 :CIA-RDP79T00975A001200340001-0