CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A001200500001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

19 August 1953
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
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1. ICFTU program to contact workers in Orbit countries seen
as a major development (page 3).
NEAR EAST -AFRICA
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5. Arab Legion preparing for Israeli attack in Jerusalem area
(page 5).
Sultan of Morocco's forced abdication believed imminent (page 5)0
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1. ICFTU program to contact workers in Orbit countries seen as a
mayor eve opment:
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nificance:' This program may result in coordinated planning such
as the West Berlin unions were unable to provide during the 17 Tune
riots in East Germany.
establish contact with Satellite workers is "potentially of great sig-
American officials in West Berlin believe
that the announced plan of the International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions to set
up a permanent office in West Berlin and to
Furthermore, it may meet the need for an
international approach to Orbit workers which is not too closely
identified with American initiative. If factionalism can be avoided,
the new ICFTU move could result in an underground free labor move-
ment similar to that which developed during World War II,
Commento Following the visit of a 10-man
delegation to West Berlin last week, plans were announced for an
ICFTU office in Berlin to administer funds intended to "assist" Orbit
workers, Although initial plans called for attempts to organize only
East German workers, West German initiative persuaded the delegates
to expand the program to cover the Soviet Orbit in general, .The new
program is a follow-up to a resolution to aid East German workers
adopted by the ICFTU congress in Stockholm last month.
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5. Arab Legion preparing for Israeli attack in Jerusalem area:
The Arab Legion: is reinforcing its
troops on :Mt. Scows outside Jerusalem
in anticipation of an early Israeli attack,
according to the US embassy in Amman.
The American charge suggests that the
Jordanian "digging in'' in plain view of the Israelis may be calcu-
lated to discourage an attack.
Comment: Jordanian defense preparations
might be used by Israeli army aut orities as an excuse for harassing
and retaliatory actions. However,- the Israeli government's awareness
of inevitable Western opposition to any military action makes it un-
likely that it would authorize an extensive attack against the Arabs.
6. Sultan of Morocco's forced abdication believed imminent:
reversed his previous approval of measures which would cede his
power to the French.
The. American consul in Rabat reports that
the French government will probably at-
tempt to force the sultan of Morocco to
abdicate in the. near future -since he has
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The consul states that the French
Residency General prepared for such action by supporting
El Glaoui in his moves of 13 and 15 August to strip the sultan
of all temporal and religious powers.
Commento It appears that the French
government must now eithe~ts ow El Glaoui completely or
risk upheaval in Morocco and the international censure that would
follow the sultan's ouster.
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