CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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AUTH: HR 70.2
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Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DIA and DOS review(s) completed.
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SUMMARY
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/ SOUTHEAST ASIA
kr Taipei seen hindering evacuation of troops from Burma (page 3).
SOUTH ASIA
3. Afghanistan may be willing to cease Pushtoonistan campaign
(page 4).
NEAR EAST. - AFRICA
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Zahedi states requirements for friendly Soviet-Iranian relations
(page 5).
EASTERN EUROPE
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Yugoslavia believed ready to abandon all previous proposals for
Trieste settlement (page 6).
WESTERN EUROPE
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8. Reports of Italian troop movements toward Trieste held erroneous
(page 7).
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
24 Taipei seen hindering evacuation of troops from Burma-
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The Chinese Nationalist representative to
the four-power committee in Bangkok has
proposed deleting from the evacuation plan
now under consideration the names of places
in Burma to be turned over to the Burmese army.
The American embassy in Bangkok comments
that this development appears to implicate the Nationalist government
in a maneuver to stall or scuttle the evacuation effort, since its repre-
sentative admittedly acted on specific instructions. The embassy fur-
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that General Li Mi intends to retain his Mong Hsat headquarters an
that Taipei plans only a token evacuation.
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Comment- This report is consistent with
other indications of Nationalist intentions to remain in Burma and is
contrary to recent press reports that implementation of an agreed
evacuation plan is imminent. It also contradicts the Nationalist posi-
tion that Li Mi alone is responsible for obstructing the evacuation.
SOUTH ASIA
3.. Afghanistan may be willing to cease Pushtoonistan campaign:
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The Afghan government allegedly is willing
to cease further agitation for an independent
Pushtoonistan and to recognize the disputed
Pushtoon tribal area between Afghanistan
and Pakistan as belonging officially to the latter,
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1 Afghan willingness, however, is
contingent upon finding a face-saving formula, such as giving the tribal
territory a separate name.
Comment: These new suggestions for ending
the most -important dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan represent
a retreat from the usual Afghan position demanding public Pakistani
recognition that a problem exists and insisting that the tribal area
should be made independent.
It may also be significant that in August the
only independent Afghan paper, in which the Afghan prime minister
reportedly is interested, ceased printing Pushtoonistan propaganda,
which usually constitutes the bulk of Afghan news.
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5. Zahedi states requirements for friendly Soviet-Iranian relations:
and friendly relations with the Soviet Union. Such relations would be
possible only if the USSR refrained from interfering in Iranian internal
affairs, particularly from giving material and moral support to the
Tudeh and other subversive organizations. He added that the USSR
must treat Iran as an equal and that relations between the two countries
must be maintained on a' basis of mutual advantage.
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On 31 August Prime Minister Zahedi told
Ambassador Henderson that, in reply to an
inquiry from the Soviet embassy, he had
stated that Iran wishes to maintain normal
Comment: The fact that Zahedi informed
the American embassy promptly and in such detail regarding his inten-
tions is a good indication of his desire to cooperate with the United
States.
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7. Yugoslavia believed ready to abandon all previous proposals for
Trieste settlement.
n the basis of talks with Yugoslav
undersecretary for foreign affairs Bebler
on 31 August, the American, British, and
French chiefs of mission in Belgrade agree
that Yugoslavia intends to abandon its previous proposals for a solu-
tion of the Trieste problem and to demand the return of the entire
Free Territory with the possible exception of the city of Trieste.
Yugoslavia's intention would be to offset the official Italian position
calling for a return of the entire territory to Italy.
The three Western diplomats believe that
Yugoslavia actually wants a Trieste settlement through some form
of internationalization of the territory with heavy guarantees for the
rights of the Slovene population. In the talks, Bebler stated that
earlier Yugoslav proposals for a condominium would have to be
revised, implying that this idea had not yet been wholly rejected by
Belgrade.
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Comment.- In his 30 August conversation
bler indicated that in his 6 September
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speech Tito will attack the Allied Military Government policy in
Trieste "which was permitting the Italianization of the zone," will
give assurances that Yugoslavia intends to remain calm and adopt
no adventurous and unilateral measures, and will offer a new pro-
posal for the settlement of the Trieste question.
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8. Reports of Italian troop movements toward. Trieste held erroneous:
on 1 September told the American army
attache in Rome that there had been no
movement of Italian troops in connection
with the Trieste dispute. He added that
press Sbservers had probably been misled by the movement of
units returning to their barracks after summer maneuvers.
Comment.- This report suggests that
Prime Minister Pella was u tng when he told an American
embassy official on 31 August that one Italian regiment was being
dispatched to Monfalcone, on the Gulf of Trieste.
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