CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
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I. USSR reportedly approaches India to collaborate in atomic field
(page 3),
3. Comment on personnel changes in Chinese Communist regime
(page 4).
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5. Comment on rumored resignation of Ceylon's prime minister
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British outline "final position" on Anglo-Egyptian settlement
(page 6),
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GENERAL
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1. USSR reportedly approaches India to collaborate in atomic field:
National Resources Ministry and member of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
The Soviet Union has proposed collabora-
tion with India in various scientific fields
including atomic energy, according to Dr.
S. S. Bhatnagar, secretary of India's
Bhatnagar told the American minerals
attache in New Delhi that he opposes the suggestion because he
wants to cooperate with the US in this field. He also doubts that
collaboration with the USSR would be "a two-way street," and he
feels that the proposal is "untimely, perhaps purposely so."
Comment: In view of India's policy of
neutrality, it is unlikely ti t the Soviet proposal will be accepted,
Indian Atomic Energy Commission chairman Homi F. Bhabha, who
is reportedly Communist-inclined, might press for collaboration
with the USSR, however.
This approach to India, together with the
invitations to the recent Budapest congress of the World Federation
of Scientific Workers and the Soviet bid to Japanese scientists to
visit the USSR, reflects Moscow's increased efforts to contact non-
Orbit scientists. In recent months, more Soviet delegations have
participated actively in non-Communist scientific conferences.
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Comment on personnel changes in Chinese Communist regime:
I The personnel changes announced by
the Peiping regime on 19 September may reflect Communist
China's numerous economic difficulties or may represent the
extension of the continuing party reorganization into the central
committee.
The two officials concerned, the minis-
ter of finance and the vice minister of posts and telegraph, have
not been identified in new jobs and may have been made scape-
goats for the weaknesses of their ministries, which like most
ministries have been publicly criticized by party leaders during
1953. The Finance Ministry's record in stabilizing the regime's
budget during the Korean war was excellent, however.
The Chinese Communist Party has been
in process of reorganization since 1951, with about one in ten
members being dropped. Although the purge is not known to have
reached the central committee level, the position of several party
leaders has appeared uncertain in recent months.
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5. Comment on rumored resignation of Ceylon's prime minister.
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Senanayake of Ceylon is about to resign because of ill-health
may be rumors circulated by his opposition. The prime minis-
ter and his United National Party control at least 69 of the 101
parliamentary seats and he can accordingly maintain his position.
Should he choose to resign, however, such action would bring no
major changes in the policy of the conservative Ceylonese govern-
ment.
The Communists and leftists who were
behind the recent riots over reduction of food subsidies are not
sufficiently strong to constitute a threat.
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6. - British outline "final position" on Anglo-Egyptian settlement:
last seven years, of which 18 months would be allowed for the
evacuation of troops. Four thousand British technicians would
then remain at the base for three years and a smaller number for
another two and a half years.
The British government has requested
full American support for its "final
position" on the future of the Suez Canal
base. The agreement with Egypt would
The base would be made available to
Britain in case of a UN action to resist aggression or of an out-
side attack on any signatory of the Arab Mutual Security Pact.
Immediate British-Egyptian consultations would be held if any
such attack were threatened, or in the event of an attack on
Turkey or Iran.
In addition Britain insists that the agree-
ment contain a clause regarding freedom of transit of the Suez
Canal.
Comment. The duration question had
been the main point not settlec, in the current informal Anglo-
Egyptian talks. Cairo has announced that a six-year agreement
is the longest it feels able to sign. Furthermore, the last-minute
introduction of the new issue of freedom of transit of the canal may
cause the Egyptians to balk.
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