CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. Comment on Vyshinsky's remarks to Japanese delegation in
Moscow (page 3).
2. COCOM agrees on major relaxation of strategic trade. controls
(page 3).
FAR EAST
3. Japanese fishing interests threaten to challenge Rhee line (page 4).
SOUTH ASIA
5. Ceylon unlikely to join Southeast Asian security pact (page 5).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
6. Oil consortium agreement. with Iran appears near . (page 6).
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"~%11.A Comment on Vyshinsky's remarks to Japanese delegation in Moscow:
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Soviet deputy foreign minister Vyshinsky's
statement to a Japanese Diet delegation that
the USSR hopes to establish formal diplomatic
relations with Japan "as soon as possible" is
the most specific high-level Soviet pronounce-
ment of Moscow's intentions to improve rela-
tions with Japan.
Since Stalin's death, the Soviet Union has
returned more than 1,400 of an estimated 14,500 Japanese prisoners,
thereby making a gesture toward improved relations. It has recently
been using economic and cultural approaches as means of gradually en-
couraging the Japanese to move toward an accommodation with the Orbit.
Japanese Foreign Ministry officials, when
advised of Vyshinsky's remarks, reiterated that a peace treaty was a
prerequisite for expanding relations. There are indications, however,
that Japan is reappraising its foreign policy in the light of general Asian
developments and that sentiment for loosening ties with the United States
is growing.
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Revisions in the international export control
lists agreed on in the COCOM review of the
past three months will go into effect on 16
August. The controls on trade with Commu-
nist China will not be changed at this time, but will be discussed at an
early Consultative Group meeting.
Controls over exports of merchant ships
could not be agreed on by the Consultative Group and will be considered
again on 7 September. Although all COCOM countries are committed
to improved transit trade controls, a definite deadline for adoption has
not been set. Several delegates stressed that their governments would
be reluctant to adopt such controls unless they were applied to all
COCOM members.
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Comment.- The decisions of the Consulta-
tive Group will reduce the number of items on the export control lists
by about 50 percent. In addition several items will be subject to less
stringent controls.
The adoption of improved transit trade
controls has long been blocked by several COCOM countries, and their
commitment to adopt them is apparently not firm.
FAR EAST
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Japanese fishing interests threaten to challenge Rhee line'.
Japanese fishing interests warned the Ameri-
can embassy in Tokyo on 20 July that some-
thing must be done quickly to settle the
dispute with South Korea over the Rhee line.
They pointed out that President Rhee's visit to Washington was an oppor-
tune time for the United States to intervene in their behalf. At the
same time, they are planning to launch full-scale operations within the
Rhee line, despite the risks, and will call on Japanese naval forces for
protection.
Comment: This appears to be primarily a
threat =designed to hasten American mediation. The Japanese govern-
ment opposes any resort to force, preferring to wait until Japanese
military, power is sufficient to impress the Koreans with the desira-
bility of finding a solution.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry, meanwhile,
speculates that General Hull's return to Washington during Rhee's
visit may indicate among other things an American attempt to improve
Japanese-Korean relations.
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5. Ceylon unlikely to join Southeast Asian security pact,
The present temper of the Ceylonese press,
parliament and public opinion makes it un-
likely that Ceylon would join a collective
security pact for Southeast Asia at this time,
according to Ambassador Crowe, Moreover, Ceylon's attitude toward
the pact would probably be neutral rather than favorable, and the possi-
bility that it might join later would depend largely on the attitudes of the
other Colombo powers. The government itself, however, is "not un-
sympathetic."
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Comment Of the five Colombo powers--India,
Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma aIndonesia--only Pakistan can be expected
to adhere initially to a Western-sponsored collective security pact.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
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6. Oil consortium agreement with Iran appears near:
The British Foreign Office understands
that chief consortium negotiator Page hopes
shortly to take to London an aide me moire
embodying the points of agreement between
e consortium ana a ranian, government, according to Ambassador
Aldrich. If approval by the principals of the eight companies involved
is forthcoming, Page will return to Tehran to initial the document.
Announcement of the consortium-Iran agree-
ment will be made after Pages return to Tehran. Following that, the
agreement will be put in proper form for signing and presentation to
the Majlis after it reconvenes on 24 August.
Comment: All phases of the oil agreement.
appear to be on the verge of completion except for the separate British-
Iranian compensation negotiations.
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