CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A001700140001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. Uruguay may challe
nge
!Guatemalan credentials
in UN (page 3).
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3. Laotians bitter aver
4~ .Iranian parliamenta
ment (page 5).
5~ Austria read to ace
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SOUT~IEAST ASIA
hai intrigues (page 4) o
EAR EASE` -AFRICA
committee delays approv
WESTERN EUROPE
t Soviet. offer to renew tr
al of oil agree
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LATIN AMERICA
10 Qctober may be mark
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.GENERAL
Uruguay may challenge Guatemalan credentials in UN:
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Uruguay's permanent UN representative,
Rodriguez Fabregat, plans to challenge
the credentials of the Guatemalan dele-
gation at the 12 :October meeting of the
Creden#:ials Committee, according to
a report reaching. the American delegation. .Fabregat allegedly
intends to charge that the Guatemalan .delegation is not qualified
to sit in the General Assembly because its credentials were is-
sued by a .regime which is not representative of the Guatemalan
people,
Ambassador Lodge- comments that such
a move would offer the USSR an ideal opportunity to draw an
analogy between this and the Chinese representation issue.,
Comment: The 6 October meeting of
.the Credentials .Committee--wise decisions are subject to
General Assembly approval--way adjourned until 12 .October at
the request of Fabregat, who said he intended to discuss the
credentials of "certain states" In the .General Assembly Uruguay,
as well- as Argentina and Ecuador, has criticized the Security
Council's handling of an appeal from the former Arbenz govern-
ment in fruat.emala~
While eventual approval of the
Guatemalan delegation's credentials can be expected, an air-
ing of the issue would almost certainly arouse some criticism
of the United States :,
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3o Laotians bitter over Thai intriguese
increase its influence and perhaps reduce Laos to vassala.geo He
.said his government knew the names of Thai police .officers who
sheltered the assassins of Laos' defense minister both before and
after the 18 September crime o The, Thai government had not yet
answered a request that the killers be turned over to Laoso
The Laotian premier told the American
.minister in Vientiane on 6 October that
the Thai government seemed determined
to stir up trouble in Laos in order to
The premier said if Thai behavior does
not change, he would retaliate by sending armed bands across
the harder and stirring up the 6,U00,000 Laotians in Thaflando
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...Comment: Laotian. officials claim to
have evidence that agents o~Laoti~an prince Fetsarath, who. has
lived in 'Thailand since 1946, carried out the 18 September kill-
ing with Thai government support.
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ATEAR EAST -AFRICA
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4. .Iranian .parliamentary .committee delays approval of oil agree-
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a.asuaced production levels after the third. year, according to
-Ambassador Iiendersono The committee has requested .clarifi-
cation of production .intentions from the consortiumo The oppo-
sition .can base its most effective objections against ratification
on the uncertainty of long-range production. -
The Iranian mixed parliamentary com-
mittee charged with examination of the
oil agreement is seriously troubled by
the agreement's .failure to provide for
Henderson says the parliament "quite
possibly" will n?t ratify the agreement until the Iast week in
Qctober. He reports, moreover, that he and the British ambas-
sador are increasingly concerned over the way .things are going
in Tehran4 Henderson adds that the situation is not one of bar-
gaining but. of ?'great political de:licacyo'
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The Austrian government desires to
accept the Soviet proposal of 12 August
for -new Austrian treaty- talks, but to
point out that the conclusion of a .treaty
and. the with- rawa o occupation forces are inseparable.
French and British officials seem to
feel that. such a reply, which the Austrians wish to deliver to
Moscow on 12 October, would be acceptable to their governments,
according to the, American .embassy in Vienna.
Foreign Minister Figl believes the note
should be sent promptly to take advantage of the favorable atmos-
phere following the successful London meeting and to counter
rumors that Austria is willing to sign a treaty without the com-
plete .evacuation of foreign troops Fig1 also believes that Molo-
tov's 5 October proposal for the evacuation of occupation forces
from Germany justifies an Austrian demand for evacuation.
.Comment: The United States has
opposed an Austrian treaty`s ch fails to provide for the with-
drawal of all occupation farces.
Moscow might reply to the proposed
Austrian note by expressing a willingness to reduce its occupa-
tion forces sharply. Soviet officials in Vienna .have already
hinted at this The .idea of a settlement on such terms has ap-
parently already been rejected in Austrian thinking, however.
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ViJESTERN EUROPE
5. .Austria .ready to accept Soviet offer to renew treaty talks;
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7o Iionduras elections on 10 October may be marked by disturbances:
The American embassy in Tegucigalpa
believes there may be un-co-ordinated
local disturbances, with some danger
to American citizens, during and af-
ter the 10 October presidential and
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congressional elections in Hondurase The embassy does not
expect any organised hostilities, howevero
Comment: Election frauds by any one
of the three contending parties may well provoke violence, but
no attempt to seize the government by force is expectedo
~f, as is probable, none of the three
presidential candidates receives an absolute majority, Congress
will choose between the-.two polling the most votes. Current es-
timates give-.the moderate Reformist Party, which has named
General Abraham Williams its candidate .for president, a .slight
edge but less- than a .majority in the Congress, with the Communist-
infiltrated Liberal Party running. a .close seeondq Strong political
pressures might then force a ]Eeformist-Liberal coalition in favor
of Williams against the Nationalist Party's candidate, ex-dictator
Carias
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