CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. Satellites returning Greek hostages and prisoners of war (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. French urge Vietnam government to yield to army demands (page 3)n
SOUTH ASIA
3. Afghan foreign minister proposes federation of Afghanistan and
Pakistan (page 4
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GENERAL
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1. Satellites returning Greek hostages and prisoners of war:
are scheduled for return from Czechoslovakia on 25 October.
Repatriates recently returned by Czech-
oslovakia had been well treated, in marked contrast with the
treatment experienced by the approximately 2,500 Greeks returned
earlic!:N this year by Hungary and Rumania. There were also more
men of military age in the group from Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania and
Bulgaria have been repatriating.Greek
hostages and prisoners of war held in
Communist territory since the Greek
civil war, according to the American
army attache in Athens. Bulgaria
has already returned a sizable num-
ber of prisoners, and about 400 hostages
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Comment: Poland has thus far repatriated
no Greeks but is expected to return some soon. The holding by the
Satellites of hostages carried off in 1947-48 has constituted a
major obstacle to easing the tensions between .Greece and the Orbit.
The current repatriations probably are another Soviet effort to
relax tensions in central Europe and the Balkans. Repatriation
presents a serious problem to Athens, since many ofthos..~rccturne
may be trained Communist agents.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
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2. French urge Vietnam government to yield to army demands:
General Ely told Ambassador Heath on
12 October that Hinh was again making
preparations for a coup in order to
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forestall an imminent rapprochement between the government
and the Binh Xuyen gangster organization. Ely told Heath he
would urge Diem to "placate " the army by appointing Hinh's hench-
man, General Xuan, to the Defense Ministry.
Ely insists that the French army cannot
oppose Hinh's actions because the 6,500 French officers and non-
coms now serving with the Vietnamese army "would have their
throats cut" if there were a ,clash between French and Vietnamese
forces.
Comment: The failure of this coup to
materialize-- like,many A ers reported planned during the past
month--suggests that the French are taking an alarmist view of
Hinh's maneuvers in order to pressure the Vietnamese govern-
ment into virtual capitulation to its opponents. Diem's conces-
sions to the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao, and Binh Xuyen were all under-
taken at the insistence of the French, but have failed to elicit
promised French support to bring Hinh into line.
Ely's assertion that the French army is
incapable of preventing a coup is scarcely credible. Saigon .is
under French military control. The Vietnamese army is wholly
dependent on French army services for its arms, ammunition.,
troop pay, and quartermaster supplies.
It is possible Hinh will attempt a coup,
but only if he believes he can be sure the French will not inter-
fere.
SOUTH ASIA
3. Afghan foreign minister jiroposes federation of Afghanistan and
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federation with.Pakistan. He pointed out that the USSR was press-
ing Afghanistan to accept increased economic aid. Naim suggested
Afghan foreign minister Prince Naim
told Ambassador Lodge in an informal
conversation in New York on 9 October
that Afghanistan .could be kept securely
in the free world only by some form of
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a union in .which the two countries would be brought together un-
der one flag, and proposed that the United States offer its good
offices to promote the plan.
The prospect of federation--particularly
if it involved American good offices--would evoke a bitter Soviet
reaction, although this would probably fall short of direct military
intervention. India also would ;probably react strongly against such
a proposal. Neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan would be likely to
agree to federation without a military build-up and a Western guar-
antee of their borders.
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