CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A001700210001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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17 October 1954
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Viet Minh cadres reported remaining in Cambodia (page 3)0
EASTERN EUROPE
3. Comment on release of purged Hungarian Communists (page 4).
WESTERN EUROPE
4. Comment on the London strike situation (page 5).
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Viet Minh cadres reported remaining in Cambodia:
The chief of the French military mission
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is leaving large numbers of troops in
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Cambodia to serve as cadres among the
populace. He has told the American
ambassador that the number of troops
being evacuated is falling far below the
official Viet Minh estimates, and that
the evacuees are poorly armed.
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According to reports reaching the Ameri-
can army attache in Phnom Penh, the total number evacuated by
the deadline of 20 October may turn out to be less than 3,000, in
contrast to a generally anticipated figure of 5,000 or more.
Comment: At the time of the cease-fire,
approximately 8,000 re r 'and irregular Viet Minh troops were
disposed in small
units throughout central and southern Cambodia. The new reports
further substantiate earlier indications that the Viet Minh intends
to retain its military nucleus in Cambodia by concealing arms and
leaving underground cadres.
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EASTERN EUROPE
. Comment on release of purged Hungarian Communists:
Istvan .Kovacs, first secretary of the
Budapest committee of the Communist
Party, announced on 13 October that the
party has been reinstating members who were "falsely" impris-
oned by former leaders of the Hungarian security police. This
confirms earlier reports that the regime is releasing former
officials purged on grounds of "national deviation."
The Hungarian press announced recently
the return to public office of ex-politburo member and minister of
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interior Kadar, and there have been reports that former foreign
minister Kallai and other officials purged in 1950 and 1951 have
been released from prison.
This apparent reversal of policy toward
"national deviationists" is an attempt to obtain greater popular
and party support for the regime's current policies, by. creating
the.impression that Hungarian national interests are being given
priority over the interests of the USSR.
Kovac's charge that the Hungarian. secu-
rity forces were responsible for these "false" arrests bears a
marked resemblance to the reversal of the doctors' plot in the
USSR last year, and is no. doubt designed to give the public a
greater sense of security from arbitrary arrest.
WESTERN EUROPE
4. Comment on the London strike situation:
25X1 A Complete paralysis of the port of London
and indications that the unofficial strike
may spread to other British ports has
led the government to intervene in order
to maintain essential supplies and services. If the strike is not
settled by 19 October when Parliament opens, Minister of Labor
Monckton will announce .that troops will be brought in on 21 Octo-
ber to unload ships.
There is growing evidence that the work
stoppage is directed by the same political agitators and Commu-
nist elements which have been able to exploit legitimate economic
grievances for political purposes several times since the war.
Arthur Deakin, head of the. Transport and General Workers' union,
to which most of the dock and bus strikers belong, believes that
the wildcat strike is.in retaliation for his support of German re-
armament at the recent Labor Party conference, and that it is a
general effort to stir up trouble over the nine-power agreements
on West Germany.
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The Conservative government had previ-
ously avoided intervention on the advice of Deakin who hoped that
the strike would peter out. Monckton conveyed the government's
plans to Alfred Robens, Minister of Labor in the Attlee government,
who offered no objections.
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