CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 2, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
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Comment on softening of Greek attitude on Cyprus (page
FAR EAST
3. Japanese delegation back from Peiping favors Locarno-type Far
East treaty (page 4),
2.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
4, French said to have obtained economic guarantees from Viet
Minh (page 5).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Comment on outbreak of terrorist activity in Algeria (page 5).
6. Mendes-France sees no ready solution for Moroccan impasse
.(page 6).
LATE ITEM
8. Comment on Chinese Communist bombing of Tachen Islands
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2. Comment on softening of Greek attitude on. Cyprus:
A significant softening of the Greek posi-
tion on the .Cyprus issue is indicated by
a recent statement of Alexis Kyrop., act-
ing chief of the Greek UN delegation.
Kyrou told Ambassador todge that Greece
wanted the General Assembly to pass a
"very mild resolution" affirming the Cypriot
people's right to self-determination.
Athens, despite the continuing bitter offi-
cial and editorial comment, apparently is reappraising its position
in the light of the American attitude. The Greek, government evi-
dently considers that Washington's attitude;will be the determining
factor as far as UN action on.the Cyprus item is concerned.
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British foreign secretary Eden believes
that Greek discouragement over recent developments at the UN
concerning Cyprus has improved the situation from the British view-
point. The American embassy in London thinks Britain might ac-
cept a UN formula in which London would commit itself to continue
discussions with representative Cypriots aimed at establishing a
constitution that would permit increased self-government,
Greece is probably ready to agree to
whatever face-saving formula Britain would accept, but a residue
of ill will is certain to remain toward Britain and especially
toward the United States.
FAR EAST
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3., Japanese delegation back from Peiping favors Locarno-type Far
East treaty:
Communist China, and the USSR, a party official has informed
the American embassy in Tokyo. This would be followed by peace
.treaties and bilateral nonaggression pacts between Japan and Com-
munist China and the USSR.
Adoption of these recommendations would,
in the embassy's judgment, represent a major leftward shift in
party policy and provide at least a theoretical basis for increased
co-operation with the Left Socialists.
A Japanese Right Socialist delegation
just back from Peiping is expected to
urge its party to work for a Locarno-type
treaty between Japan, the United States,
Comment: The delegation included Eki
Sone, principal author of the party's present foreign policy plank
and hitherto a warm advocate of close co-operation with the free
world. He and his colleagues have apparently abandoned their
earlier idea of a UN-sponsored collective security pact to coun-
ter possible Communist aggression and now paint a picture of a
peaceful Communist China bent on internal reconstruction.,
With Yoshida's conservative opponents,
as well as the leftists and the moderates, all beating the drums
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for a new China policy, the prime minister is being placed under
increasing pressure. In view of Yoshida's weakening political
position, he may be forced on his .return to Japan to make substan-
tial concessions on this popular issue in order .to stay in power.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
4. French said to have.obtained economic guarantees from Viet. Minh:
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He added that South Vietnam probably will be "finished" if a gov-
ernmental reorganization is not carried out soon.
member of Sainteny's mission has been
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stating that-South-Vi Vietnam will ose e 1 elections, and that
the only practical solution appeared to be "a compromise solution
with Ho;'
secretary of the Frenc minister for the Associated States. The
secretary told American officials on 29 October that he does not
thi k it ossible to have a Communist state within the French Union.
The Sainteny mission to North. Vietnam
has succeeded in obtaining important
economic guarantees in writing from Ho
Chi Minh according to the executive
Comment: The. Viet Minh may be at-
tempting to exploit the continuing political impasse in .South Vietnam
by encouraging the French to believe that they can do business with
the Communists. Guarantees permitting continuation of the French
economic and cultural influence in North Vietnam would make Paris
increasingly disinclined to implement a strong policy in support of
Diem and South Vietnam.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
Comment on outbreak of terrorist activity in Algeria:
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The outbreak of carefully planned and
executed terrorism in widely separated
locations reported in Algeria on 1 No-
vember may open a. new chapter in the
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current extremist activity in North Africa. This is the first
major terrorist activity in Algeria since mid-1945, when the
assassination of settlers led to the leveling of several native vil-
lages by the French air force in retaliation.
The current attacks may have been organ-
ized by the quasi-military Tunisian fellagha now operating in an
area adjacent to Algeria. It is more likely, however, that they
were planned and executed by Algerian extremists, either nation-
alists or Communists.
Paris, as well as local French authori-
ties, fully aware of the explosive North African milieu, can be
expected to take adequate repressive action. Some 60,000 troops
and gendarmerie are available in Algeria, and late reports indi-
cate some additional shock troops have been alerted to move in
from France
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6. Mendes-France sees no ready solution for Moroccan impasse:
Premier Mendes-France told Ambassa-
dor Dillon in Paris on 30 October that he
saw no immediate way out of the impasse
with Moroccan nationalists. Nationalist
feeling over the dynastic issue, he said, was too aroused to be
calmed even by dramatic economic and social reforms. The
premier stated that he favors the election of-,a new sultan, but
that he is informed former sultan Mohamed ben Youssef is not
yet amenable to this solution.
Comment: In view of the fact that in-
cidents of violence have been increasing steadily in Morocco since
the deposition of the former sultan in August 1953 and now occur
at a rate of.some 20 a week, Mendes-France would seem overcom-
placent in his implication that France can bide its time,
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8. Comment on Chinese Communist bombing of Tachen.Islands:
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Nine Chinese Communist TU-2 piston
light bombers, nine MIG-151s, and four
LA-11 piston fighters bombed and strafed
the two largest islands in the Tachen grow
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140 bombs were dropped, and that tour persons were killed and
18 wounded. The full extent of damage to Nationalist military in-
stallations is not yet known,
The Communists.may have staged.this air
raid with the purpose of making. a fresh test of American Intentions
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with regard to defense of the Nationalist-held offshore islands.
This apparently was the chief purpose behind the shelling of the
Quemoys on 3 September.
The Tachen air strike may signal the
opening of a new and predominantly aerial phase in Communist
operations against the islands, Peiping, possessing superior air
strength within range of the islands, may try to dislodge the
Nationalist forces without committing ground forces.
The Communists may, however, be
planning to attempt amphibious landings on islands in the Tachen
group. There is an unconfirmed report that a Communist "con-
voy" was spotted on 1 November "north of Ichiang," a small islet
about eight miles northwest of Big Tachen. Ichiang has been re-
peatedly shelled from Communist-held .Toumen Island to the
north in recent weeks and was reported under fire of naval ves-
sels on 1 November. In addition, Pishan Island, held by 1,500
Nationalist guerrillas and located 40 miles southwest of the
Tachens, was reported under continuous artillery fire the same
day,
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