CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: January 6, 1955
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. Comment on Peiping's stand on Asian-African conference (page 3).
2. Egypt plans anti-Communist program for Asian-African confer-
ence (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
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Comment on Indonesian declaration o state of emergency in
South Moluccas (page 4)..
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
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1 6. Comment on Sudanese political developments (page
EASTERN EUROPE
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7. Yugoslav-Chinese Communist relations to be established this
month (page 8).
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1. Comment on Peiping's stand on Asian-African conference:
Communist China seems to be moving
to seize the initiative at the Asian-
African conference scheduled to be
held at Bandung next April. Chinese
Communist spokesmen in the past two
days have presented Peiping as an
authoritative voice on what they claim
to be the conference's principal subject--anti colonialism.
Peiping is attempting to define the pur-
pose of the meeting as "enlarging the peace area." The Chinese
Communists will almost certainly try to use the sessions to ex-
tend their diplomatic and economic relations.
Communist China also is attempting to
isolate the United States by accusing it of being opposed to the
conference. This charge has been echoed in the Orbit and Indian
press.
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The American embassy at New Delhi
believes that Nehru can be counted on to resist Chinese efforts
to dominate the meetings. Several other prospective partici-
pants are also expected to resist Peiping's bid for leadership.
2. Egypt plans anti-Communist program for Asian-African confer-
ence:
Egyptian foreign minister Fawzi told
Ambassador Caffery on 4 January that
Cairo believes it will be able to line up
ten other countries for an anti-Communist
program at the Asian-African conference. Fawzi said this pro-
gram would attempt to (1) silence any talk about a third bloc, (2)
influence Indonesia and Nehru away from the Communists, (3) give
the conference a "good push" toward Western thinking, and (4)
avoid any semblance of recognition of Communist China.
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4. Comment on Indonesian declaration of state of emergency in South
Moluccas:
The declaration by the Indonesian govern-
ment on 5 January of a state of emergency
in the South Moluccas, a small group of
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islands in East Indonesia, points up Djakarta's difficulty in con-
solidating its authority over outlying non-Javanese areas (see
map, p. 6). Since early December government spokesmen have
made several vague references to trouble in the area, at the same
time claiming that things were well in hand.
The: self-styled "South Moluccan Republic,"
centered on Ambon Island, staged an unsuccessful military effort
for independence in 1950 and 1951, and is generally supported by
the 1.00,, Ambonese in the area who are anti-Javanese and pro-
Dutch. movement has never been entirely suppressed, and
Indonesian authorities .consider it Dutch-supported.
tify increasing its clandestine military activity in New Guinea.
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Government forces are believed capable
of containing the dissidents. In view of recent statements by Pres-
ident Sukarno and high-ranking National Party leaders, however,
recommending the use of force to win Netherlands .New Guinea,
the Indonesian government may use the Moluccan situation to jus-
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6. Comment on Sudanese political developments:
of an indicated realignment of. political groups. A report from...
Khartoum states that Sayid. All Mirghani, leader of the important
Khatmia Moslem sect, has "granted his patronage" to a new Repub-
lican Independence Party, open to all who favor independence for
the Sudan. This suggests that a union between pro-independence
elements of the governing National Unionist Party and the opposi-
tion Umma Party may be imminent.
Premier Azhari's pro-Egyptian govern-
ment may fall when the Sudanese parlia-
ment reconvenes in mid-February because
Identification of Mirghani with Sudanese
independence would be a serious setback to Cairo's efforts to ob-
tain union of the two countries, since Azharils Egyptian-sponsored
National Unionist Party is dependent on the Khatmia for popular
support.
Under the terms of the Anglo-Egyptian
agreement on the future of the Sudan, the Sudanese are to choose
either complete independence or union with Egypt before 1957.
Mirghani's reported action considerably strengthens the Sudanese
independence movement.
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EASTERN EUROPE
7. Yugoslav-Chinese Communist relations to be established this
month-.
Yugoslav ambassador Vidic in Moscow
told Ambassador Bohlen on 4 January
that Yugoslavia and Communist China
would exchange diplomatic representa-
tives in the near future, and in any event "this month., Vidic
emphatically stated that the Russians had not been intermediaries,
but that the negotiations had been conducted through informal ex-
changes directly between Chinese and Yugoslav officials. Al-
though Vidic did not reveal where they took place, Bohlen believes
it may well have been in Moscow.
Vidic reportedly expressed hope that
this development would not be misunderstood in the United States,
and emphasized it was an entirely logical consequence.
Comment: Yugoslavia has long favored
establishing relations with - ommunist China and announced recog-
nition of the Peiping regime several years ago. It has repeatedly
declared that Western recognition of the Peiping regime is the
best insurance against Soviet domination of Communist China. It
was previously reported that arrangements for Sino-Yugoslav dip-
lomatic relations might be completed in Rangoon, where Tito is
to arrive today. .
Peiping's willingness to open diplomatic
relations with Yugoslavia at this time is almost ceri,a.inly part of
the Orbit's efforts to improve relations with Belgrade. Moscow
may even have believed that the goal would be best advanced in
this instance by remaining in the background.
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