CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 30, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
SOUTHEAST ASIA
1. Thai premier lukewarm over close co-operation with Burma
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4, USSR rumored to want neutral belt in Europe (page 5).
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
Thai premier lukewarm over close co-operation with Burma:
The Thai deputy foreign minister has
informed the American embassy in
Bangkok that Premier Phibun desires
to maintain friendly relations with the
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alist guerrillas in Burma.
Comment: The Thais have been aiding
nese guerrillas in the belief that
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both the Karens and the C
they would serve as a buffer between Communist China and Thai-
land.
There has been a Thai-Burma rapproche-
ment during the past year, but this report indicates that Bangkok
is not sanguine about this development. Thai suspicions of the
Burmese may well be rekindled at the Afro-Asian conference,
where Burma is likely to be ranged more often than not on the
side of Peiping in opposition to .'.Thailand.
Burmese people, butnot necessarily with their present govern-
ment. Moreover, the premier views sympathetically the pleas
for assistance from both Karen insurgents and Chinese Nation-
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4. USSR rumored to want neutral belt in Europe-
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Comment: There has been Western
press speculation recently that Moscow desires a neutral belt in
Europe. Moscow may be propagating this line in order to en-
courage West German hopes for unification and thus discourage
support for rearmament.
Moscow's recent moves to encourage
the belief that it would sign a treaty for a neutralized Austria
also appear intended to stimulate German interest in neutralism.
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