CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
SOVIET UNION
1. Widespread drought in Soviet "new lands" (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Ba Cut's Hoa Hao forces reported defeated by Vietnamese army
(page 3).
WESTERN EUROPE
4. Pinay suggests Big Three meeting on North Africa (page 6).
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SOVIET UNION
1. Widespread drought in.Soviet "new lands":
Comment: Similar drought conditions
have been reported recent y in alov Oblast and northwest
Kazakh SSRO These reports, together with available weather
data, indicate that the entire "new lands" area has suffered from
lack of rainfall. Even if weather during July is favorable, crops
in the "new lands" will be only mediocre at best.
Crop prospects in. European USSR con-
tinue to be favorable. Therefore, despite apparent difficulties
in the "new lands" area., the total Soviet harvest for 1955 could
equal or might possibly exceed the mediocre level of 1954, when
there was a drought in the Ukraine. (Prepared by ORR)
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Ba .Cut's Hoa Hao forces reported defeated by Vietnamese army:
Rebel Hoa Hao leader Ba Cut was de-
feated and driven from his stronghold
near the Cambodian border on 29 June,
His remaining forces total approximately
900 men. The only escape for Ba Cut's remnants,
is to be evacuated by the French navy from their present
ma enclave on the southwest coast.
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although
military action againsHao west Saigon was proceea-
ing very well, the political phase was unsatisfactory. The ma-
jority of the population in the formerly rebel-held territory
remains under the influence of either the Hoa.Hao or the Viet
Minh.
Comment- The rapid progress of the
Vietnamese national army innnneutrralizing organized Hoa Hao op-
position has tended to obscure the fact that the government may
still be faced with substantial guerrilla activity by die-hard rebel
elements. The army is now engaged in mopping-up operations
intended to forestall such a development.
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WESTERN EUROPE
4. Pinay suggests Big Three meeting on North Africa:
French foreign minister Pinay urged
Ambassador Dillon that during Secre-
tary Dulles' stay in Europe, representa-
tives of the United States, Britain and
ranee o a meeting to discuss all aspects of the North African
problem. He considered that it might even be advisable to have
such?a meeting at the chiefs-of-government level.
Pinay also said that he hoped a simple
statement of an agreed position would come out of the meeting.
This, he said, would greatly help to put at rest the many rumors
of American and British opposition to the continued presence of
France in North Africa.
Comment: On 20 June Premier Faure
suggested a high-level meeting with the United States on the North
African situation and mentioned that Marshal Juin might head a
French delegation to Washington.
The increasing French charges during
the past month of American interference in North African affairs
may be a build-up for a demand that the United States agree to a
forthright statement backing French policy in North Africa.
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