CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2002
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23 July 1955
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Sino-Viet Minh propaganda on Indochina becomes more belligerent
(page 3).
3. Viet Minh said to be giving clandestine aid to Hoa Hao dissidents
(page. 4).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Liberal program for Morocco seen gaining decisive support in
France `page 6).
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Sino-Viet Minh propaganda on Indochina becomes more belligerent:
Chinese Communist and Viet Minh propa-
ganda on developments in Indochina has
become more ominpus in the past few days.
The United States is accused by Peiping of creating a "serious threat"
by obstructing implementation of the Geneva accords, mastermind-
ing the Saigon riots, and of "sparing no effort to dismember Vietnam
and turn South Vietnam into an American military base." Peace in
Indochina, therefore, is facing a "crisis," this propaganda asserts,
and the United States "will be responsible for the grave consequences."
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Viet Minh propaganda has been even more
vehement. Hanoi broadcasts claim that the United States is plan-
ning to attack both North Vietnam and Communist China.
.Considerable attention has been focused
on Laos. The United States is accused of sabotaging negotiations
between the royal government and the Pathet Lao and of instigat-
ing the recent fighting at Muong Peun. On 19 July, Peiping noted
that China and Laos were neighbors and warned that unless "sinis-
ter American maneuvers" to promote aggression in Laos through
the Manila pact were frustrated, "the flames of war in Indochina
would be rekindled.,,
The Communists may follow this propa-
ganda attack with acts of violence intended to spur diplomatic
activity toward a solution in Vietnam.
Viet Minh said to be giving clandestine aid to Hoa Hao dissidents:
Comment: Ba. Cut is said to be violently
anti-Communist. However, ew of his present logistic and fi-
nancial difficulties, he may feel constrained to accept Viet Minh
aid.
The Vietnamese army, in the second
phase of its operation against Ba Cut's forces, has largely succeeded
in containing them, but is unlikely to suppress them completely in
the foreseeable future.
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NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Liberal program for Morocco seen gaining decisive support in
France:
Well-informed Paris sources see a trend
in France in favor of a liberal policy in
Morocco, according to the American em-
bassy. The recent activities of French
extremists in Casablanca have evoked a strongly unfavorable re-
action in Paris, and in Morocco Resident General Grandval.'s ac-
tions have gained him prestige with liberal French and moderate
Moslems.
Premier Faure seems assured of suffi-
cient support from the Socialists and from Mendes- France sup-
porters in the National Assembly to compensate for the loss of
votes on the right over a conciliatory North African policy. Re-
liable sources, including certain members of parliament, expect
Sultan Ben Arafa to be replaced, probably by a regency council,
some time in August.
Comment: Appointment of a regency
council, unsupported by former sultan Mohamed ben Youssef,
would still leave the nationalists unsatisfied. They insist on the.
return of the former sultan. France may therefore reinstate him
outright in order to dramatize its announced policy of reducing
direct French control of Morocco.
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