CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A002100410001-1
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 9, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Thai premier makes further cabinet changes aimed at Phao
(page 3).
SOUTH ASIA
3. Comment on changes in Pakistani government (page 4)
EASTERN EUROPE
4. East Germans reported disappointed with outcome of Geneva
conference (page 5).
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Thai premier makes further cabinet changes aimed at
Phao:
Premier Phibun is apparently deter-
mined to strip Police Director
General Phao and his followers of
their administrative posts within
the government and their control of lucrative monopolies.
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He is said to feel confident that these changes will not
result in open conflict and bloodshed.
Phibun's actions over the week
end included the ouster of Phao as deputy minister of
finance, in which capacity he had left for the United
States on 1 August to undertake. informal aid discus-
sions. It is not clear how this will affect his authority
to conduct these talks. Last week the premier had as-
sumed the Ministry of Interior, thus depriving Phao of
the control he has exercised over that ministry as deputy.
The Phao faction apparently has
been outmaneuvered by Phibun.
SOUTH ASIA
3. Comment on changes in Pakistani government:
as president of the Moslem League earlier the same day,
poses an immediate problem to the government on the
choice of Ali's successor.
The resignation of Mohammad Ali
as prime minister of Pakistan on
7 August, following his refusal to
continue in office after his ouster
Finance
Minister Chaudri Mohammad i, who was elected presi-
dent of the Moslem League, is the choice of Acting Gover-
nor General Mirza and the ruling clique. Despite this,
however, Law Minister H. S. Suhrawardy, an experienced
politician who has been seeking the premiership since he
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joined the cabinet last October, may be given the op-
portunity to form a government. Suhrawardy would be a
reluctant choice of Mirza and the ruling clique in the
government but may become prime minister because
the support of his Awami League is needed to form a
new government.
For the present at least9 regard-
less of who assumes the premiership, power in Pakistan
may be expected to remain in the hands of Mirza and his
group, who are strongly pro-American. Should Suhra-
wardy become prime minister, however, a conflict be-
tween him and the present ruling group would eventually
develop F77
EASTERN EUROPE
4. East Germans reported disappointed with outcome of
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Geneva conference:
the populace is
generally disappointed with the out-
come of the Big Four conference at
enevao A feeling is prevalent that because of its "trust-
ing nature,' the West was misled by the Soviet Union, and
confidence in the United States has decreased. People
generally believe that the Russians gained all their obj ec-
tives without making any concessions and that a relaxation
in tensions will help the USSR repair its economy, with
the result that it will be less ready in the future to con-
cede on the German question.
Earlier hopes that Chancellor Ade-
nauer's visit to Moscow would work a "miracle" have now
been replaced by resignation. Some people feel that pros,
pects for reunification were dimmed at Geneva, and that
therefore his visit to Moscow will be barren of results
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There is also a tendency to accept the
Communist allegation that the chancellor is an enemy of
reunification.
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