CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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CONTENTS
1? USSR MAKES MAJOR ADVANCE IN PHYSICS
RESEARCH (page 3).
3. YUGOSLAVIA THREATENS TO STOP COMPLYING
WITH BATTLE ACT (page 5)
4. NEW COMMUNIST OFFERS OF AID TO AFGHANISTAN
REPORTED (page 6),
6. COMMENT ON DISORDERS IN MOROCCO AND ALGERIA
(page 8)
7. PARIS OPTINHSTIC ABOUT TALKS WITH MOROCCAN
LEADERS (page 9)e
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1. USSR MAKES MAJOR ADVANCE IN PHYSICS
RESEARCH
Revelation by V. I. Veksler, a top
Soviet physicist at the Geneva con-
ference on peaceful uses of atomic
energy, that the Soviet Union will
soon complete new equipment for high-energy nuclear
physics research indicates that the USSR will soon be
in a pre-eminent position in this field. Soviet scien-
tists will thus be enabled to perform experiments in
high-energy nuclear physics which cannot now be per-
formed in the West.
The USSR, according to the physi-
cist, is about to complete a 10 billion electron volt
(Bev) proton synchrotron (a particle accelerator) and
is planning construction of a 50- to 100-Bev acceler-
ator. The Soviet Union recently also disclosed exist-
ence of a 680 million electron volt (Mev) synchrocyclo-
tron, another type accelerator- -the highest energy
synchrocyclotron in existence.
The United States, long a leader in
this field, possesses two proton synchrotrons of three
and six Bev respectively. While 25- and 30-Bev units
are being planned in the United States and Western
Europe, none of these will be available for at least five
years.
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3. YUGOSLAVIA THREATENS TO STOP COMPLYING WITH
BATTLE ACT
Yugoslavia would renounce American
aid rather than continue to observe the
Battle Act, according to Yugoslav vice
president and economic chief Vukmanovic-
empo. u cmanovic, who is heading an economic mission
to Moscow, told Ambassador Riddleberger, however, that
his government does not want to break the act hastily, but
that the act would have to be changed if it were to be a con-
dition for the continued economic aid and shipments of
agricultural surpluses which Belgrade wants.
Vukmanovic said that the Yugoslav gov-
ernment will require new long-term credits at low interest
in order to relieve its deteriorating foreign exchange posi-
tion. He protested the West's high interest rates and said
that the USSR is prepared to grant credits for raw math-
rialsat2-percent interest, and gold loans at the same rate.
Although Vukmanovic would quote no amounts, Riddleberger
reports that the USSR is rumored to have offered loans
totaling $100,000,000 for a 10- to 12-year period.
Vukmanovic reiterated that Yugoslavia's
position is one of "independence, " declaring that his gov-
ernment has no secret policies which are unknown to the
United States.
Comment This is the toughest attitude toward
American economic aid yet displayed
by Yugoslavia. Ever since the Soviet visit to Belgrade,
Yugoslav officials have denied any intention of contravening
the Battle Act, stating only that their policy might have to
be reconsidered in the future. Belgrade showed an interest
as late as 12 August in obtaining from the United States for
this fiscal year between $34,000,000 and $40,000,000 in
economic aid, in addition to 24,000 tons of cotton and 600,000
tons of wheat under the surplus commodity act.
Although Yugoslavia may be trying to pres-
sure the United States into more favorable economic treatment
the departure of Vukmanovic with a high-level Yugoslav eco-
nomic delegation to Moscow on 20 August demonstrates Bel-
grade's hopes of a really substantial offer from the Soviet
Union. (Concurred in by ORR)
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4. NEW COMMUNIST OFFERS OF AID TO AFGHANISTAN
REPORTED
The Soviet ambassador in Kabul, dur-
ing a meeting with Foreign Minister
Naim on 10 August, offered to provide
a medical mission for Afghanistan, ac-
cording to a reliable source of the American embassy.
Another embassy source reported that equipment valued
at $60,000 has been offered to the Kabul medical school.
In addition, Poland is reliably re-
ported to have offered materials, equipment, and tech,
nicians for installing water systems in Kabul and Qandahar.
On 16 August, however, when the American ambassador
asked Foreign Minister Naim about the projects, he pro-
fessed to know nothing about them.
Comment If these reports are true, the Soviet
bloc is evidently continuing to offer
Afghanistan as much trade and economic and technical
assistance as it will accept. The offer of a water system
for Qandahar would bring Communist influence south of
the Hindu Kush where Western influence. traditionally has
predominated.
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6. COMMENT ON DISORDERS IN MOROCCO AND ALGERIA
Disorders which erupted on 20 August
among the Berber tribes in central
Morocco and in eastern Algeria are
the most serious since the Rif rebel-
lion in the 1920's and appear to be the
first co-ordinated action of North African native terror-
ists. These activities suggest that the Moslems in North
Africa are capable of carrying out the directives of the
nationalist headquarters alleged to exist in Cairo.
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