CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 24, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

24 September 1955
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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CONTENTS
1.. DIEM GOVERNMENT PLANS REFERENDUM TO OUST
BAO DIA (page 3).
2. SOVIET HARVEST MAY BE HIGHEST SINCE WAR (page 4)
3. ESTABLISHMENT OF SOVIET-LIBYAN DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS MAY BE IMMINENT (page 5).
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1. DIEM GOVERNMENT PLANS REFERENDUM TO OUST
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Premier Diem's envoy in Paris has
indicated that a referendum to de-
pose Bao Dai may be held by the end
of October, according to Ambassador
l on. The Vietnamese official thought elections for a
South Vietnam national assembly could be held "with
safety" by the end of the year and that a timetable could
perhaps be announced before the meeting of the Big Four
foreign ministers at Geneva. The Saigon government
would take the position that the issue of consultations
with the Viet Minh on nationwide elections would be up
to the elected assembly.
Comment The Diem government believes that it
will be subjected to increased inter-
national pressure to enter into consultations with the Viet
Minh as a result of the foreign ministers' conference in
October. It hopes that this pressure can be met by these
moves. Preliminary planning for an elected assembly be-
gan last spring; it is probable that Diem will delay actual
elections until he feels sure they will not threaten his con-
trol of the government.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman in
Saigon has indicated that the referendum on Bao Dai will
be held on 23 October.
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2. SOVIET HARVEST MAY BE HIGHEST SINCE WAR
Total Soviet grain production this year
probably exceeds the postwar high set
in .1952. Final figures for other im-
portant crops, such as sugar beets,
s ana cotton, are expected to show improvement
over last year.
There was a 25-percent expansion of
total wheat acreage over 1954. The ,,new lands" area.,
where most of this expansion occurred, was hard hit by
drought. The total harvest there, however, is expected
to be larger than that of last year. There was good weather
in the important wheat areas of the Ukraine and North
Caucasus.
A good wheat crop this year will en-
able the USSR to rebuild wheat reserves depleted during
the last two years or undertake some expansion of wheat
exports.
Success of the corn program, Khrush-
chev's key to the fodder supply this year and in the future,
cannot yet be gauged. (Prepared by ORR)
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3. ESTABLISHMENT OF SOVIET-LIBYAN DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS MAY BE IMMINENT
he establishment of diplo-
matic re tions between Libya and
the Soviet Union may be imminent. An announcement
to this effect may be made on 25 September.
Comment Soviet approaches to Libya for the
establishment of diplomatic relations
were reported early this month. If Libya has in fact
agreed to open diplomatic relations, the USSR has prob-
ably agreed to support Libya's candidacy for UN mem-
bership. This support, however, would probably be
limited to the inclusion of Libya in a " acka a deal" in-
cluding several of the Soviet Satellites
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