CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: March 29, 1956
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29 March 1956
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CONTENTS
1. USSR PROPOSES NEW APPROACH TO DISARMAMENT
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2. PRAVDA JUSTIFIES ATTACK ON STALIN
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3. ICELANDIC PARLIAMENT DEMANDS WITHDRAWAL OF
AMERICAN TROOPS
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6. RHEE ENDORSES YI KI-PUNG AS VICE-PRESIDENTIAL
RUNNING MATE
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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1. USSR PROPOSES NEW APPROACH TO DISARMAMENT
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After bluntly rejecting the Anglo-
French disarmament proposal at the
UN disarmament subcommittee meet-
ing on 27 March, Soviet delegate
romy ko su mi ed a new Soviet plan. His proposal con-
tained elements from both the Anglo-French "working
paper" introduced by French delegate Moch on 19 March
and the American proposals for limited "confidence-
building" measures, as well as the original Soviet plan
of 10 May 1955. In contrast to Moscow's more detailed
plan of 10 May, the new approach leaves wide latitude for
prolonged negotiations by which Moscow probably hopes to
sharpen any divergences among the Western powers
The proposal's most significant depar-
ture from the 10 May plan is the absence of provisions for
the prohibition and destruction of nuclear weapons. The
preamble of the new plan, however, maintains that it would
assist in reaching an "indispensable" agreement on banning
nuclear weapons, but the plan itself calls only for a reduc-
tion of conventional armaments and armed forces.
Moscow probably expects that this new
plan will be unacceptable to the Western powers. This is
suggested by the inclusion of the proposal at the end of
Gromyko's speech that, independent of reaching any dis-
armament agreement, the powers should adopt the three
"partial measures" outlined by Khrushchev in his speech
to the Soviet 20th Party Congress. These would include
the immediate cessation of thermonuclear weapons tests,
prohibition of atomic weapons on German territory, and a
15-percent reduction in military budget allocations.
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2w PRAVDA JUSTIFIES ATTACK ON STALIN
"Stalin rendered great services to our party, the working
class, and to the international labor movement" but treats
his rule from the early thirties onward as a prolonged ab-
erration. The present leaders disclaim any responsibility
for the excesses of the purge era, when, in the face of
Stalin's absolute dominance and the myth of his infallibility,
opposition to his policies was futile. However, they evi-
dently feel it would be unwise to reject the earlier period
of Stalin's rule, which produced the policies of collectiviza-
tion and Five-Year Plan industrialization. In addition, by
treating with respect the early phase of Stalin's career, the
regime leaves the generation of Communists who grew up
under Stalin with a part of the myth.to believe in, and renders
the destruction of the rest more palatable.
A long editorial in the 27 March issue
of Pravda provides the first. official
pub it shed justification of the anti-Stalin
drive. The editorial divides Stalin's
career into two phases. It says that
Stalin's egomania, Pravda charges,
created the "cult of the individual" which in turn led to "un-
justified repression" and encouraged "servility." Behind
these charges there apparently lies a real need to revital-
ize the bureaucratic machinery and restore intellectual
initiative within the Soviet state.
Determination to prevent re- establishment
of one-man dictatorship is also indicated in Pravda's editorial.
The attack on Stalin is intended, it says, "to preclude any
possibility of a revival of the cult of the individual in one or
another form.'
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3. ICELANDIC PARLIAMENT DEMANDS WITHDRAWAL
OF AMERICAN TROOPS
the Defense Agreement of 1951 with the United States,
whereby American forces man the NATO air base at Kef-
lavik. Even the Conservative Party, which alone opposed
the resolution, will undoubtedly advocate some revision
during the campaign for parliamentary elections, probably
to be held on 24 June. The base has become increasingly
unpopular with a large segment of the Icelandic people.
The Progressives, second party in the
government coalition headed by the Conservatives, with-
drew from the cabinet on 27 March to force the elections.
They favor a revision of the agreement whereby the Ice-
landers would themselves undertake to guard and maintain
the installations. In accordance with Article VII of the
agreement, the Icelanders can force an American evacua-
tion in 18 months.
The Icelandic parliament's 28 March
resolution calling for a withdrawal of
American troops makes it certain.
that Iceland will insist on a revision of
the base.
Most "revisionists" hope that Iceland
would continue to receive dollar earnings by maintaining
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6.. RHEE ENDORSES Yl KI-PUNG AS VICE-PRESIDENTIAL
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President Rhee's. belated endorsement
of Yi Ki-pung, speaker of the National
Assembly, for the South Korean vice
presidency virtually assures Yi's elec-
tion.
Election of Yi to the vice presidency
would increase the likelihood of an orderly succession in
the event of Rhee's death in office. Yi has developed strong
political backing in the dominant Liberal Party and is ac-
ceptable to most of South Korea's military and national police
leaders.
Although lacking in Rhee's qualities of
leadership, Yi is regarded as a capable administrator.
American-educated, he is a political moderate who has been
co-operative with American officials. A former minister of
national defense, Yi resigned after opposing Rhee in the use
of troops to quell a domestic political disturbance. Since
1953, ho er he has been closely associated with Rhee's
policies.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 28 March)
Egyptian troops in the El Auja sector
in directed small arms fire on an Israeli patrol inside
Israel, according to a military spokesman in Tel Aviv.
Within one month, the first recruits from
South America will arrive in Israel to serve one year as volun-
teers, according to a statement by Israeli Brigadier Carmel,
minister of communications, upon return from a trip to South
America. Tel Aviv has encouraged recruiting of foreign volun-
teers "to strengthen Israel's borders." In November 1955 an
appeal was made to Jewish communities abroad for 100,000
volunteers for work in the border settlements.
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