CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: April 10, 1956
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CURRENT
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BULLETIN
10 April
1956
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CONTENTS
1. MIKOYAN SIGNS AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE FURTHER
ECONOMIC AID TO COMMUNIST CHINA
(page 3).
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2. BULGARIAN PREMIER CRITICIZED BY PARTY CENTRAL
COMMITTEE (page 4).
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3. CAMBODIA TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS WITH USSR
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5. SPANISH-MOROCCAN TALKS INCONCLUSIVE
(page 7).
THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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1. MIKOYAN SIGNS AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE FURTHER
ECONOMIC AID TO COMMUNIST CHINA
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Comment on:
First Deputy Premier Mikoyan on
7 April in Peiping signed an agree-
ment promising continued Soviet
support for the economic development
of Communist China. While the new commitments do not
increase the current annual level of Soviet assistance to
China, they extend Soviet support well into the Chinese
Second Five-Year Plan (1958-1962).
Under the agreement the USSR will
build 55 new industrial enterprises in China. These are
in addition to 156 enterprises provided for in Sino-Soviet
agreements of 1953 and 1954. The 55 new projects are to
cost China 2. 5 billion rubles ($625,000,000 at the official
rate of exchange). No loan appears to have been granted to
finance this sum, which is to be defrayed "through trade
procedures:'
A Pravda editorial of 8 April which
expressed admiration for Chinese achievements predicted
that Communist China would "create its own powerful in-
dustry within the first two to three Five Year Plans:' This
is more optimistic than statements by Chinese Communists,
who have anticipated that it would take three Five Year Plans
to become "basically" industrialized and the rest of this cen-
tury to become "highly" industrialized.
Pravda also explicitly called to the atten-
tion of non-Communist underdeveloped countries the impres-
sive record of Chinese progress with Soviet aide
-(Prpared by ORR)
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2. BULGARIAN PREMIER CRITICIZED BY PARTY
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
The resolution of the Bulgarian Com-
munist Party's central committee
criticizing Premier Chervenkov clearly
foreshadows some limitation on Cher-
venkov's powers, if not his removal as
premier. The resolution, published on 8 April,, condemns
the "cult surrounding the person of comrade Vulko Cherven-
kov" and says it led to unilateral decisions harming both the
party and state. While several of the Satellite parties have
pleaded guilty to fostering the cult of personality, the Bul-
garians are the only ones to attribute it to their top political
leader.
There is no indication yet as to how much
Chervenkov's powers will be circumscribed. As a move to
"completely liquidate the cult of personality," the Bulgarian
party secretariat has been expanded from three to five mem-
bers. The background of the two new members, Encho Staikov
and Boyars Bulgaranov, suggests an attempt to maintain the
balance between the "Muscovite" and "nativist" elements in
the party. There may be a reluctance to replace Chervenkov
with the present number-two man, Deputy Premier Anton
Yugov, who belongs to the "nativist" group. In order to keep
the "nativists" within bounds, an attempt may be made to set
up a "collegial" system spreading power among several, in-
cluding Yugov and possibly a "reformed" Chervenkov.
As recently as February Chervenkov ap-
peared to be in a strong position. He went to Moscow to
negotiate an agreement for Soviet economic credits of
$92,000,000, and he also addressed the Soviet 20th Party
Congress as leader of the Bulgarian party delegation.
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3. CAMBODIA TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS WITH USSR
A Soviet embassy will be established
in Phnom Penh this June, according to
Cambodian minister of agriculture
Hoeur Lay Inn. He said either he or
Finance Minister Mau Say would be ap-
pointed Cambodian ambassador to Moscow, to take up res-
idence there in November.
Comment After his return last February from
Peiping, Prince Sihanouk told Ameri-
can officials that the Soviet charge there had pressed him
on the establishment of official relations and that he was
stalling but doubted he could avoid doing something.
Until the USSR's recent shift in favor of
Cambodia's admission to the United Nations, Sihanouk had
cited Moscow's negative position on that issue as sufficient
reason not to exchange recognition.
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5. SPANISH-MOROCCAN TALKS INCONCLUSIVE
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The final sessions of the Spanish-
Moroccan talks in Madrid were
reportedly "stormy," according to
the American embassy in Madrid.
ny troublesome points were left unsettled, such as
the future of the presidios of Ceuta and Melilla, whose
return was reportedly requested by the Moroccans
Spanish fears that the privileges
granted to France by a united Morocco would exceed and
prejudice those granted to Spain reportedly underlay the
differences between the two parties. The Moroccans re-
j ected Spanish efforts to make the transfer to Morocco of
full powers in the Spanish zone conditional on the achieve-
ment of "genuine independence" of the French zone.
Further negotiations, which may be
protracted, are scheduled for 7 May,
Comment The Spanish-Moroccan declaration and
protocol of 7 April was undoubtedly in-
tended to equate Spain's position in a?united Morocco to that
of France as well as to ensure a voice for Spain in Moroccan
affairs.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 9 April)
Clashes between Israeli forces and Arab
terrorist raiders in Israel multiplied as the Israelis took extra
security precautions and began round-up operations against
the terrorists. While the series of incidents since 5 April
indicates an increased willingness on the part of both sides to
risk war, there is no evidence now available that either side
has decided to launch full-scale hostilities in the immediate
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The American army attache in Cairo notes
that Egyptian press accounts of terrorist activity, reproducing
without comment Israeli communiques, appear to be acknowledg-
ments of the,general truth of these reports. Deports of terror-
ist activities last fall were similarly handled by the Egyptian
press.
Egypt.
. the Baltic on 29 March and are, believed en route for delivery i
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four unidentified vessels "not above mine sweeper size" passed
Gibraltar and entered the Mediterranean during the early even-
ing hours on 4 April. Unidentified vessels, possibly the same
group, were reported southeast of the Balearic Islands at noon
6 April. These craft may be the 3,100-ton Polish merchant ship
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