CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: June 22, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
22 ;June 1956
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3o BURMESE COMMUNISTS REPORTEDLY ADOPT PEACEFUL,
TACTICS 0 (page 6) e
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4 o CHINESE COMMUNISTS ANNOUNCE "TRIAL" PRODUCTION
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5. VIET MINH ANNOUNCES TROOP REDUCTION
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6. SAUDI ARABIA SEEN TURNING AWAY FROM WESTERN TIES
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-THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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3. BURMESE COMMUNISTS REPORTEDLY ADOPT
PEACEFUL TACTICS
Comment on:
The Burma Communist Party which has
-been fighting a guerrilla war against the
Burmese government for eight years, has
decided to pursue its objectives through a "moral offensive,"
according to an Indian press report. The report also alleges
that a party spokesman said the first step in implementing
the new technique was to be an order for the return of-all land,
houses and other properties seized by the partyo
The military fortunes of the Burmese
Communists have been steadily declining for at least five
years, while the pro-Communist National United .Front made
a strong showing in the recent parliamentary elections using
"legitimate" methodso Consequently9 the insurgent Commu-
nists are now more aware than ever that much more is to be
gained by peaceful methods than by a continuation of violence.
Recent pronouncements by both the Ceylonese and Indian
Communist Parties deploring the use of force may also have
influenced the Burmese Communists.
Burma's new premier Ba Swe has publicly
stated that he intends to suppress rebellion "once and for alla'
In the past9 however9 he is reliably reported to have been nego-
tiating with .Communist leaders, and his new government may
well be tempted to grant lenient terms to obtain a quick settle-
ment of the long-standing rebellion.
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4. CHINESE COMMUNISTS ANNOUNCE "TRIAL"
PRODUCTION OF JET PLANE ENGINES
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Communist China has succeeded in a
"trial" production of jet plane engines,
.according to a statement to the People's
Congress in Peiping on 21 June by the chairman of the
National Economic Commissiono
Comment
since early 1955.
The USSR has lent considerable assist-
ance to the Chinese aircraft industry
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5. VIET MINH ANNOUNCES TROOP REDUCTION
Comment on:
The North Vietnam regime's announce-
ment on 21 June that its armed forces
will be reduced by 80,000 men follows
last month's. Soviet and .North Korean announcements of
planned troop reductions. The announcement stated, how-
ever,- that of this number, 50,000 men had already been
demobilized during the two years since the signing of the
Geneva agreements.
The Viet Minh is engaged in a recruit
training program and. it may be that the demobilized men
will be entirely replaced by recruits. Even if the~.Viet :Minh
carried out its demobilization plan as announced, its troop
strength, would remain double that of South Vietnam. In
any event9 the receipt of modern arms from the Soviet bloc
and the continuing- reorganization of the army have -signifi-
cantly increased Viet Minh military capabilities during the
past two years.
The troop reduction announcement will
probably become part of the. Viet Minh propaganda campaign
for the "peaceful unification" of-Vietnam. Vfet Minh willing-
ness to reduce armed forces will be contrasted with the in-
transigence of the Diem government on such questions as the
holding of unification elections scheduled for Jul 1956 b the
Geneva agreements,
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6e SAUDI. ARABIA SEEN TURNING AWAY FROM
WESTERN TIES
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Comment on:
Ambassador Wadsworth believes that
Saudi Arabian policy is all but domi-
nated by Egyptian and anti-foreign na-
tionalist influences opposed to renewal
but is committed to a program for strengthening Saudi mil-
itary forces for which he wants additional fundso
o e :Dhahran air base agreement with the United Sates.
King Saud is practically alone in resisting these pressures,
Both Wadsworth and the British ambassa-
dor are under the impression that top. Saudi advisers. have
presented the United .States and Britain with unreasonable
demands which they hope will be refused, and that the anus
for failure would thus be placed on the Western powers. This
hostile attitude, plus the king's genuine desire to build up his
army, in Wadsworth's opinions explains the Saudi "suggestion"
that the United .States give either $250,000x000 worth of arms
or the money to buy them in return for continued use of the
Dhahran fieldo King Saud has argued that if this "suggestion'''
is refused, he will be "forced" to turn elsewhere--Egypt and
the USSR.
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THE AR.AB~~ISRAE LI SIT UATIOiN
(Information as of 17009 21 Junej
will-decide after further investigation on the question of a viola-
tion of the armistice agreement and an order to destroy the pill-
e wo previous y uni en i ie ins a-
tions at Kibbutz Havogrim in the Syrian-Israeli demilitarized
zone are now reported by UN Truce Supervision Organization
observers to be two concrete pillboxes equipped with firing ports.
The chairman of .the Israeli-Syrian .military armistice commis-
sion expressed the opinion that construction other .than the pill-
boxes would be allowed to stando General Burns, UN truce .chief,
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