CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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CONTENTS
2 SYRIAN LEFTISTS MAY PRECIPITATE NEW CABINET
CRISIS (Secret Noforn) (page 4).
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3. HAMMARSKJOLD'S VIEWS ON FORTHCOMING TALKS
WITH NASR (Secret) (page 5).
4. THE HUNGARIAN SITUATION (Secret) (page 6).
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5. YUGOSLAVS SHOW CONCERN OVER RESURGENCE OF
STALINISM (Confidential) (page 8).
6. EAST GERMAN PARTY BOSS ULBRICHT REJECTS
"INDEPENDENT ROAD TO SOCIALISM" (Secret Noforn)
(page 9).
8. GOMULKA REGIME REPORTEDLY ASSURED OF CHINESE
COMMUNIST SUPPORT (Confidential) (page 11).
9. SUKARNO ADVOCATES BROADENING CONTACTS WITH
ORBIT (Confidential) (page 12).
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2. SYRIAN LEFTISTS MAY PRECIPITATE NEW
CABINET CRISIS
Syrian minister of economy Kallas, a
member of the leftist anti-Western Arab
Socialist Resurrectionist Party (ASRP),
has intimated that he and another ASRP
minister may resign from the cabinet soon in order to bring
about the fall of the coalition government,
hat
the coalition is unable to govern the country
believes these remarks support other reports that former
premier Khalid al-Azm may form a government excluding
rightist members of the coalition. (NOFORN)
Comment Syria's "drift to the left" gathered much
of its momentum during the period in
1955 when Azm was the dominating figure in the Syrian cab-
inet. Under present conditions in. Syria, a new cabinet headed
by Azm would probably complete the transfer of government
power to the leftist forces. These forces, through the influ-
ence of the Syrian army intelligence chief, Lieutenant Colonel
Sarraj, already control several government agencies, includ-
ing press censorship. Sarraj reportedly has compiled a long
list of Syrians scheduled for arrest for various activities
"inimical to the interests of the army and the country:' It is
unlikely that rightist elements in Syria could successfully ire-
sist such a move.
Penetration of the area by the USSR would
be facilitated if, Azm succeeds.
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& HAMMARSKJOLD'S VIEWS ON FORTHCOMING TALKS
WITH NASR
UN secretary general Hammarskjold re-
ports that he has obtained Egyptian agree-
ment to the use of Colombian, Danish,
Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Indian,
Indonesian, and Yugoslav troops in the
UN emergency police force. Canadian participation has
been accepted in principle by Egyptian foreign minister
Fawzi, according to Hammarskjold, but will be the subject
of negotiations between Nasr and the secretary general this
week in Cairo. The Egyptians are reportedly concerned that
the Canadian troops' resemblance. to British troops creates
the possibility of incidents with the populace.
Hammarskjold prefers that any further UN
action on .Suez await the outcome of his talks with the Egyp-
tians. He believes that functioning of the UN police force,
clearing of the canal, negotiation, among the parties, and the
United States draft resolution setting up a UN committee to
negotiate a settlement are too closely connected to allow for
UN action while he is still negotiating with Nasr.
While Hammarskjold recognizes the im-
portance of prompt UN action on. the basic Palestine issues
along the lines of the United States draft resolution, which also
sets up a committee to recommend bases for settlement, he
said he believes strongly that the success of any further UN
action depends primarily on Israel's, compliance with recent
UN resolutions calling for withdrawal of troops.
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4. THE HUNGARIAN SITUATION
The American legation reports that the
determination of the workers to continue
to strike is in deadly earnest. Groups
of workers, including the state railway
workers, have apparently held meetings
in which new demands were formulated,
including the "formation of a government
under Nagy which will accept the demands
of workers and revolutionary youth and
the immediate negotiation by this government for the with-
drawal of Soviet troops.,' The situation remains tense in
Budapest and the legation notes that although actual fightin_;
is not reported, groups of people are swarming in the streets
and that "the chance of renewed shooting" can "by no mean;3"
be ruled out.
A number of Soviet leaders, including
Mikoyan and Suslov and possibly 'Khrushchev, reportedly
were in Budapest on 12 November, apparently in order to
look the situation over and to advise the local Communist
leadership.
The government has announced that wage
increases up to 11 percent will be implemented by 1 January,
that certain unfair taxes will be abolished, and that insurance
adjustments will be made for those who suffered a loss during
the revolution. In addition, the government has announced
that "all restrictions on private retail trade in the markets
has been abolished and market trading has been made com-
pletely free:'
In an assessment of the current situation,
the. American legation in Budapest on 12 November reported
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its belief that a "protracted period of absolute Soviet mili-
tary occupation" of Hungary or of "stations so near as to
represent a visible threat of immediate reoccupation; seems
most probable." The legation adds that the Soviet estimate of
Hungarian public opinion is probably realistic and that, hence,
the USSR will take measures to prevent any "soft" policy from
getting out of hand. Deportation of Hungarians who have demon-
strated leadership qualities for continuation of resistance is
reported already under way. (SECRET)
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50_ YUGOSLAVS SHOW CONCERN OVER RESURGENCE
OF STALINISM
The Yugoslavs are indicating growing
concern regarding the possible resurgence
of Stalinist tactics in Soviet policy toward
Eastern Europe. Referring to a Pravda
article written by Albanian party first
secretary Hoxha, Yugoslavia's leading
paper Borba on 10 November sharply at-
tacked Communist elements that have
blamed events in Hungary on Yugoslav ef-
forts to infect Eastern Europe "with doubtful political concepts."
The Yugoslavs believe the Hoxha article
was clearly intended as an expression of Soviet views, Yugo-
slav vice president Colakovic,
said on 11 November that the article
marks the en o further Yugoslav-Soviet rapprochement and
now only "correct" relations can exist between Moscow and
Belgrade, even at the party level.
The Borba editorial appears to be a warn-
ing to Moscow that although Belgrade recognized the need for
Soviet intervention in Hungary, it would not "accept" any rever-
sion to Stalinist tactics in Eastern Europe. Yugoslavia has
publicly declared that it will reject all attempts to deny it the
right to promote its views.
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6. EAST GERMAN PARTY BOSS ULBRICHT REJECTS
"INDEPENDENT ROAD TO SOCIALISM"
First Secretary Ulbricht on 7 November
old an East Berlin party member that
the Hungarian situation vindicated his
prediction that counterrevolution would
Inevitably result from attempts to take separate roads to
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share in management of industrial works. He compared
East German intellectuals who demanded such reforms with
the Hungarian intellectuals who, Ulbricht claimed, turned
out to be enemies of the people. Referring to proponents
of independent socialism in East Germany, Ulbricht warned,
11. . . we shall not permit such efforts and shall crush them
without mercy. We have learned from Poland and Hungary.'
Ulbricht said that the current situation
in Poland embodies the same tendencies which led to counter-
revolution in Hungary. The idea of an independent way to
socialism is "an enemy slogan. . . designed to break us out
of the system of socialism..." He pointed out that the so-
cialist states have an integrated economic plan and noted
that they would all collapse if each went its own way.
Ulbricht claimed that he foresaw the de-
velopments in Hungary and had warned the Hungarian Com-
munist Party. He recounted how the Hungarians had gone from
demands for reform to asking for a. special way to socialism
and ultimately to sliding into "the counterrevolutionary camp.'
Ulbricht warned, "All comrades will get to that point if they
harbor such thoughts." (NOFORN)
Ulbricht scoffed at such proposed reforms in East Germany
as the abolition of work norms, the institution of a profit
s stem and the formation of workers' councils to
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8. GOMULKA REGIME REPORTEDLY ASSURED OF CHINESE
COMMUNIST SUPPORT
The Peiping regime has assured the
Gomulka government of continued sup-
port for the Polish position on relation-
ships with the Soviet Union,
The Chinese assurances, cielivere
after Peiping's public endorsement of Soviet armed interven-
tion in Hungary, indicated that the Chinese distinguish clearly
between Polish and Hungarian developments.
Comment This report gains credibility from Pei-
ping's public statements. The party's
official newspaper, in its 4 November editorial supporting
the Soviet action in Hungary, stated that "it is absolutely er-
roneous to refer... to the events in Hungary and those in Poland
in the same terms." The editorial distinguished sharply between
a Communist regime which intends to remain in the bloc---such
as Gomulka's--and an anti-Communist regime which did not,
as in Hungary.
The Poles have welcomed continuing evi-
dence that the Chinese favor for the Eastern European regimes
a relationship with Moscow similar to that enjoyed by Peiping.
The Polish press described a Chinese statement of 1 November--
in which Peiping set forth its general position on relationships
among Communist states--as "most important moral support
for all those forces which... strive for the elimination of every-
thing that violates the sovereignty of our countries:'
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9. SUKARNO ADVOCATES BROADENING CONTACTS
WITH ORBIT
In a 10 November speech to army of-
ficers, President Sukarno claimed
credit for promoting and clinching the
$100,000,000 Soviet aid agreement
when he was in Moscow and disclosed
that Mao Tse-tung had offered Indonesia
credits at low interest. These disclo-
sures throw light on Sukarno's behavior
since his return to Djakarta, which has
created a strong impression that he
felt his trip to the Orbit was more productive than his pre-
vious visit to the West.
Sukarno's speech foreshadows closer
relations with the bloc. He expressed admiration for the
"practical system" of child education in the USSR and Com-
munist China and for the "revolutionary, patriotic and
peace- loving ideology" guiding the armies of these coun-
tries. He indicated that Indonesia had much to learn in
these fields and suggested that military and educational
missions be dispatched to the Orbit. (CONFIDENTIAL)
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