CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 30, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT
INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
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CONTENTS
1. INDIA REACTS SHARPLY TO UN PLEBISCITE RESOLU-
TION ON KASHMIR
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3. HUNGARY REPORTEDLY EXTORTING "CONFESSIONS"
IMPLICATING WESTERN NATIONS
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5. FRENCH WEST AFRICAN OFFICIALS ALARMED OVER
SELF-GOVERNMENT DEMANDS
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1. INDIA REACTS SHARPLY TO UN PLEBISCITE
RESOLUTION ON KASHMIR
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The state of tension in India, resulting
from the UN Security Council's resolu-
tion of 24 January which called for a pleb-
iscite in Kashmir, is also reflected in
Krishna Menon's statement to Ambassa-
dor Lodge on 28 January that there is danger of Pakistani
"fedayeen" attacks in Kashmir and that if they occur, he fa-
vors taking over all of Pakistan.
The Indian press has lashed out at "the
interested and mischievous role" played by Britain and the
United States throughout the Kashmir dispute.
India's belligerent attitude will probably
become even more extreme in reply to Pakistan's proposal
for introduction of a UN force into Kashmir. However New
Delhi, which controls most of the disputed state, is unlikely
to provoke hostilities unless it decides that this is the only
way to prevent a plebiscite- -which it would probably lose to
Pakistan.
Karachi is equally unlikely to precipitate
a conflict as long as it continues to receive UN support.
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3. HUNGARY REPORTEDLY EXTORTING "CONFESSIONS"
IMPLICATING WESTERN NATIONS
A reliable source of the American lega-
tion in Budapest states that many Hun-
garians deported to the USSR after the
revolution have been returned and are
now in a Budapest prison. The returnees are being re-
leased only if they sign a "confession" admitting "contact"
with Western powers.
Comment Such confessions may be used in the
forthcoming political trials to implicate
Western states and their diplomatic missions in the Hun-
garian uprising.
Hungary has accelerated its anti-Western
campaign during the past week, and the legation believes
that efforts to hamper the activities of Western missions in
Budapest are already under way.
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5. FRENCH WEST AFRICAN OFFICIALS ALARMED OVER
SELF-GOVERNMENT DEMANDS
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Local French officials are deeply disturbed
over current political developments in French
West Africa, particularly by the growing de-
mands for early self-government. The Amer-
ican consul general at Dakar notes that they
are most concerned over the rapid pace of
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and fear that Paris will
not realize the neces-
sity of major policy re-
adjustments to meet
the new situation.
ese eve opments,
According to the
deputy high commission-
er of French West Afri-
ca, the Africans now
say they plan to turn the
federations of West and
Equatorial Africa into
two independent states
associated with France
rather than accepting
the French plan for 12
autonomous territories.
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Most of this change in African attitude has
taken place since French Togoland was
granted autonomy in late 1956, and has been influenced by de-
velopments in North Africa and the Gold Coast.
West African territorial leaders recently
supported a refusal of the Grand Council at Dakar to discuss the
budget because of dissatisfaction with the implementation of the
new basic reform law. The African majority of the representa-
tives on a committee of the French National Assembly voted unan-
imously on 24 January to grant larger cowers to African councils.
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