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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000400200005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 18, 1955
• Content Type: BRIEF

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COMMUNIST ECONOMIC PENETRATION CAMPAIGN
SOME POINTS MADE BY JUSTICE DOUGLAS
(ARGENTINE STABILITY
BULGANIN-KHRUSHCHEY ITINERARY
(BRAZILIAN SITUATION
FRENCH ELECTION SITUATION
EAST GERMAN SITUATION
18 NOVEMBER 1955
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SOME POINTS MADE BY JUSTICE DOUGLAS
I. Justice Douglas deeply concerned about impact USSR having and
may have on people from under-developed countries.
A. He said: "Given ten years of peace, Asia will be lost
to the USSR."
B. Visits to the USSR by Asians and Near East peoples having
great effect on these visitors.
Douglas concerned Soviet actions these areas and by USSRts
pushing its Point Four program hard.
D. He feels that Soviet industrial plant, at least in public
mind, has been under-estimated.
E. In ten years, he thinks, Soviet industrial power might
even overshadow that of Europe,
F. He said: "All our ideas of cost accounting go by the boards
in that (Communist) system."
II. Douglas travelled widely August and September in Siberia and
Soviet Central Asia.
A. Denied travel to Leninabad (Tadzhik SSR).
1. Told by Soviet personnel uranium discovered and being
developed in Fergana Valley. Leninabad stands at
mouth this valley.
B. Denied travel to Karaganda.
1. According Soviet announcement 15 October, steel mill
being built Karaganda will have ingot capacity 1.5
times that of Magnitogorsk,.currently largest Soviet
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2. On basis these figures, new plant will produce
6,750,000 metric tons of steel a year,--300,000 more
than Gary Works of U.S. Steel, now world's largest
plant.
3. First blast furnace to operate in 1958; full plant
production in 1965.
C. Douglas believed his journey supervised quite closely
by MYD.
III. Justice's party traveled extensively in "new lands" especially
around Barnaul. He called area "booming frontier,"
A. Soviet officials said that with a yield of only 5 bushels
per acre, this program would pay off,
B. Douglas noted talk about "dust bowl" problems and that soil
in area presents chemical problem,
1, Irrigation being worked on,
C. Large volume of rail traffic, particularly of farm machinery.
D. Douglas said:
"Russia is crawling with agricultural
scientists." He was told by Benediktov, Minister of State
Farms, that 235,000 graduates of five-year agricultural
colleges were available.
1. Described by Douglas as evangelical.
IV. Douglas looked into nationalities problem in Soviet Central Asia.
A. Said that in Republic capitals, about half population is
Russian.
Russians get 130 percent more wages than natives; they get
the apartments; inter-marriage is rare.
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C. Schools are segregated. All universities and higher
educational institutions run in Russian with a stiff entrance
examination.
V. Conversations with Soviet citizens revealed little,
A. Big complaint was shortage of consumer goods,
B, Contacts asked question about life in the US, and seemed to
have grandiose notions about power of Communist Party in USA.
VI, Miscellaneous observations.
A. Douglas saw many soldiers engaged in civilian construction
work, such as apartment buildings.
B. His plane put down at Semipalatinsk for one hour or so
around end of August, Numerous jet medium bombers seen at
airfield. No unusual air sightings before or after Semipalatinsk,
1. Nuclear tests in area on 29 July and 2 August,
C, Many Chinese seen at Omsk, Train loads of Chinese going
west seen at Petropavlovsk, At Bolshoi theater on night
Douglas attended, three-fourths audience Chinese.
D. Douglas said: "There is no rationing in Soviet Central Asia."
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I. New government of Provisional President General Pedro
Aramburu has broader military and civilian support than
Lonardi, but still faces grave problems.
A. Power struggle and dissidence still evident.
1. Extreme nationalists dissatisfied with Lonardi's
ouster.
2. Navy reported seeking increased power.
3. Army divided on purge of Peronista officials.
B. Although CGT general strike smashed, government's
20 MR[yhow of force beclouds labor sympathies.
C. told Ambassador Nufer on 16
November that serious economic difficulties expected
in near future unless government obtains prompt
ass'~~SX, e.
1. stated all of present government "definitely
democr.atic4t and most friendly toward US and inter-
American cooperation.
2. Nufer expects direct approach for financial aid
on crash basis soon.
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I, Bulganin and Khrushchev now in India. Will proceed about
5 December to Burma for one week stay; then to Afghanistan
for one week.
A, Reports of a subsequent stop at Cairo still unconfirmed,
They are accompanied by high level staff especially
qualified to discuss political, trade and cultural rela-
tions with South Asians.
C, N, A. Mikhailov - Minister of Culture
A. A. Gromyko - First Deputy Foreign Minister
P. M. Kumykin - Deputy Foreign Trade Minister
I. A, Serov - Head of the Committee of State Security (KGB)
D. R. Rasulov - Deputy Minister of Agriculture (native
of Tadzik Republic)
Mme, Z. R. Rakhimbabayeva - First Deputy Minister of
Culture of the Uzbek Republic
These are only the top members of the delegation, which
may be as large as 30 people,
1. There are Uzbek and Tadzhik minorities in Afghanistan.
II. Bulganin and Khrushchev are visiting major cities of India
(Bombay, Calcutta, Madras) and other show places.
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A good chance they will also visit Bhilai, apparently
in anticipation of India's early acceptance of Soviet
steel mill offer,
1. Soviet survey teams already on scene, and housing
construction activity has been reported..
III. King Saud is to be in India while Soviet leaders are there.
IV, Soviets more interested in-good relations with India than
with any other country in area.
V, Soviet leaders undoubtedly will arrive with rash of offers
for all three countries, especially economic and technical
assistance.
VI. It is expected that the three states will be more susceptible
to Soviet offers than previously because of particularly
acute economic problems they face at present.
A. Also the lack of Soviet attempts to attach political
strings to economic assistance has convinced many Asians
that they can do business with the Soviet Union without
succumbing to Communist ideologies.
VII. In any event, visit of Soviet leaders will enhance Soviet
influence in area.
A. Visit will lend cloak of respectability to communist
policies and open way for even further contacts between
these countries and Soviet bloc.
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1. Situation outwardly calm following 11 November coup but
underlying tensions remain.
A. Cafe Fiiho still legally president.
1. Reports state he may resume office in few days,
although his actions in past year suggest he
dislikes responsibility.
2. Forces backing Acting President Ramos believe Cafe
sympathetic to their opponents.
3. Consequently, if Cafe resumes office, Ramos backed
by War Minister Lott may try to oust him.
B. Increased troop movement noted on 17 November in Rio
de Janeiro.
C. Two important state governors have refused to pledge
support to new government, although not now actively
opposing it.
D. Some important armed forces officers continue disaffected.
II. All appointees of acting president Nereu Ramos are apparently
supporters of president-elect Kubitschek, most are pro-US,
A. Labor minister Nelson Omegna, however, is supporter of
vice president-elect Goulart, has some links with
Communist fronts, believed critical of US.
B. Pro-US finance minister retained.
C. New key police official in Rio de Janeiro believed by
source with political contacts to be friend of Goulart
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anti-Communist.
III, Communists arrested on 12 November numbered 18, are apparently
still in custody.
A. Arrests made during flash meetings apparently implement-
ing Communist Central Committee instruction to support
General Lott's 11 November coup by all mass actions
possible.
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FRENCH ELECTORAL SITUATION
I. Chances reduced for French National Assembly elections
before Spring:
A. Tactical maneuver in assembly prevents Premier Faure
from pressing directly for immediate decision on date:
1. Majority of deputies (339-270) blocked further
debate on electoral reform until Faure presents
redistricting plan, which could lead to unlimited
delay through debating and amending.
B. Faure, nevertheless, reported seeking to reintroduce
electoral question on assembly agenda.
C. If assembly balks this move, resignations from cabinet
may oblige Faure to resign.
D. Faure may pose vote of confidence on general government
policy:
1. Defeat by constitutional majority would permit
dissolution.
E. Even if he should win a confidence vote on electoral
issue, he would probably again run into trouble from
the council.
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EAST GERMAN SITUATION
I, Travel to Berlin by civilian members of US, British and
French staffs in Germany may soon be transferred to East
German control,
A. This is suggested by recent Soviet queries
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II.. USSR also hopes to circumvent Allied oontrols over Soviet
travel in West Germany,
A. Sovereign West Germany will want to exercise control
over Soviet travelers in her territory,
B. Bonn control of Soviet travelers would make it easier
for the USSR to turn control of Allied travelers to
Berlin over to East Germany,
III. USSR may have plan of successive stages of increasing Allied
contacts with the East Germans with a view to forcing Western
recognition.
IV, East German propaganda threats against Berlin continue.
V. Last week's refugee flow into $5erlin increased over previous
week from 3839 to 4450,
A, Almost 50 percent of total refugees cross directly into
West Germany.,
1, So total figure probably almost double that of
Berlin count,
VI.. Morale continues low in East Germany.
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A. Soviet actions at Geneva have destroyed any remaining
hopes' for reunification of Germany.
Prospects for food shortages during winter and for
conscription will further lower morale.
C. Another 17 June not expected,.
1. Rather than serious demonstrations against the
regime, opposition will be reflected in a continued
high refugee flow, unless forcefully stemmed by
regime.
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