THE 'ASIAN CONFERENCE FOR RELAXING INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS'

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: March 14, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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OCI NO. 0091/55 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
COPY NO. OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
3 5 14 March 1955
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Intelligence)
SUBJECT: The "Asian Conference for Relaxing
International Tensions"
The "Asian Conference for Easing International Tensions"
which is to convene in New Delhi on 6 April will be a gathering
of unofficial Communist-dominated delegations under the auspices
of the All-India Peace Council, a front organization.
The chief item for consideration was originally scheduled
to be the so-called five principles of coexistence with such
other matters as colonialism and atomic weapons also occupying
prominent positions on the agenda More recently there have
been indications that the Afro-Asian conference would also
share the limelight. Indian officials have taken considerable
pains to disassociate their government from this meeting.
A complete list of the countries from which delegations
have been invited is not yet available, but fragmentary infor-
mation indicates that persons from the following have been
asked to attend (asterisk indicates acceptance).
USSR* Indonesia*
Communist China* Pakistan
North Korea* Israel
North Vietnam* South Korea
India* New Zealand
Japan*
Burma* Syria
Ceylon* Libya
Although the New Delhi meeting is not a preliminary to the
Afro-Asian conference, the Communists are expected to exploit
this opportunity to set the tune of their propaganda at Bandung.
The decision to hold the New Delhi meeting was taken at the
Stockholm Conference for Easing International Tensions in June
1954--six months before the Bandung meeting was called. Dele-
gations at the Afro-Asian conference are to be official repre-
sentatives of their governments and, in fact, Peiping is sending
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entirely different groups to the two meetings. Moreover,
representatives from such countries as Israel, South Korea,
New Zealand as well as the USSR have been invited to New Delhi,
but will not be represented at Bandung.
The Soviet Union has shown considerable interest in the
New Delhi meeting. Moscow has not only participated in the
preparatory work of the conference, but has appointed a high-
powered commission to publicize it throughout the USSR.
Peiping, on the other hand, has appointed a delegation
which includes only one important Communist functionary. The
leader of the group is a high nonparty government official and
the remainder of the group consists of "cultural".and labor
leaders who are perennial delegates to "peace" conferences.
The Burmese delegation is being selected by a committee
dominated by pro-Communists, but including four anti-Communist
individuals who apparently have been duped.
Japan reportedly will be represented, among others, by an
expert on atomic diseases and an atomic scientist.
HUNTINGTON D. SHELDON
Assistant Director,
Current Intelligence
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