CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 11, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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3. CHOU EN-LAI REPORTEDLY PLANS SWING THROUGH
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SOUTHERN ASIA
4. COMMUNIST CHINA BUILDS FIRST JET PLANES
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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3. CHOU EN-LAI REPORTEDLY PLANS SWING THROUGH
SOUTHERN ASIA
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Chinese Communist premier Chou En-
lai will visit North Vietnam, Laos,
Cambodia, Burma, India and possibly
Nepal in November and December,
the tour may be ex-
tended to include Indonesia, Ceylon, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Comment
The Chinese have been working steadily for better relations
with the other countries on .Chou's reported itinerary.
His extended trip would provide an oppor-
tunity to deal with a number of problems in southern Asia.
Outstanding among these is the current border dispute with
Burma', which has produced an unfavorable reaction through-
out the area.
Chou will probably also seek to reduce
Indonesian dissatisfaction with some provisions of the dual
nationality treaty negotiated last year and will attempt to cap-
italize on recent Chinese Communist efforts to establish closer
ties with Laos and Cambodia.
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4. COMMUNIST CHINA BUILDS FIRST JET PLANES
"new type of jet aircraft" 17 months ahead of schedule. Mass
production is to follow "soon:'
Comment
The new aircraft plant which reportedly has recently been
completed at Mukden will probably be the site for future se-
ries production of jet aircraft.
Final assembly of the air frames was
probably accomplished by the Chinese from Soviet subassem-
blies, The test aircraft are undoubtedly equipped with Soviet
electronics gear, instruments and other components. The
jet engines, however, may have been mainly of Chinese man-
ufacture, since Peiping announced last June that it had suc-
ceeded in the "trial production" of jet engines.
Peiping radio announced on 8 September
production "on an experimental basis" of
its first jet planes. The Chinese claim
with the assistance of Soviet experts to
have completed trial production of a
An all-out program with Soviet support
has been under way since 1955 or earlier.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 10 September)
Jordan charged that an Israeli military force,
estimated at 100 men, penetrated 200 yards into Jordan on the
morning of 10 September and opened fire on Arab farmers and a
Jordan National Guard patrol about 22 miles southwest of Jeru-
salem. Jordan claims that after exchanging fire for one and one
half hours, the Israelis withdrew leaving six dead in Jordan.
Jordan admitted one man wounded. Subsequently a spokesman
for the UN truce supervisory organization stated that two Israeli
soldiers were missing and one wounded as a result of the clash.
Infiltrators, meanwhile, dynamited a sec-
tion of the Tel Aviv-Beersheba rail line in southern Israel, 12
and one half miles north of Beersheba, on the night of 9-10 Sep-
tember. This is the first such incident in several months. Tracks
of the infiltrators were lost inside Israel and the location.of the
incident is such that the could have come from either Egyptian
or Jordanian territory. co
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