CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/05/24

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• Publication Date: May 24, 1956

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CONTENTS
1. EXPRESSIONS OF OPEN DISSIDENCE AMONG CZECH
STUDENTS (Page 3).
2. SOVIET MISSION CHIEF PRESSES FOR OFFICIAL JAPANESE
RECOGNITION (page 4).
3. RHEE DENOUNCES VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT TO US
CHARGE (page 5).
4. EAST PAKISTAN BUDGET REJECTION PROLONGS PAKI-
STAN'S POLITICAL CRISIS
5. SOVIET ESPIONAGE IN IRAN
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1, EXPRESSIONS OF OPEN DISSIDENCE AMONG
CZECH STUDENTS
Czechoslovak university students are
increasingly expressing their grievances
against the Communist regime.
Charles University
k shouted antiregime slogans, including one
obviously protesting Communist subservience to the USSR.
Students at another university in Prague physically attacked
a rector who had warned them to disband their protest meet-
ing.
In a student parade on 20 May, the first
permitted since 1948, marchers carried signs informing on-
lookers that "We are young but remember a lot" and "We
hope that the governing of your affairs is returning to your
own hands." The students were kept in small groups, were
accompanied by party activists, and were watched by un-
usually large numbers of uniformed police on the streets.
Comment
The dissidence openly expressed in Poland,
Hungary and, to a lesser extent, in Czech�
slovakia has heretofore been primarily voiced by party intel-
lectuals and has been treated by the regimes as largely an, inter-
nal party problem. The population at large has generally
adopted a "wait-and-see" attitude. Evidence that open dissi-
dence is growing among students, who are extensively propa-
gandized by the party, may foreshadow a spread of such
activity to other informed elements of the public.
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2. SOVIET MISSION CHIEF PRESSES FOR OFFICIAL
JAPANESE RECOGNITION
Serge Tiklivinsky,, chief Soviet repre-
sentative in Tokyo, has indicated that
any negotiations between his mission
and the Japanese government, related
to fishery or other issues, cannot be-
gin until Japan recognizes the mission.
Moscow has previously shown itself unwilling to deal with
private Japanese interests and has attempted to build up ex-
tensive official contacts which will make Japanese refusal
to normalize relations appear increasingly pointless.
The Japanese government, under the
necessity for making arrangements which will safeguard
Japanese fishing during tile season now under way, will
probably undertake official negotiations with the Soviet mis-
sion. This in turn probably -will encourage Tokyo's accept-
ance of the "Adenauer formula" for resuming normal diplo-
matic relations with Moscow prior to a peace treaty.
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3. RHEE DENOUNCES VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT TO
US CHARGE
President Rhee, in a conversation with
American charg�trom, has excoriated
Vice-,President-elect Chang Myon, link-
ing him with an alleged Communist con-
hang president in 1952. Strom observes
that while it is not clear what action Rhee will take, he gave
no indication of a willingness to co-operate with Chang.
Comment
President Rhee usually takes the line that
his political opponents are either pro-
Communist or pro-Japanese.
The South Korean vice presidency is largely
a ceremonial position, and it would be possible for President
Rhee to isolate Chang from govern.mental affairs. Should they
fail to reconcile their differences, however, Chang's position
as Rhee's possible successor might prompt Rhee to attempt to
remove him from the succession, possibly by constitutional
amendment.
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4. EAST PAKISTAN BUDGET REJECTION PROLONGS
PAKISTAN'S POLITICAL CRISIS
Comment. on:
The opposition Awami League's success
in getting the East Pakistan Assembly to
reject the budget presented by the United
Front government on 22 May will probably
force President IVIirza to resort to direct
rule of the province. This was done for a year in 1954, but
under the new constitution Mirza can exercise direct rule for
only a few months. During this time he will have to organize
a new coalition government for East Pakistan, which may in-
crease the likelihood that H. S. Suhrawardy, national leader
of the Awami League, will become prime minister of Pakistan.
The upset in East Pakistan will probably
delay a decision on changes in the central leadership. Con-
sequently, the visit to Communist China of the present prime
minister, Chaudhri Mohammad All, now scheduled for 2 June,
may be further postponed.
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5. SOVIET ESPIONAGE IN IRAN
Comment on:
Recent successes of the Iranian
security forces in uncovering Soviet
espionage nets could be used by the
Shah to counter Moscow's offers of
friendship and aid during his visit to the
USSR in June. The Shah, who is now
in Turkey, was informed by Iran's
Supreme General Staff on 21 May that
Iranian counterintelligence had un-
covered a Soviet espionage net which
had contacts in the Supreme General
Staff, the American military advisory
group, the police, and the gendarmerie.
The eight Iranians in the net, which was
headed by a Soviet national, were arrested
and are under interrogation.
an Iranian frontier commissioner has been ar-
rested for espionage and complicity in border-crossing ac-
tivities. The net to which the commissioner belonged appar-
ently was uncovered a month ago when 400 persons were
reported arrested in northern Iran.
All these arrests will probably be ex-
ploited by the Iranian government to show the public that the
USSR is still carrying on subversive activities in Iran in spite
of recent friendly gestures. Wide publicity was given to the
discovery in March that the Soviet assistant military attach�
in Tehran had been receiving documents from an Iranian air
force officer. Likewise, Radio Tehran has been broadcasting
the confessions of a former Iranian officer who allegedly had
just returned to Iran after being trained in the USSR for esr
pionage.
In spite of these successes of Iran's
security forces, Soviet espionage is probably still widespread.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
'Information as of 1700, 23 May)
� An Israeli policeman was wounded by
Jordanian fire in the second clash in two days in the demili-
tarized zone on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. (Press)
The Israeli government makes no effort
to disguise its growing concern over recent developments in
Jordan, according to the American embassy in Tel Aviv. Israel's
short-term concern relates to the diminishing will and ability in
Jordan to control the border situation. Over the longer term it
fears that present trends will proceed to the point where
will become an outright military ally of Egypt
12 Mystere jet fighters from France may fly from
. Brindisi in southern Italy direct to Israel. It is necessary to
await favorable winds at Brindisi, however, since the first
flight of Mysteres over this route arrived in Israel with only
�eight minutes' fuel supply remaining. Israel did not take ad-
vantage of permission to stage the first grow? of 12 Mysteres
through Greek ai rfi el dm
Syria has signed a
new contract with Czechoslovakia for additional Soviet bloc mili-
tary equipment. Included are 38 122-mm howitzers, 25 122-mm
field guns, 20 MIG aircraft and 75 armored vehicles. Soviet bloc
deliveries under previous Syrian- Czech contracts are known to
have included 15,000 submachine guns, 60 T-34 medium tanks,
18 100-mm self-propelled guns, 24 armored vehicles (of 45
ordered), 16 85-mm antiaircraft guns (of 32 ordered), 4 fire-
control computers, MIG trainer aircraft, and spare parts and
accessories for tanks. These deliveries are in addition to the
Soviet bloc T-34 tanks and artillery supplied to Syria by Egypt
under a separate arrangement. Syrian negotiations with the
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Soviet bloc have also covered other item: early-warning raaar
equipment, reconnaissance aircraft, mortars and grenades, a
considerable number of military trucks, and possibly more tanks,
self-p lied tms and MIG aircraft.
Egypt Lebanon1hav e
stressed to diplomats in Damascus the opposition of the Arab
states to a return of UN secretary general Hammarskjold on a
new mission with broader terms of reference than those of his
first mission. (Press)
At least 10 of the 12 new Soviet motor tor-
pedo boats delivered to Egypt are now operational,
These craft were observed
conducting maneuvers, incivaing target practice, off Alexan-
dria on 19 May.
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