CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A001100610001-1
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 24, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

9 June 1953
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SUMMARY
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U Burmese threaten early withdrawal from Bangkok talks (page 3).
SOUTH ASIA
2. Pakistan plans change in Commonwealth status (page 3).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
Ve' Ambassador Caffery comments on British Views on resumption of
Suez base talks (page 5).
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WESTERN EUROPE
6. Comment on announced lifting of restrictions in Austria (page 6).
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
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1. Burmese threaten early withdrawal from Bangkok talks:
the Chinese troops would be controlled.
were authorized to enter into any reasonable agreement, and might even
accept a general cease-fire if the United States could give assurances that
Nationalists agree wt to a week to concrete steps for the evacuation of
their troops from Burma. He stated that the Burmese representatives
Burmese commander in chief General Ne Win
warned US embassy officials in Rangoon that
he would consider withdrawing Burma's delega-
tion to the mixed committee unless the Chinese
The embassy comments that it is essential for
the Chinese to realize that further stalling might cause the Bangkok talks
to collapse, and lead the Burmese to renew their charges in the United
Nations, which would place the blame squarely on the Nationalist govern-
ment.
Comment: To date the Nationalists have shown
little inclination to cooperate in attempts to arrange evacuation. Recent
press reports suggest that they will support a vaguely defined principle of
"voluntary withdrawal" from Burma.
SOUTH ASIA
2. Pakistan plans change in Commonwealth status:
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bill reportedly will be introduced in the July session of the legislature.
eliminate the term royal" from the titles of the military services. The
The Ministry of Law has completed the prepara-
tion, of a bill establishing Pakistan as a republic.
The proposed legislation will replace the present
governor general with an elected president and
Comment: Pakistan apparently will retain a
Commonwealth status similar to India's.
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With the establishment of a republic in Pakistan,
the government will strengthen its internal position by making it difficult
for extreme rightist and Communist opposition to charge "British domina-
tion" of the country.
It is unlikely that Pakistan's relations with the
West will be materially altered, in view of the fundamentally pro-Western
attitude of the government and the country's close economic ties with the
West,
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4. Ambassador Caffery comments on British views on resumption of
Suez base talks.
currently is suppressing the opposition's demands for early action
against the British. He doubts that Britain and the United States would
be in a position to help the Nagib government should the internal situa-
tion get out of control because of calculated delay.
Ambassador Caffery believes that the British
Foreign Office, in favoring a delay in resump-
tion of Anglo-Egyptian defense talks, is com-
pletely "misreading" the situation in Egypt.
Caffery maintains that the military regime
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WESTERN EUROPE
6. Comment on announced lifting of restrictions. in Austria:
The Kremlin's reported intention to remove
all major obstacles to the free movement of persons and goods across
the frontiers of the Soviet zone of Austria, as announced by the Austrian
government, is in line with other gestures designed to give the appear-
ance of a desire to improve the international atmosphere. Together with
the change in the Soviet administrative machinery in Austria, it is probably
designed to persuade the Austrians of a new conciliatory Soviet policy and
offset the recent Soviet refusal to discuss the Austrian peace treaty.
The USSR has little to lose by the lifting of
restrictions in proportion to the propaganda gains which it may anticipate.
The announcement makes no reference to Allied
personnel, and presumably restrictions on their movements remain.
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