CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 15, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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2. USSR OFFERS ARMS TO LEBANON
3. INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES WILLINGNESS
TO ACCEPT SOVIET AID
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5. CAPTURE OFHOA HAO DISSIDENT LEADER BA CUT
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2. USSR OFFERS ARMS TO LEBANON
saying that Lebanon did not have funds for this purpose.
Met o stall. Chehab stated he had declined the offer by
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The Soviet military attache in Beirut
offered in early April to supply Lebanon
with antitank weapons, tanks and planes,
according to General Chehab, Lebanese
On 13 April, Chehab informed the Ameri-
can military attache that Lebanon urgently needed 24 recoiless
105 or 106-mm. antitank guns and 50 to' 100 rounds of am-
munition per gun. He indicated that price was no object as
the Lebanese military budget for this year had just been in-
creased by 7 million Lebanese pounds to permit additional
procurement.
Comment The Soviet offer of military assistance to
the Lebanese was probably made in an
attempt to encourage Lebanon to identify itself more closely
with the Egyptian-Saudi-Syrian bloc, which is now receiving
arms from the Soviet bloc. The USSR may have estimated
that the new Lebanese cabinet headed by Prime Minister
Yafi, who is known for his anti-Western sentiments, would
be more open to Soviet offers than previous governments.
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3. INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES WILLINGNESS
TO ACCEPT SOVIET AID
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Comment
Indonesian foreign minister Abdulgani
told the press on 12 April that Indonesia
had agreed" in principle to accept a re-
cent Soviet offer to extend economic and
technical aid. Abdulgani said the proposal,
had not yet been studied in detail so that
the amount involved, and whether it would
be a grant or a loan, were not yet clear.
Presumably negotiations to define the of-
fer are in progress. The Soviet ambas-
sador said on 10 April that the aid might be applied to any
fields. including agriculture and industry.
Previous Soviet offers have been ignored
by the Indonesian government. Its present receptiveness
has probably been influenced by recent examples of Burma
and India in. accepting Soviet aid.
(Concurred in by ORR)
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5, CAPTURE OF HOA HAO DISSIDENT LEADER BA CUT
The capture of Hoa Hao leader Ba
Cut by the Vietnamese army on 13
April is an important victory for
President Diem in his long campaign
against wa' lordism in South Vietnam.
Since'thr, surrender`of_HoalHao rebel
Tran Van Soai in February, Ba Cut
had. been the last prominent figure in
militant opposition to the government.
ecen efforts o obtain his surrender, had failed despite
heavy military pressure against him.
Ba Cut's followers were recently esti-
mated at up to 3,000, about a third of whom were armed
and active. The Viet: Minh, having infiltrated the rebels,
has been using Ba Cut's dissidence as a cover for its own
activities and as an auxiliary arm of its clandestine organi-
zation in the south.
Hoa.Hao elements remaining at large.
Although Ba Cut's capture rer: roves an
important asset to the Viet Minh's subversive apparatus,
the Communists will attempt to retain control over those
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