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Central Intelligence Bulletin- 1958/03/14

Central Intelligence Agency · 1958-03-14 · 25 pages · text from the file's own layer

The Central Intelligence Agency's Central Intelligence Bulletin for 14 March 1958 is a classified daily intelligence brief on world events, approved for release in 2019. It covers Soviet calls for a foreign ministers' meeting before a summit, Soviet cargo ships possibly bound for Indonesia, and strained Yugoslav-Soviet relations. It also covers unidentified submarine contacts in the western Atlantic, a planned amphibious attack in Central Sumatra, and Middle East disputes. Other items are British troop cuts in Germany and Colombia's elections. It contains no UFO material.

  • p. 3 …y x. _/ 6 e ;;_Seven small Soviet cargo ships south- bound in East China Sea may…
  • p. 4 …Seven small Soviet general % cargo meirchanfships are southbound in the East China Sea. The secrec surro…
  • p. 6 …at the southern entrance to the .Red Sea. \ artillery pieces have been brouglit into the coastal…
  • p. 10 …Soviet Far East through the East China Sea suggest that these vessels are en route to…
  • p. 15 …the Geneva conference on laws of the sea, appears to have reconsidered his previously expressed desire…
  • p. 17 …two patrol craft to patrol the Bled Sea "between Aden and Salif." On 8 March, after…
Approved for Release: 2019/08/20 C02066866
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Soviet Merchant Ships Possibly En Route to Indonesia _
The routes taken by seven small Soviet merchant
ships moving independently from the Soviet Far East
through the East China Sea suggest that these vessels
are en route to Indonesia. It is estimated that the first
of these vessels will arrive in Indonesian waters by 15
March, '
The USSR agreed on 11 March to provide ten small
merchant vessels under its $100,000,000 loan to Indo-
nesia. In its offer to supply vessels for interisland
shipping to replace Dutch ships withdrawn from Indo-
nesia, the USSR informed Djakarta that it would be will
ing to supply suitable vessels from its Far Eastern
merchant fleet on ten days‘ notice. \
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14 Mar 58 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 2
Approved for Release: 2019/08/20 C02066866

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