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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.
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Nationalist China's decision to break off trade nego-
tiations with Japan is intended to induce the Japanese Gov-
ernment to withhold approval of the trade agreement pri-
vately signed with Communist China on 5 March. If this
move fails, the Nationalists intend to withdraw their am-
bassador from Tokyo. The Kishi government probably
will attempt to assure the Nationalists that closer trade
relations with mainland China do not constitute recogni-
tion of the ‘Peiping regime.
The sharp Nationalist reaction probably stems from
fears thatneutralism, .which ultimately will contribute to
international isolation of the Nationalist Government, is
developing in J apan, Foreign ‘Minister Yeh revealed his
anxiety about Japan's China policy last summer to American
officials and mentioned his alarm at the growing commercial
relations between Japan and Communist China. Yeh has
instructed the Chinese Nationalist Embassy in Tokyo to pro-
test any permission for the Chinese Communist trade mis-
sion to fly the Communist flag,
Japan is the major recipient of Taiwan's sugar and rice,
the main source of 'NationalistChina's foreign exchange. Two-
way trade -last year totaled $141,000,000. Even if the custom-
ary barter agreement between Taiwan and Japan is not con-
cluded this year, individual contracts may be negotiated to
continue the flow of goods. The Nationalists. may seek to re-
strict this‘ trade to bring_pressure on Japan but only as a
last re t.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.