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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.

Approved for Release: 2019/08/20 C02066866
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Sixty-two-year-old Morarji Desai, who became Indian
finance minister in a general cabinet shuffle announced on
13 March, is a moderate socialist and a devout Hindu. He
has risen rapidly since 1956 from the post of chief minister
of Bombay State, through the Commerce and Industry Min-
istry, to the important Finance Ministry. His new appoint-
ment is a promotion, but the post is one of the most dif-
ficult in the Indian cabinet. Desai, despite a lack of financial
experience, may prove successful in his new job because of
his widely recognized administrative talents and the fact that
basic Five -Year-Plan financial policies are already fairly
well established.
Despite his promotion, Desai may have lost a covert
battle for power with his senior in age and experience, Home
Minister Pant. Apparently both men recognized the com-
plexities of Indian financial problems and felt that the Home
Ministry was a better steppingstone to the Prime Ministry.
Desai, therefore, is rumored to have tried to force Pant
into the Finance Ministry. ‘ ‘
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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.