Documents / FOIA release
The Central Intelligence Agency issued this Top Secret Central Intelligence Bulletin, a daily intelligence brief, on 8 April 1958. It reports that Communist China budgeted $185,000,000 for foreign aid in 1958 and describes reported Indonesian government plans to attack Padang and Bukittinggi in Central Sumatra. It also covers Israeli-UAR tensions over the Lake Hula drainage project and UAR reconnaissance flights, EOKA bombings on Cyprus, French nuclear testing plans and a Peruvian cabinet reshuffle. It contains no UFO material.
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## 8 APRIL 1958
## I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
Chinese Communist aid programs in free world countries since 1956 amount to $107,000,000. $ \textcircled{1} $
## II. ASIA-AFRICA
UAR has flown reconnaissance over Israel. Israel agrees to delay resumption of Lake Hula work.
Indonesia - Reports indicate early government assault on Padang-Bukittinggi area of Central Sumatra.
Cyprus - EOKA terrorists intensify sabotage operations.
## III. THE WEST
$ \textcircled{5} $ French nuclear authorities, planning considerable test program, oppose international test ban without agreement to stop production.
$ \textcircled{6} $ Peru - President Prado reshuffles cabinet to meet growing public dissatisfaction. Not linked to a story yet.
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 12 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.