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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against left-wing Cypriot trade unionists. Since 1 April, which was the third anniversary of the EOKA terrorist organization, more than 30 bombings have occurred. Government property, including a police station, has suffered severe damage. The new upsurge of violence appears to be accompanied by a crime wave. ## III. THE WEST France--nuclear weapons: A French Atomic Energy Commission official, strongly objecting to any agreement to halt testing without an effective ban on production, states that France plans a series of "meaningful" nuclear weapons tests, rather than one or two for "prestige." The French apparently do not consider agreement to halt production to be likely. His emphatic statements on France's large commitment in time, effort, and money to its national nuclear weapons program find support in the fact that the atomic energy appropriation suffered less severely under Gaillard's recent austerity cuts than did the regular military budget. Peru: The cabinet reshuffle of 5 April is an attempt by the Prado government to satisfy growing popular dissatisfaction. The strong leftist but non-Communist Apra party will probably gain in influence with the appointment of Raul Porras Barrenechea as foreign minister. He is closely linked with the Apristas. (Page 4)
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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.