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This is the Central Intelligence Agency's Central Intelligence Bulletin for 1 February 1960, a daily brief released in 2020. It covers a planned pre-Summit meeting of Soviet bloc leaders in Moscow and Soviet aid for Egypt's Aswan Dam. It also covers the Sino-Burmese border agreement, the Shah's order to watch the Iranian army, the Algiers settler insurrection and Venezuela's protest against the Dominican Republic. A late item reports a Soviet vehicle launched from Tyura Tam to the Pacific impact area. It contains no UFO reports.
-66z°+l-T-I-BE-PH1hA-I; Approved f0uR_e|e§1se: 202_Q/0%/13;C031 5741 1 Communist China and Burma Sign Border Protocol In the border agreement signed on 28 January during Pre- mier Ne Win's visit to Peiping, Burma and Communist China agreed, with two small exceptions, to the traditional boundary between the two countries, following the watershed principle in the north and the 19211 Sino-British line in the south. The bor- der agreement, although not a final settlement, defines the limits within which remaining differences are to be settled. The Burmese consider China's formal acceptance of the traditional border in an official document as a major accomplishment, al- though it conforms to Peiping's public position of the past sev- eral years. \ A treaty of friendship and nonaggression was also signed-- the first such treaty "Peiping has signed with ac Southeast Asian country. _ By agreeing not to participate in military alliances directed against each other, Burma apparently went beyond its original intentions. The extent of two village tract areas in the Kachin and Wa states to be ceded to China remains. to be defined by a joint Sinc- Burmese committee which will operate‘ within the limits of claims shown on maps previously exchanged between Peiping and Ran- goon. China has agreed to cede to Burma the Namwan leased tract essential to communication between the Shan and Kachin states. The joint committee, after what may involve extended negotiations over the size of the village tract areas, is to draft a final border treaty. Peiping's propaganda has already begun to exploit its willing- ness to sign the agreement with Rangoon, apparently to promote similar negotiations with New Delhi. Nehru may interpret the Sino-Burmese agreement as indicating greater willingness on Peiping's part to make some concession toward a, settlement of the more difficult Sino-Indian border dispute. The agreement with Burma sets. a precedent for defining the border between Assam and Tibet, with minor adjustments, on the basis of the McMahon line. - However, on the western sector of the frontier, where the "traditional" border is widely disputed, New Delhi would still be faced with Chinese occupation of some 6,000 square miles of Indian-claimedterritory in the Ladakh area of Kashmir. In any case, Nehru now will find it more difficult to maintain publicly that early ne otiations with the Chinese would serve no useful purpose. “€€9fi"F'1"BE1‘¢“Fl?i'if 1 Feb 6,0 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 2 Approved for Release: 2020/03/13 C03157411
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.