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The Central Intelligence Agency issued this Central Intelligence Bulletin on 17 February 1960. The daily brief was distributed to the President and senior officials, and it covers world political and military developments. Items include Khrushchev's formula for two separate German peace treaties, a Communist attack on a Nationalist air patrol over the Taiwan Strait, and Israel's boycott of a UN armistice meeting. It also covers anxiety over Belgian Congo independence, an Iraqi cabinet shake-up, Cuban-Soviet ties and a Soviet nuclear test detection proposal. It contains no UFO material.
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USSR- Germany: [Fit the recent meeting of bloc leaders in
Moscow, Khrushchev is reported to have put forward a new
formula--subsequently outlined publicly by East German Pre-
emier Grotewohl on 10 February—-calling for two basically sim-
ilar German peace treaties, one between the Western powers
and Bonn and the other between bloc governments and East Ger r
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Taiwan Strait: flhe attack on a Chinese Nationalist routine
air patrol by Chinese Communist jet fighters over the Taiwan
_ Strait on 16 February was ordered by Communist ground control
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