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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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\\\\\ Belgian Congo: Brussels’ recent announcement that inde- pendence with full sovereignty will be granted the_Congo on 30 June has caused widespread anxiety among the Congo's 100,000 E d ile dto bst nt'al d E ‘ uropeans, an may a a su a i exo us. uropeans feel that Brussels is surrendering to virtually every African de- mand in the current round-table talks, and fear that Belgium will\\\\\\ be unprepared to protect its nationals in the Congo during the post-independence period, which may well be chaotic. The pre- vailing feeling could strengthen secessionist sentiment in mineral- rich Katanga Province, where the Europeans are politically well organized The Consulate General in Leopoldville observes that an orderly tran ition e iod afte 30 Jun ill d d th et -s p r r e w epen on e r en tion of a substantial cadre of Belgian civil servants. The mainte- nance of the Force Publique at its present stren We sen ial ‘*0 Irag A cabinet change amioiuiced in Baghdad on 16 Feb- ruary appears to be a jolt for Communist influence in the Iraqi Government Following a struggle of some weeks over control of the agrarian reform program, the anti-Communist minister of interior, Brigadier Yahya, has been made acting minister of a rarian reform in addition to his oth r dut' hile th -g e ies, w e_ pro Communist former minister, Ibrahim Kubbah, has been relieved. Kubbah has also been dismissed from his post as acting oil min- ister, but in this case another extreme leftist, Minister of Plan- ning Shaybani, has taken over the portfolio on an actinggplasis. \\\ 17 Feb so DAILY BRIEF ' 11 ‘F'6P_S-EGR-El
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 14 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.