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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.
. s“ III. THE WEST - Cuba: [ihe American Embassy in Havana believes that the most serious results of Mikoyan's visit to Cuba are the - expressed intention of the Soviet and Castro governments to collaborate actively in the UN and the offer of technical as- sistance by the USSR. Embassy officials state that the Cuban Government has taken a long step toward putting itself def- initely in the Soviet camp, that there is little possibility that the United States will reach a satisfactory relationship with the present regime, and that "time is working against us" as Castro's control over Cuban public opinion tightens] Z\ (Page 6) “ NO . LATE ITEM *USSR_- Geneva Test Talks: Elie Soviet offer on 16 Febru- ary to accept a set of temporary standards for detecting under- round nucle ex losion rovided the W st to Kh ug ar p s, p e agrees r - shchev‘s plan for a fixed number of ---on-site inspections each year, is designed to further the USSR's objective of a treaty banning all -tests and to undercut the recent American proposal for a limited treaty. An obvious move to divide the Western delegations, the Soviet plan adopts suggestions along these lines put forward by the British delegation on 15 January. Anagree- ment on te nt ol h‘ h ld btmporary co r measures, w 1c wou 0 ain during D14 the "approximately two— to three-year" period while a perma- nent control system was being installed, would also include a joint research program to perfect methods of detecting under- ground explosions. Moscow probably believes that this new concession, which in effect accepts the Western contention that almost any unidentified seismic event should be eligible for an ~ on-site inspection, will make it increasingly difficult for the United States to continue its opposition to the Soviet scheme for an annual quota of inspections--a concept first advanced by Prime Ma T L ‘Minister cmillan. » ¢ 1'7 Feb 60 DAILY BRIEF iii , _, Approved for Re ease:
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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.