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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.
Approved for Release: 2020/03/13 C03173539 uIIC1'\'r:1— I.. THE COMMUNIST BLOC Moscow Meeting of Bloc Leaders Discusses Pre-Summit Strategy [Iiuring the recent meeting of bloc leaders in Moscow, Khru- h h t dl d l l d dt t h s c ev repor e y ma e severa proposa s esigne o s rengt en Soviet efforts at the summit to persuade the West to negotiate German peace treatSL.J In a move to make less distasteful to the West the standard Soviet proposal for a peace treaty with both German states, the Soviet premier put for- ward the formula—-subsequently outlined publicly by East German Premier Grotewohl on 10 February--calling for two basically similar treaties, one between the Western powers and Bonn and the other between bloc governments and East Germany. Grotewohl explained that this procedure "would lead to the same result" and "do away with objections raised by some governments." Pravda emphasized these aspects of Grotewohl's speech on 11 Februafig v and Ulbricht are re orted . g _ p Jhave agreed on a peace treaty wtfich wou1H1egal- ize the division of Germany as one of their basic objectives in forthcoming East-West talks. Ulbricht was to take the initiative in proposing that the four owe tiate a treaty zlilirushche ans no basic concessions on Germanyor Berlin at the summit, but will urge that the West agree to all-German ' negotiationfl - llihrushchev took this approach in his talks with Italian Pres- ident Gronchi. In defending his proposal for creating a free city in West Berlin, Khrushchev termed his agreement to an interim settlement a "real concession" to facilitate all-German talks. He reaffirmed his intention to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany if the West did not agree to begin negotiations on a treaty] -S-E67-RE? 17 Feb 60 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 1 Approved for Release: 2020/03/13 C03173539
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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.