Approved FWlease CONFIDENTIAL COPY N0 30 OCI NO 8855 55 10 November 1955 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY 65 It Q5 Niki I CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE CONFIDENTIAL 25x1 State Department review completed Approved For Release Approved Fog ease CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY 10 November 1955 PART II NOTES AND COMMENTS Bolshevik Revolution Anniversary The 38th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution was highlighted by the traditional speech at the Bolshoi Theater and the currently fashionable gay diplomatic reception the next evening at which Soviet leaders undertook to dance pol- kas mazurkas and gavottes in demonstration of their human qualities Since 1947 the honor of delivering the important annual yearuend review has rotated among members of the party pre sidium This year's spokesman L M Kaganovich a first deputy premier and chairman of the State Committee for Wages and Labor restricted himself to previously well-defined themes of the party line He remained in character as an Old Bolshevik on a Bolshevik occasion com bining doctrinaire attitudes and expressions with the Khru shchev Bulganin coexistence policy His speech although it utilized such clich s of the revolution as dictatorship of the proletariate class strug gle and belief in the vic- tory of Communism in the 20th Century nevertheless managed not to distort the Soviet Union's current peace line Foreign Policy Implications Kaganovich reaffirmed the loyalty to the struggle for peace and coexistence but reiterated the adamant Soviet stand on the German issue and the need for agreeing on a European security plan His brief reference to disarmament marked time along the lines of Bulganin's 19 September letter to President Eisenhower in stressing the necessity of end- ing the armaments race and ban ning atomic weapons Kaganovich devoted partic ular attention to the good relations with the Bandung powers and affirmed the signifi- cance of Bulganin's and Khru- shchev's coming visits to India Burma and Afghanistan He de clared that the Soviet Union will always remain on the side of the peoples of Asia and Africa in their struggle for freedom and independence Kaganovich analyzed the nature of Communist revolution at some length in an apparent attempt to rebut Western_charges of international Communist con spiracy while reaffirming faith in the inevitable world triumph of socialism This was the first public speech by a top Soviet leader which rationalized the relationship of the USSR and non Orbit Communist parties within the framework of relaxa tion of tensions Internal Implications Kaganovich carefully steered around the troubled question of the composition of the Soviet leadership He did not even dimly echo any implied criti cism of Molotov and discreetly observed the collectivity prin ciple by balancing praise for Khrushchev's and Bulganin's speeches before our central committee Achievements of the Soviet Union were prudently as signed to the leadership of Lenin and the Communist Party Reflecting present Soviet preoccupation with the sixth FivemYear Plan to be promulgated at the Twentieth Party Congress in February 1956 Kaganovich focused attention on the labor productivity problem in indus try transport and agriculture He stressed the necessity for rapid introduction of up to date scientific and technological Approved For Release PART II NOTES AND comma Page 1 of 11 Approved leease CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUHHARY 10 November 1955 achievements and rationalization parade was the mildest address of labor This emphasis probably delivered by a military figure anticipates the major methods since Stalin's death There for expanding industrial output were no references to encircling which will be employed in the military bases imperialist forthcoming plan threats or military groupings and only an indirect call for Kaganovich called for strengthening the Soviet armed Satellite implementation of might a standard ingredient of the Lenin plan for construction such Speeches of Socialism He stressed co ordination of bloc economic The display of military plans and unlike recent dis force conforming to this pattern cussions of the same subject was of modest proportions No said nothing about special con- new Soviet aircraft were dis ditions in each of the Satel- played in the parade fly-by lites Such projected co opera which included one BISON jet tive economic planning may heavy bomber nine BADGER Jet signify an increased role for medium bombers and fewer than the Council of Mutual Economic 50 jet fighters Similarly Assistance in contrast to previous Soviet celebrations the parade re- Military Parade vealed no new ground equipment and was a perfunctory display Marshal Zhukov's 10-minute 25x1 oration preceding the 7 November 25X l CRET Approved For Release 2005I02f10 PART II NOTES AND COMMENTS Page 2 of 11 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington 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