REPORT OF INDICATIONS OF SOVIET-COMMUNIST INTENTIONS

Created: 6/19/1952

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SSR:ote to Sweden, the USSR has publicly announced that Its air defense policy la to Intercept all foreign aircraft violating the Soviet frontier and In case of resistance to open fire. Although the several recent attacks on aircraft which are not known to have violated Soviet territory or Soviet territorial waters indicate that this policy may be very liberally interpreted, the failure of Soviet aircraft to fire on some reconnaissance aircraftnear the Soviet coast suggests that the USSR applies somecriteria of whatviolation" beforo an attack Is made.

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2. Indications of In'on;ions in Europe, a. SOVIET MILITARY ACTIVITY.

There has been no Information, other than from press sources,large-scale Soviet exercises in the Baltic, and'it remains uncertain whether the shooting down of the Swedish plane or planes over the Baltic was connected with these alleged maneuvers P

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SOVIET AIR INTERCEPTIONS. As previously reported, the recentIn Soviet interceptions of, and attacks on, non-CommunistSoviet-controllod territoryo the adoptionoreairweek, in

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