PROPOSED PIPELINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000600010127-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 127
• Publication Date: December 27, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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corupel the C overnnont of ira?' to ccn, ae to a set"Llernert on teat entire
:matt? era ~ quos~t ion 4l3s p~ogr essec, into serious "cons VeratIon of
t1.;,1G construction of c eauc r o ' pliao1 nes to carry the proemeto of
tat refi n 7 to a Or-,,u' tern ;inal construactee on Iranian t'err
tor?y arm, lyf%r ~^3r:.1 SIG' t`tr' iie':3 irsi v:ian territorial water s,fl The re,
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20 arcs 100 :;i I A lore pothnc'c sterling,
s~ no if `r ' of "8o a'd * "a3? is a.
For -i eported pl ,ns for the
construction ci. en the Y .,. an refinery arse.
OInt on, tr;c Persian _ 1f or ddret sche ?e have-referred in vacjue
terns to location of an or i ter.- In l on the gulf, occasionally with
sow su;-jcstl.on Chit the site would be at the scut ern endl of A:.mdan
Island 0 k~ tern :i .,al in this area would have to be an raft-shore one
vihe Iran naticnaiized Its oil industry0 At that time, the 3asra
pert . +ut.hority found It necessary to increase ,tlaeFett&e present
level :.,ecause 'its ihccr e had licen enorcously .cat 11e: F the -a rapt
cessation of tanker traffic when t he Abadan refinery 'shut dovrno
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ecnsortius, cnhgineers report that pi oposal.s currently under rem
view wculc require construction of seven iaipelInes . a.etsr en the Abadan
refincry any? the Khor.rasa to minalm.:Tile' lin+:s %in,ulcl v ryr in diameter
etwean 411 an 1611 and would extend over a distance of approximately
50 6iles4 Parallelism tic lines would be an all-weath3r road requir-
? ing two 5ridCes over the 3ahr anshir "river or widening of the present
)r$d e and construction of a second?
The seven limes would carry only ref l nert products and : radar
.%1shour would re ac h the sole loadiftcl port for crude until the corn-
pleticn of Mharg Island project-
One of the principal complications in the proposal is that the
ba an refirn