REQUIREMENT TO (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00527A000100010142-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 142
• Publication Date: April 4, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2000/08/17,
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4 April 1955
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disposition of the gold reserves of the Spanish Ee ibl.ican
during the Spanish civil War especially $
1. t as complete a description as p?ssible_conce
s to trace the disposition of the hish gold
from the beginning of the war to such time as it was disposed of
or he lost track of it.
Amounts and specific uses made thereof.
Possibility of any or all of this gold having fallen into
d. Was the gold ever removed. to Cartes;
e. Was any ever sold in or to London, Paris, l etherlandss
Switzerland, United States or t axico?
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What other people does know of (aMplace
a could give further i orma an on the subject?
2. Note to interviewers The whereabouts of the Spanish go
reserves has always been a question in world gold circles. Mr
a
3. Further suggestion as to sources Ask t4
of questions in paragraph one above to .
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probably knows as much as anyone about it. Please be persistent and
prove to your satisfaction whether NNEW knows what hapae. to this
gold if it did not fan into Soviet hands, Ple s e discuss in your answer
your opinion as to the reliability of the information obtained.
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