SOVIET PRACTICES IN AIDING PEOPLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00527A000200140051-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 1998
• Sequence Number: 51
• Content Type: REPORT

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$25-Afghanistan; $100-Syria
1 (b) 9 ,r arAii4. t ientts
Also heavy traders with Bloc, Af,
Czechoslovakia and Poland - $45 (estimated)-In
Czechoslovakia - $250-99Ypt; $10-Yemen; $45-Syria;
Ceylon
Indonesia, Tugcslar:
area of training within Bloc ; B - 545, P d-525
Czechoslovakia-435, 8. .-3
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Egypt, Afghanistan, Syria and Indonesia
purchases and provide economic aid-offer rejected and
Sudan temporarily coped with problem by lowering price-
Persistent Soviet offers softened Sudanese resistance-
exports off due to artificially high pricesviets
token purchase, followed up with offer to increase
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Mid-1957 Sudan experiencing cotton marketing difficulties-
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now agreed to enter negotiations for economic assistance
and barter trade agreement
Latin -Arica,
Brazil, Uruguay difficulties selling principal
export crops-large petroleum re nts but shortage
of foreign exchange to buy from traddtional Western
suppliers- aviete offered supply petroleum., accept
c dities in return-all but Brazil accepted offer and
appears it will follow suit
3 (b) of io
1957, general
a n t signed January 1958, Soviet specialists
arrived to discuss projects within next few months
Arkholstan - Bol in and Khruschev seeds offer of $100
Million credit during visit December 1955, agreent
signed January 1956, Soviet technicians cant soon
thereafter to discuss projects to be undertaken
piling mission visited Eastern gnrope
s arms began arriving, Soviets
supplied ships for interrupted interisland trade
promptly within 2 weeks from time of requee .
12 received from USSR already, Poland also to
supply some
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.d--to Aft ia>ietan
Construction of flu hydroelectric project under Soviet
credit delayed due inelastic local money supply and fear
of inflation. Soviets now agreed to send machinery, con-
goods and steel for sale an local market, chargeable
to $100 million credit, local currency generated by sale
to be used to cover local costs of project
Soviets to train Turks in
be built an 3-yeast' credit
to glass factory
steel technology in for
at Bailai
C ist China grant to Cambodia - $22.4 mill
$16 million grant to Ceylon for rubber replant
Soviet Union gift of hospital. to Afghanistan also Cambodia
Soviets sent medical supplies to y'pt at time of Suez crisis
Weste i n Caution
of aid unpredictable
ju,0 sl'avia - Soviets postponed $245
obvious act of reprisal for
dependence on ideological vat
strings" protestations,. Soviets saint,
however, they are
vials goods on
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,eta cancelled without indemnification
scarce, dollars obtain machinery and ee uipeeeent, Sovi
governn ent. abrogated 197 million trade
subject to diplomatic d+as:are s, possibility
of similar Soviet Action in future since Soviet
diplomacy subject so now unpredictable, tactical
shifts
Ce anist China also playing politics with
economic weapons-to embarrass and undermine
conflagration of 1956-eo c agreemen
contract to supply oil after leer
agreementp refused resew annual trade accord,
cancelled 1.5 billion steel trade agree nt-
econmic squeeze on Japan
turn to
apaper interview Khruecev recently proposed
expanded barter trade-appealed to Greeks having difficulty
marketing agricultural products-no need for Greece use
deal with Ce mist China-cotton for coal), inflation,
cotton marketing difficulties (alreatr led to barter
ilirML budget, Soviets offering aid, develo antal.
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economic aid, Irks not accepted but has entered into
specific agreements with Soviet Union as result of
with view to development of irrigation
ambitious developeent schemes, shortage for exchange,
conditions in last four years diverted substantial
trade to Bloc (18% in 1957) - recent discussions con-
cerning Soviet offer of 0250 million in aid-recent bid
6 persistent Soviet offers of large-scale
d relations (joint surveys of border rivers
agreasent) Soviet offers continue
foreign debt, requirements for
in "Zsveatia" for expanded trade-according to
t created by Turkey's waste,
3se unnecessary mils rt .Yea enditures
this bleeding Turkey soon r and cause of
economic problems
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