COORDINATING COMMITTEE RECORD OF STATEMENT BY THE GERMAN DELEGATE CONCERNING AN ATTEMPTED DIVERSION OF BORON TO THE SOVIET OCCUPIED ZONE OF GERMANY 10TH SEPTEMBER 1959

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00647A000100170026-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 1998
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• Publication Date: September 14, 1959
• Content Type: MIN

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14th September, 1959,
COORDINATING_COMdITTEE
COCOM Document No. 3677
tECODD CF STATE NT BY TEE GERMAN DELEGATE
CONCERNING AN ATTEMPTED DIVERSION OF BORON
TO THE SOVIET OCCUPIED ZONE OP GERMANY
10th September 1959
Presents Belgium(Luxembourg), France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
1ieferences: COCO1 3460
The German Delegate informed the Committee that in July 1959 his
authorities had received a request from a German firm for an Import Certificate
for 4 000 tons of colemanite (a boron mineral) from Turkey. Since colemanite
was a mineral which was rarely imported into Germany, his authorities had made
a special check on the proposed transaction and had been able to find out that
the shipment was to have been diverted to the Soviet occupied Zone of Germany.
They had therefore refused to issue an Import Certificate. They felt that
this case indicated that the Soviet Bloc were trying hard to obtain boron since
the recent diversion case referred to in COCO1 3468 had failed. In conclusion,
the Delegate urged that all Aiember Dountries should exercise great care before
issuing Import Certificates for boron minerals.
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