SHIPMENTS OF U.S. ARMY EQUIPMENT TO BLOC PURCHASERS.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: July 10, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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DCP Control No. 6170
10 July 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR : DCP Watibers
Mr. Robert W. Shaw, ICA/MDAC
Mrs. Rosalind S. Springsteen, State/ECD
Mr. Eduard P. Walinsky, Commerce/OES
Mr. Stanley L. Sommerfield? Treasury/FAC
Mr. Eric Rehfeld, OSDASA
FROM: CIA DCP Member
Al!,11SCT: Shipments of U.S. Army Eggipment to
Bloc purchasers.
REFERENCES: USARMA Brussels Nr. CX-4 (6 June 1958);
DA IN 123010 (8 June 1958)
CLEARANCES
1. Permission has been granted to disseminate the information
contained in the referenced Army. Intelligence report to the Diversion
Control Panel classified CONFIDENTIAL. Any farther dissemination
of this information should be cleared with the Department of Defense
representative.
2. Please advise this Agency of the use made of this information.
BACKGROUND
3. The referenced unevaluated Army Intelligence report indicated
Z;hat a Belgium national, Schwarz, residing at 66 Boulevard Ypres,
Bli1a3e15, had purchased 100,000 US army uniforms in New York, and
he was in the market for 400,000 more. These uniforms, it was
alleged, were destined for East Germany.
4. Berlin Despatch 644 (31 March 1958), reported that the firm
Gabriel Dubois, 38 Rue AfrIcaine, Brussels 5, Belgium, had offered,
In aqdition to arms and ammunition, "10,000 American helmets,
absolutely complete", at t'4.20 f.o.b., European port, to a West Berlin
firm, Sitig GmbH, Ravensbergerstrasse 1, Wilmersdorf, West Berlin.
A later Berlin Despatch, D-672 (11 April 1958), reports that Dubois
4111 accept Saudi Arabia as a destination for the ammunition, providing
a certificate of destination naming that country can be obtained. Berlin
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.commento that on the basis of the Saudi Arabian end-use certificate,
Dubois mould be prepared to deliver the ammunition f.o.b. Trieste.
COMMENT
5. The steel he12ets are covered by item XI c on the U.S. Manitiona
List (item 130 International ML). The Any uniforms, although covered
by item 4915 on the U.S. Master Export Security List, are exportable
from the U.S. under General License GBO to non Bloc destinations;
houever they may have been purchased by Sebum= abroad as military surp7.us
eouipment. In either event, sale to the Soviet Bloc is prohibited.
6. The Defense Department report covered by paragraph 3 above,
although covering unrated terial, has various paramilitary and/or
espionage i lications; furthermore, it bac several interesting
oimilarities with the shipment of helmets reported in the Berlin de hes)
i.e. procureaent of both items vas centered in Brussels; the uniforms
are allegedly destined for Best Germany, and the helmets to a West
Berlin firm sitich he frequently been observed dealing in illegal trade
vith East Germany; and both items mere U.S. Army types with obvious 25X1
inter-relationshipo.
8. Sitig Export-import GmbH has a long history of trade with the
Bloc. Berlin Despatch 153, 9 October 1957, reported a previous offer
of munitions items to Sitig from Nautus SA, Geneva. Sitig had also
been associated sith aUspected diversions of copper, nickel, cobalt
and aluminum during .1953 and 1954.
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in such activities in the past.
Mine V. Dammon
Van Weroot, F.
Mayol, A.
Gerrabas, Andre
Driegbe, E.
Mathyf, F.
Englert. J.
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Assuming that the uniforms are destined for
the Bloc, a violation of U.S. export controls or Military surplus
controls yould be involved. The helmets, if exported directly
the U.S., would have required a validate export license from State
Department (MC), thich might identify SAtdi Arabia as consignee, and
Lebanon or Italy as intermediate destinations.
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