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

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CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6
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RIPPUB
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C
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5
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December 22, 2016
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July 31, 2012
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24
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Publication Date: 
July 10, 1958
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MF
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 201,2/09/12 : CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6 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 -A-L Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/12 : CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2012/09/12 : CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6 Imr - 2 - .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. 2 C-0-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L 5X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/12 : CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/12 : CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6 itaior *NS - 3 - in such activities in the past. Mine V. Dammon Van Weroot, F. Mayol, A. Gerrabas, Andre Driegbe, E. Mathyf, F. Englert. J. 25X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/12 : CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/12 : CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6 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. 25X1 25X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/12 : CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/12 : CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6 25X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/12 : CIA-RDP63-00084A000200030024-6