OPERATIONS OF STATE COMMITTEE FOR FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS (GKES)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000300050025-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: November 28, 1975
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

FORM 30201.
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PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIEO_
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SUBJECT: OPERATIONS OF STATE COMMITTEE
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FOR FOREIGN ECONOMIC
RELATIONS (GKES)
It DURING E_ET~ NOVE?41 26 WITH VISITING SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS
COMMITTEE " TA_FF'R. GI MORE ? ND COMMERCIAL ATTACHE, DEPUTY CHA IRMAN
M ~W -OiEIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS(GKES) I.A.
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KUL'YEV PROVIDED SOME INFORMATION ON ACTIVITIES OF GKES.
2, ACCORDING TO KUL'YEV, ON VOLUME BASIS, GKES DOES 61
PERCENT OF ITS BUS INESS WITH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. 36 PERCENT
WITH OTHER "SOCIALIST" COUNTRIES,'' AND THE REMAINING 3 PERCENT
WITH WESTERN COUNTRIES. HE NOTED # HOWEVER. THAT CONTACTS BETWEEN
GKES AND WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE VERY RECENT DEVELOPMENT AND INDICATED
THAT HE EXPECTED WESTERN COUNTRIES TO PLAY LARGER ROLE IN GKES
OPERAT IONS I N FUTURE.
3. ALTHOUGH IN PAST GKES HAS EXTENDED BOTH GOVERNMENT AND COMMERCIAL
CREDITS TO EASTERN EUROPEAN AND OTHER "SOCIALIST" COUNTRIES,
BULK OF PROJECTS WHICH GKES AND ITS SUBORDINATE FOREIGN TRADE
ORGANIZATIONS WILL CARRY OUT IN THESE COUNTRIES IN THE FUTURE
WILL B E TRANSACTED O N COMMERCIAL BASIS THROUGH CLEARING ARRANGE-
MENTS WHICH USSR HAS WITH EACH COUNTRY. KUL'YEV NOTED THAT IN
IMMEDIATE POST-1949 PERIOD, GKES HAS EXTENDED "VERY LARGE"
CREDITS TO PRC, ALL OF WHICH HAD NOW BEEN REPAID,
4. KUL'YEV CLAIMED THAT GKES WAS GOING TO PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE
IN MAJOR PROJECTS WHICH SOVIET UNION PLANS TO UNDERTAKE
WITH WESTERN COUNTRIES OUTSIDE USSR. AS EXAMPLES. HE SAID THAT
GKES HAD PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY FOR IRAN-USSR-FRG GAS DEAL AND
FOR KALININGRAD NUCLEAR POWER STATION WHICH IS UNDER
DISCUSSION WITH FRG. AS REGARDS FORMER, KUL' YEV SAID ALL POINTS
HAD BEEN AGREED AND FINAL CONTRACTS WOULD BE SIGNED SHORTLY.
AS FAR AS KALI NI NGRAD PROJECT CONCERNED, HE SA ID SEVERAL PROBLEMS
REMAINED T 0 BE RESOLVED. ONLY SPECIFIC POINT H E MENTIONED,
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TO FRG. HE DID NOT MENTION WEST BERLIN ASPECT.
5. KUL'YEV'S OFFICE AT GKES IS-DOMINATED BY LARGE MAP OF AFRICA.
ON WHICH THE ROUTE OF THE TAN-EAM RAILROAD HAS BEEN MARKED IN
HEAVY BLUE TAPE. I N VIEW OF KUL' YEV' S RESPONSIBILITIES FOR AFRICA
WITHIN GKES (IN ADDITION To WESTERN EUROPE AND THE U.S.)
THE ADDITION OF THE TAN-RAM RAILROAD PROBABLY INDICATED A REMINDER
OF A BIG PROJECT WHICH WAS LOST BY THE GKES
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