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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006000060010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 20, 1948
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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I. US to complain to USSR over jammmin of "Voace of A erica9A.-.
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rThe State Department as hrnstr_u_cte.i US_Embassy Moscow to
complain t~ Soviet authorities over the lamming of "'Voice of
A erica" lroadcasts, and to request immediate remedial action.
The Department has conclusive evidence that the jamming is
intentional
. US-UK plan to arm Austrian police--T'he US Military Attache
i s orx ?rn : elaorts that locod Ux M" officials are agreed
that attention should be directed now to the strengthening od-
Austria"s a ecunrity forces,
(CIA Comment: The need for a strengthened security
force has become particularly important in view of Austrian
forces ncn under Soviet control which the Austrian Ministry of
Y nterior believes number
EUROPE
3. CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Reported fear of ecfinc-mic ssanct1on b
Ua Ambassador Stehnshardt has been i nfor red by ,sever_ i7i
his Latin American colleagues that the new Communist Milrdster
of Foreign Trade is "frantically*~ seeking to enter into trade
negotiations with Columbia, Brazil and Venezuela. Steinhardt
adds that this action confirms his belief that the Czechojlov t
Communists, fear the consequences of economic sanctions by
the West and realise that such sanctions might precipitate a
crisis 4 hich even tho Communist Government might not be
able to weather.
(CM Comment: CIA believes that, while Czechoslovakia
ould suffer intense economic dislocations as a result of such
sanctions, their application would not bring about the dog fall
of the present regime.)
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