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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100030043-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 43
• Content Type: SUMMARY

Approved For Release 2008/03/06: CIA-RDP78-01617A006100030043-0
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GENERAL
1. Cochran oteoses US -bitch economic on --US
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Dutch ECA Commissioner Hirschfeld not visit Washington
to discuss proposed Netherlands economic and table comfe~encelon
policy at the forthcoming Hague round
Indonesia. Cochran points out that such a move would have
"disastrous" consequences, because the discussions could
not be kept secret and would
Dutch. Interpreted
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nesians as US support of the
such discussions would lead the Indonesians to feel the US
had established a policy which Cochran as a US official would
have to follow, thus impairing his usefulness as a completely
objective UN representative at the Hague conference.
2. S s on division of ECA aid--The Department of State
has instructs S represen yes in the ECA nations that,
in response to pleas for US aid in warding off proposed
reductions in ECA allocations, they should point out th.t:
(a) continued emphasis on European initiative and responsi-
bility for the success oo the European recovery program
is of major importance 4 (b) the recovery program has been
based on the principle that
for division US aid; and
make the initial recommendations
(c) the success of the program will be prejudiced of individual
countries are allowed to bypass the Organization for Euro-
pean Economic Cooperation (OEEC) or obtain special treat-
ment through representations directly to the US. The Depart-
ment adds that the current reductions are reduced and that the
premise that US aid would be gradually US will follow OEEC recommendations to the fullest possible
extent.
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