GENERAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060059-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: January 24, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. Western Commandants' view of Berlin situation According
to US Commanding General Taylor in Berlin, the three West-
ern Commandants in Berlin agree that the recent Soviet
interference in Western traffic to Berlin reflects a deliberate
Soviet plan to sabotage the economic rehabilitation of Berlin,
undermine the confidence of Berliners and WestGermans,
and embarrass the Western Powers. Taylor adds that the
Western Commandants have agreed to maintain close collabo-
ration on this matter and to consider at their 26 January 1950
meeting the merits of making a joint protest to Soviet authori-
tie s.
2. 15 February proposed for resuming Austrian treaty talks--
US representative Reber in London reports that the Western
Deputies to the Austrian treaty talks have agreed upon
15 February as the date of the next Deputies' meeting in
order to keep the London talks alive, while giving the USSR
an opportunity to conclude its financial negotiations with the
Austrians in Vienna. (Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Gromyko has insisted that the Vienna talks must be com-
pleted before the Deputies in London can discuss as a group
the outstanding issues of the Austrian treaty.) The Depart-
ment of State has informed Reber that the completion of the
Austrian treaty withthe subsequent withdrawal of Soviet
occupation forces remains the major US objective in Austria
and that if a treaty cannot be concluded at this time, the
Department will consider alternative courses of action to
achieve Western aims in Austria.
Meanwhile, US Minister Erhardt in Vienna has
learned from the Austrian Foreign Office that during a
.recent conversation with the Austrian Foreign Minister in
Moscow, Gromyko, for the first time, failed to give assur-
ances that the Austrian offer in the financial ne
otiati
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ons was
being studied. The Austrian Foreign Office added that Gromyko
appeared "embarrassed and unusually reticent" at the meeting,
State Dept. review completed
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