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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000100140029-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: January 29, 1959
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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INCOMING TELEGRAM Department of State
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Classification Control: 16854
Recd: JANUARY 29, 1959
9:55 AM
COLUX 150, JANUARY 29
SENT DEPARTMENT COLUX 150, REPEATED INFORMATION BONN COLUX 4o9
BRUSSELS COLUX 309 THE HAGUE COLUX 269 LONDON 299 PARIS COLUX
6,as, ROME COLUX 28, GENEVA 28,
BRUSSELS ALSO FOR USEC
PARIS ALSO USRO
SPIERENBURG AND WEHRER TODAY INFORMED MISSION THAT HIGH
AUTHORITY HAD DECIDED TO ESTABLISH DUTY FREE IMPORTS INTO
GERMANY FOR 1959 AT TOTAL FIVE MILLION TONS INSTEAD 4,25
ANNOUNCED BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE
MADE THIS MORNING BUT OFFICIAL. TEXT HA DECISION WHICH STILL
BEING EDITED WILL PROBABLY NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL LATE
THIS EVENING OR TOMORROW MORNING. FOLLOWING ARE POINTS
STRESSED BY SPIERENBURG WHICH CAN BE COMMUNICATED IN
UNCLASSIFIED MESSAGE.
1, FIGURE ESTABLISHED BY HA IS BASED ON EXTENSIVE ANALYSIS
OF COMMUNITY COAL BALANCE AND IS NOT ARBITRARILY PULLED OUT
OF HAT. BASIC UNDERLYING DETERMINATION WAS THAT EXISTING
UNEMPLOYMENT (FREE SHIFTS) IN GERMAN MINES SHOULD NOT BE
INCREASED IN 1959 AS RESULT OF IMPORTS.
2. HA WILL INSIST THAT THERE BE NO DISCRIMINATION IN
TREATMENT OF VARIOUS THIRD COUNTRY EXPORTERS TO GERMANY
(WHICH OBVIOUSLY AIMED AT FORESTALLING ANY CHARGE OF
PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR :SOVIET BLOC). US PORTION FIVE
REPRODUCTION FROM THIS
UNCLAS31 F I ED COPY IS PROHIBITED.
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UNCLASSIFIED
-2- COLUX 150, JANUARY 29, FROM LUXEMBOURG
MILLION TON QUOTA WILL BE SUBJECT TO LATER DETERMINATION.
3, MEASURES-WILL BE SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBED AS "TEMPORARY".
L HA DECISION WILL INCORPORATE PRINCIPLE THAT FIGURE
FOR DUTY FREE IMPORTS SHOULD BE FLEXIBLE AND CAPABLE OF
SUBSEQUENT CHANGE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES AND THAT THEREFORE WAY
LEFT OPEN FOR INCREASED IMPORTS IF COAL SITUATION IMPROVES,
5. PREAMBLE OF HA DECISION WILL CITE COMMUNITY NEED TO S
SAFEGUARD LONG TERM ENERGY SUPPLIES FROM US.
UNCLASSIFIED
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