AUSTRIAN STATE TREATY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00887A000500010012-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 12
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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Austria State Treaty
The State Treaty of 15 May 1955, which became effective
on 27 July 1955, granted Austria independence and provided for
the prompt withdrawal of the troops of the four occupying powers
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(the USSR, the United States t the United Kingdom and France).
An additional undetaking was embodied in the Neutrality Act
of October 1955, a statute having the force of a constitutional
amendment, which commits Austria to enter into no military
alliance and to permit no foreign bases on its territory.
The Austrians claim that since the latter Act was a unilateral
measure on their part, they shall be the sole interpreters of
their neutrality. They have turned aside the efforts of the
Soviet Union, as a treaty guarantor, to interpret Austrian
neutrality.
e State Treaty prohibits political or An-La rni r union
equires the Austrian government
Bran-German agitation within its territory.
It denies the armed forces certain types of weapons, particularly
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tssiles. Vienna has approached the four guarantors for
permission to 'quire defense missiles, but thus far has failed
to obtain Soviet acquscence. Alsag included in the Treaty
was a provision for the ret,1n to Austria of certain assets
that the Soviet occupation author-lies had seized. In return
for these holdings, the Austrians agree to make substatial
reparat.ibns payments, chiefly in the form of `-41. These payments
were completed in December 196
The Treaty provides for the calling of a conference of
the guarantors in the event of a violation of the treaty's
principles. Such a call has never gone out, but Austrian
officials have worried that Moscow might take advantage of this
provision, particularly at such times when the Soviets have
protested "German interference" in Austrian affairs,
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