CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

1 June 1955
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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WESTERN EUROPE
3. French see USSR using trade to press for German neutralization
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WESTERN EUROPE
3. French see USSR using trade to press for German neutralization:
French officials in Moscow and Paris fear
the USSR will switch trade and ship-
construction contracts from France to
West Germany as part of a policy designed
to neutralize Germany.
The French economic counselor in Moscow
recently discussed with Soviet trade officials the failure of the USSR
to show an interest in concluding contracts for ten ships included in
the 1954 French-Soviet trade agreement. He was told that the USSR
was now interested only in ships capable of 17.5 knots and that "other
Western countries" were willing to furnish vessels of this speed.
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Comment: The reported Soviet position
may be a tactic similar to those ,used in the past when a COCOM
country has refused to furnish embargoed items, COCOM restric-
tions on ship exports are still under review, and the USSR may
hope to increase the dissension on this issue among COCOM mem-
bers.
Some French officials are becoming in-
creasingly skeptical about the possibility of expanding trade with
the USSR and are expected to seek an explanation for the abrupt
decline in Soviet orders since December 1954. At that time Paris
had feared the decline was Soviet: retaliation for the Paris agree-
ments, but a general drop in Soviet imports from the West has
since become apparent.
The USSR's own economic situation per-
mits it to make only limited trade offers in Western Europe. It
probably believes that it must now seek to achieve its foreign
policy objectives more through West Germany than France. (Con-
curred in by ORR)
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