CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A015300120002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 13, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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Belgium-US: The Belgians are pushing for favorable
resolution of two bilateral issues. (Page 4)
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Belgium-US: The Belgians are pushing strongly
for favorableresolution of two bilateral issues, at
least one of which could have political repercussions.
Foreign Minister Harmel, in handing over an aide
memoire on 8 January concerning the request of Sabena
airlines for landing rights at Chicago, told the am-
bassador that the matter was of great political inter-
est to him. Harmel appeared intimately familiar with
the details surrounding last year's grant of this
right to the Dutch competitor, KLM, and also referred
to the recent similar grant to the Greek Olympic air-
line.
Harmel implicitly admitted that Belgium lacked
a concession to give in exchange for this right, but
said that he would find it difficult to explain the
situation to parliament and the public. The aide
memoire warned that Belgium might have to re-examine
its aeronautical cooperation with the US.
The other issue involves a representative of a
Belgian bank who was arrested in China in July 1968.
The Belgian Government is convinced that it cannot
obtain the release of this man unless a solution is
found to the problem posed by the blockage in the US
since 1951 of certain Belgian bank funds earmarked
for the Bank of China.
A second aide memoire handed to the ambassador
the same day suggests that the Belgian bank may be
able to raise the necessary funds independently if
the US will agree not to dispose of
the blocked account in any way other than to ulti-
matelv restore it to the Belgian bank.
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