UNOFFICIAL OPINIONS OF CZECHOSLOVAK OFFICIALS ON ECONOMIC POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400530007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 25, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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'S? This last point was also rnado by another -r caber of IUp ca Els '.:inistry, who is
adrnittodly oriextted to the ;ost. As an 9-acar iple of the -,!fanner in which high
political consi.lerations a2rs reflected in trade arrunge:s^nts, the treaty
bother) W-35.3 and % os1avia 1i1'is citeds dlil.t: this troat~ `iaay hiavo ce!ae:ated
tho bonds of friacidsilip botwoe-: Yugoslavian rail the USS:tJ t o I'orr r sorely needs
co::plcte ,factory plants from Cz choslovekia in order to rebuild hor 1niit stries,
such its eteol plants, sugar rE.fineries, paper r~~ e and like. These. can
bo paid for oily oil Very lo-u., tern coatmets Fa ld the Yucoelav debt to
Czechoslovaktaa Egli soon be vo?'y large without these a.arc e orders,&
renoral iroetar `: loch, chief of all th. intio- alLamed co:nl mines in Czechoslovakia
and one a1' the most, powerful of t!;c; Czethoslcvak: economic ieadera, was particularly
favorable to th oil agree.e.. ent i tinrec-i Cea..C.l:OSlC3I:ic:1.c`.i t Jirid i.ii11 ~:1T'.tLl.0
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believes tart the treat., w1l]. brii't{r, c--cow .,Ac fre-:dor: to .ta ]tria and that
Czecho lcvn:: lenders nlre4aie co`1si:;er t ':.. treaty a.3 a Pic-t. :chile agreeing in
principle, I;o:teral ..iiroctot'L .. xrtiriok, head of the :-,tioiaa +~h: kcal mnuustry,
bras , i t quite so sure ' Imt the oil agree: u.it could be cow sir: ered ado; ~t ,d, for
he st^'Eec that he v ail prep.,reti to 7ivo ..ustrt his su~,pfor in the event that the
USSR ptesentnd. any cis L iculties in conc'_udi;-r`' tho ':.raasuction. lie stated that
he war sorifItn'r one of his t irecters to VL;Afta to ttfr :+8rt 1.rtc Austrian r1:9potiartors
in their dealiri ?s with UOUVA (Adr'.f n; sti .,v3_ort of ~- f,4t er , t . torn
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