BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS THROUGH SWISS FIRM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000610007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 4, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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C[IUNTRY Switzerland/Romania/Great Britain
V,1ECT Business Transactions through Swiss Firm
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Dmg S..,;, mss export-:import firm, hai recently started negotia'..; ons with
,,he Romanian I3ini try of Tames and is at present receiving quotat '. ns for
about 50M00,000 Swiss france tirorth of mining machinery and oil d, X11:=tom
?, ;Rip nont. A British firm, the f,?itchell ' r:gineering Company, is . -itere3ted
in furnishing the oil drilling e ..ii,pmcnt? On 19 Septeiber 1947, ALr~ Ia.tcheil
of this comps and ,-.r, A, F. Ric!- =an, Director of Radiett & Pens on Ltd E,
who was acting as 11itchell's agent-, 'r.th L`mog, flew to Switzerland to dis-
cuss the transaction. >_neg S.A. is being offered Romanian oil asst other
products in return.
Ccmmerktx l .eg S. *. in Zurich, Switzerland, enEl,ages in int :national
nzidd]e-gran activities, xsei.a11y between wjoLltern Europe and the . ~: ilcans.)
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