RUSSIAN-SLOVAK TRADE RELATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200510013-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 20, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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tamed with alcohol but were followed everywhere, and only three of them had
managed to get permission to visit Leningrad, where two of them had children,.
After de?re of complete neglect they were suddenly called for a conference at
two o'clock in the morning, at which nothing was settled. During the ensuing
days of enforced inaction they were not even allowed to visit the environs of
Moscow. During this time they tell in with a Rumanian delegation which had
been there for three months without having made any progress at all.
7. The Soviets are carrying out a program of exploitation of Slovak industries by
baying their products at very low prices and selling them abroad as goods of
Soviet manufacture. Goode resold at a profit recently Included machinery of
Nanet manufacture, re-exported to Argentina; medical inetrments to Iran, the
Near East, and possibly Turkey; and hope, malt, and clover seeds to various
overseas narkete.
$. The director of Koosport recently prote4ted to the Soviets that this policy
was robbing Czechoslovakia of foreign currency. The Soviets rejected the
protest and had a atatenent issued by the Director of the Soviet Commission
to the effect that such a policy wasmoessary to the sucoeve of the USSR's task
of gaining the world's confidence. Two weeks later, the director of Koosport
was replaced without explanation.
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