AFGHAN-SOVIET RELATIONSHIPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005700780008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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The USSR has offered to finance., build, maintain and operetc ~. =asoline
pipeline from. Tersne USSR W into Afghanistan as far south as r`u l-i-Khumlri
Khumri, The Soviets have also offered, if the pipeline is a,ppi reds, to
furnish all the defensive vean ons Afghanistan would need 4,t rer.J.3t air
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The Gisv+ernment of Afghanistan (GOA) has rejected these cfe?g0 However
a strong el nent within the vernmont fools that if Pall i;i ~; :ti continues
its present economic blockade, the GOA will be forced: i ifio :he USSR
a.?eerent.,
The Afghan peoples of the northern provinces are ressod abo,s t the new
Afghan-S et agreement z. First they foresee th& t h') gove:?.r ent ,iill take
their produce at. a f:i d py-lee lower than the cu, ?en`. market. Frir;e in
Kabul. Second, the movement of Soviets across t',-,a A t g , .r>.--So9iet border
will be increased, as well as their activities it Northern A~' 3 r.: 3etan?
CONFIDENTIAL
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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