INDONESIAN RICE PURCHASE FROM CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900720011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY
Indonesia
DATE DISTR.
14 June 1951
SUBJECT
Indonesian Rice Purchase Prom China
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1. i eeotiations are underway or the ?purchase of up to 500,000 tons of
rice by Indonesia from Communist China.
2. Tie Chinese want the Indonesians to make the payments in US dollars,
the money to renain in Indonesia as credit for Chinese purchases of
other commodities.
25X1 A Com^ent. Other sources have reported that Indonesia
anticipated purchasing from v'rioua countries in 1951 a total of
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450,000 metric tons of rice. See also Z DA I/-\
This docine,t 4: hereby regraded to
CONFIDEN' iAL ir, accordance with the
letter of 18 OciOber 197E from The
Director of central InteWg?.nce to the
Archivist of the United'
nited States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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