DEAR MR. PRESIDENT:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00803R000400150062-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: October 25, 1963
• Content Type: LETTER

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DRAFT CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Mr. President:
You will recall our recent conversations relating to
personnel. of the United States Mission in Cyprus. As you
know, at present we are operating 'on the basis of your
letter of January 11,.1960, to the American Consul General
stating that the United States radio facilities established
in Cyprus during the period of British sovereignty are
welcome In Cyprus. Your letter further stated that the
Go,~ rn:^er.t
c_f Cyprus underta';es:
to a :ure responsibility for the
exiting lea inL-;. arrangements, including.
reimbursement of private landlords;
(b) to acquire on behalf of. and at the
expense of the United States, such interests in
additional land in Cyprus as may be required to
permit the proper functioning of the communica-
tions facilities;
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(c) to assume responsibility for in-Suring
such quantities of water for the said facilities
as the Mission may request;
(d) to insure continuing free access to and
egress from the,communications facilities;
(e) to provide adequate police and fire
protection;
(f)
to take such measures as are necessary
to insure that the United States, is able to
operate co-:munications equipment at the agreed
electrical or electronic interfer-
ence from devic s in the immediate area or from
local radio stations operating on or near
frequenc{.e:- of particular interest to the
United States comrnun`_cations center; and
to rrovide, at the request of the
M1 ssto ., rjhysical security measures around the
outer periphery of the agreed sites.
2. Subject to the availability of appropriations,
the Government of the United States will reimburse the
Government of Cyprus up to an amount of
annually for the life of this agreement for assistance
rendered pursuant to the undertakings in Paragraph (1)
above, including the cost of the rental to private
landlords.
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My Government will consider that this letter and your
reply thereto constitute an agreement between the two govern-
ments to be effective on the date of'your letter for a period
of ten years and thereafter to be subject to termination by
either government on one year's notice.
Fraser Wilkins
Ambassador of the United States
L: L/NEA: DAWehmeyer: tdo 10/125/63
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