EGYPTIAN REQUEST FOR RADIO TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING STATION IN NEW YORK

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00499R000800140012-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: May 27, 1957
• Content Type: NOTES

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27 May 1957
E tisn Request for Radio Transinittin; and Receiving.
"to cion in Mew York
Dr. Hassan A. Inwood, Counseler, Egyptian Embassy
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Aimembassy, Cairo (ice)
I asked Dr. Dswood to call on raze this mox-,LLn to hard him - .he Department's
i?e;iiy to en E ~tia request for the issuance of a license for a radio trans-
rit f ng and receiving station for two .-way traffic from. New York to Cairo.
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1 told Dr. Dawood that under our present Cor nznications Act of 19311-, no
;'orei-fin government was issued a license to operate a radio transmitting and
receivin st tion. I said that at the present time some consideration was
being given to the possibility of amending this 1v-7 which might make it possible
to issue licenses for such stations, but that it was not possible to give him
rny info r:;:a-bion as to whether or when the 1931 law night be amended. Ecwever,
: ;anted h in -'Co Inow that -there was a possibility, even though remote, that
the law might be amended. At the same tine I wished to emphasize that under
ire-n:re>ent law the Department of State was not able to give favorable con-
sic:.I....~ation to the Egtian request.
D. Dawood thanked me for this in or s:lation and said he thought tha 4 since
the law was applied to all foreiCm governments, our reply would be understood.
s e said he thought that if the United States received requests from many foreign
~rover"lu.en cs for such licenses, we might feel obliged to do something a'oo:zt a-
ending the law, particularly if we wished reciprocity. He said he u::zderstood
At~bached:
Co-_p,y of Note
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of State ad :lo + t~ J es ,_13 receipt of A. e r e ora '~ ' dated
fx`01, t , Embassy of E y t concernin.,- the possible a
;z radio transmitting and receivin se; ton for laao-w y 1i .1,.1...1. s0 :
to Cairo .
,17 is provided in C ctio 310
r n: esen United 5 e ,s lay l
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VmmaulicI ,Dons Act of 193k- that ' he stl tion license r c.uired .
:hall not be Cra tec1 to or held? by eny alien or the representative of
vi c ; i.y foreign Covex# enL" or the representative thereof; ...}, in
vlc of the ` Orohiiaiti on by of the 1s: seance of a station licer.sie to ? y
' ~' :ov lAi ;eat or ir:.p2"use:l4 tatc....'VGa { 1lf`2.qt.1Or., the Ixe-.r '<
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:.t is te,.`:ale at this vbxie to use its good offices for the est .: sim.~ of ;he
bov -L:~ntio c siation. In the event of the x'Nature c)a ;;n1.T;i; n4 of a loan gove1">1>
ing the issuance of licenses to ra.dao stations, the Department will be pleased
State,
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