DATA ON JORDANIAN ECONOMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00875R001900010185-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 185
• Publication Date: February 15, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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0875R001900010185 3
115 February 1974
METlOR WDUI4 FOR: Major R.J. Esposito
Command and Staff College
Education Center, MCDEC
Quanti4.o, Virginia 22134
Dead Sea.
SUBJECT Data on Jordanian Economy
1. Attached per your request, is information on
Jordanian GNP, foreign financial assistance, oil ex-
ploration and other unclassified economic data.
2. Concerning your interest in other potential
mineral deposits, recent U.S. Geological Survey
estimates place copper deposits at about 150-million tons
and drilling is now going on to determine the size and
quality of additional deposits. At least one U.S.
firm has expressed interest in these deposits, located
in the Finan-Khirbet el Nohas area, south of the
Attachment:
As stated above
Near East/Africa Branch
Developing Nations Division
Office of Economic Research
Distribution: (S-Project 5941)
Orig. & 1 - Addressee
1 - D/OER
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