SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01090R000700010127-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2005
• Sequence Number: 127
• Publication Date: December 19, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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BIWEEKLY REPORT
SINO - SOVIET BLOC
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
EIC-WGR 1/127
19 December 1960
PREPARED BY THE WORKING GROUP
ON SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
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WARNING
THIS MATERIAL CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECT-
ING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES
WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE LAWS,
TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTIONS 793 AND 794, THE TRANSMIS-
SION OR REVELATION OF WHICH IN ANY MANNER TO
AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.
These biweekly reports on "Sino-Soviet Bloc Economic Ac-
tivities in Underdeveloped Areas" are prepared and issued
by a Working Group of the Economic Intelligence Commit-
tee, including representatives of the Departments of State,
the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, Commerce, and Agricul-
ture; the International Cooperation Administration; the
Office of the Secretary of Defense; and the Central Intelli-
gence Agency. Their purpose is to provide up-to-date fac-
tual information on significant developments in the eco-
nomic relations of Sino-Soviet Bloc countries with under-
developed countries of the Free World. The EIC-R-14 series
of reports, under the same title, provide periodic summaries
and analytical interpretations of these developments.
Printed and Disseminated by the
Central Intelligence Agency
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Summary of Events
2-15 December 1960
Upon the completion of its negotiations in Communist China, the
Cuban economic mission broke into two groups. One group, led by
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Rodriguez Llompart, traveled to
North Vietnam and Mongolia, while the others, led by Che Guevara,
traveled to North Korea. In all three places the Cubans negotiated
trade, payments, and scientific and technical assistance agreements.
In addition, cultural accords and protocols establishing diplomatic
relations (already in effect with North Korea) were signed with North
Vietnam and Mongolia.
Although two months have passed since the USSR first announced
its offer to build a tin smelter in Bolivia, the Bolivian Government
still has not taken a firm stand on such assistance.
The Soviet freighter Dolinsk arrived in Conakry, Guinea, on
7 December and unloaded a large number of cases thought to contain
ammunition, an unknown number of larger crates believed to contain
arms, and approximately 20 light field artillery pieces.
The USSR airlifted military equipment and supplies from Hanoi
to Vientiane before the attack on Vientiane by General Phoumi's
forces on 13 December.
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Information has recently become available that Indonesia is dis-
satisfied with the military equipment and supplies received from
Communist China in 1958 and 1959 and will request a substantial re,
duction of the indebtedness which resulted from the agreement.
Cambodian Chief of State Sihanouk has had. considerable success
in obtaining additional Bloc aid during his recent visits to Czecho-
slovakia and the USSR. In Moscow he accepted a. Soviet gift of a tech-
nological institute, and in Czechoslovakia he was presented with a
gift of six X-ray machines and an offer to, help develop the Cambodian
palm-sugar industry by installing a small sugar refinery.
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CONTENTS
I. Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A. Cuban Economic Mission . . . .. . . . . . . 1
B. Soviet Offers of Aid to Bolivia . . . . . . . . . Z
II. Africa (Third. Soviet Arms Shipment to Guinea) . . 3
III. Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
A. Soviet Airlift of Arms to Laos . . . . . . . . . 3
B. Indonesian Dissatisfaction with Chinese
Communist Military Assistance . . . . . . . . 4
C. Additional Aid from the Bloc for: Cambodia . . . . 5
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