TRADE BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND SOVIET SATELLITE COUNTRIES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014200110003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY Yugoslavia/R nia/fiungary/Bulgaria/Albania
SUBJECT Trade between Yugoslavia and
Soviet Satellite Countries
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OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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It is reported that there has been a considerable amount of trade in the
past two years between Yugoslavia and Satellite countries. Items exported
and imported include priority products and large scale shipments of raw
materialsg strategic materials and semi manufactured goods, It has not
been determined whether the nature of the trade is official or unofficial.,
but it is possible that Yugoslavia or certain Yugoslav business men have
been tempted by the possibility of large profits in business deals with
the East rather than the Weste ion To REca cENTEB
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a, Grain,, including corn, in large quantities,, delivered to Rumania at 3 ?S7/
Turnu Severin from Yugoslavia,, via river transportation;
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b, Ten or 12 carloads of foodstuffs, enroute to Rumania from Krusevac;
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c, Twenty tons of chrome mineral furnished by Yugoslavia to representatives
of an Austrian firm in Trieste for forwarding to the Soviet Zone of
Austria
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August 1951
e. Ninety vehicles loaded with United States foodstufh, dispatched by rail
from Kraljevo en route to Romanic;
September-October 1951
f. One hundred and sixty vehicles of the Dodges Studebaker and Chevrolet models,
dispatched by rail from Nis, en route to Rumania;
November 1951
g. Two.columns (sic) of vehicles loaded with foodstuffs and various United
States merchandise, forwarded by rail from Krusevac to Turnu Severin;
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h. Barges loaded with petroleum arrived during the night at Smederevo from
Rumania;
i. Miscellaneous armament, including automatic arms of German origin, obtained
by Yugoslavia as war loot, was loaded on barges in various Yugoslav river
ports and forwarded to Turnu Severin;
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Scrap steel in unknown quantities, furnished by Yugoslavia to the USSR.
War equipment and agricultural products including grain, maize., and sugar,
forwarded from Yugoslavia to Rumania via river transportation from Senta;
1. Various items which were picked up at Bosiljgrad, were furnished by Yugoslavia
to Bulgaria;
Januarv?March 1952
/m. Undetermined quantities of polyvinyl chloride, lye, caustic soda., calcium
and glycerin carbide were forwarded to Rumania from Yugoslavia;
March 1952
n. Forty thousand tons of petroleum were furnished to Yugoslavia by Rumania;
o. One ton of nickel furnished by Yugoslavia to Rumania and routed via
Turnu Severin;
p. Two motor boats loaded with various equipment presumed to be war equipment
of Yugoslav manufacture, routed from Split, as it appears directly for
Albania;
19 and 21 April 1952
q. In the area of Siklos, Soviet and Hungarian officials are reported to have
been seen in the company of a Yugoslav diplomatic delegation;
April 1952
r. Undetermined quantities of maize, grains, bauxite, manganese, arsenic and
antimony were dispatched from Yugoslavia to Hungary by river transportation;
a. Hungarian petroleum arrived in Yugoslavia via river transportation; and
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t. Undetermined quantities of foodstuffs were dispatched to Hungary from
Yugoslavia.
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Comments In this connection your attention is called to
ceording to which the Yugoslav Government remair"i categor--,:. -ally
opposed to trading with the East., and is greatly ? earned with the
question of combatting the indifference of trade ?as on this subje;:
Ireports on shipments of calcium carbide Hungary.
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