COMMUNICATION IN AFRICA

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• Publication Date: January 19, 1950
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MEMORANDUM FOR: D/Pub, ORE
ATTENTION
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16 January 1950
SUBJECT : Communism in Africa
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1. This office has a strong requirement :or infor-
mation on the current status of Communism in Africa.
Aspects on which information is particularly needed are
as follows:
a. Strenth of indigenous Communist groups.
b. Estimates of potential Comunist strength
and likely courses of action.
c. Overt and covert Soviet activity in Africa
among or throu,(2:h Communist groups.
d. Foreign Communist penetration and activity
other than Soviet.
e. Known efforts by the British, French, Belgians
and. South Africans ap;ainst Communist activity.
f. Other significant points not covered above.
2. It is requested that an estimate on the current
situation in subject area be Produced for this office as
early as possible. Any obscure or partial studies 1cl:own
to your researchers would be welcome in the interim.
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1. ln response to a request from OPC for a paper on
nComenniem in Africa", which was directed to the ORE Committee
on International Communism by WPM; a special meeting was held
in which participants were those members of the Committee whose
cooperation was required in the writing of this IP.
2. There was a general discussion of the form and the
content of the paper. The members present agreed that they would
analyse in detail Communism in the African regions of their juris-
diction and add an area interpretation. It was agreed that the
final contributions are to be in finished form.
3. The members agreed on 15 February as a deadline for
the contributions. Following the subrdssion and study of the
contributions, there will be another meeting before the paper is
coordinated and presented in final farm by the International Coma-
? nism Section for the approval of the Committee. The tentative dead-
line of the final paper was agreed to be 3 Berch.
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MEMOgANDUM FOR: D/Pub, ORE
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SUBJECT : Captain Westerling
REFERENCE
2 February 1v50
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1. In confirmation of our conversation of this
date, it is requested that this office be furnished a
brief estimate of the situation surrounding Captain
WESTERLING and his rebel band operating in Java, cover-
ing:
2.
extreme
a. Field of Operations.
b, Military Strength.
c. Political following.
d. Appeal to the Indonesians.
e. Relationship, if any, to the Dutch.
C. Possible future menace to the Indonesian
government.
Degree of need is great but not justifying
measures.
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8 February 1950
Th E WESTERLINI; AFFAIR
Wasterlingle operations - On 6 January R. P. P. ("Turk") Wee
a former
captain in the Netherlands Army in Indonesia sent letters to the U8/ Oovern
ment, to the Paeundan Government in West Java and to the UN Commisnion for
Indonesia demanding reeo Ation of his irregular troops, the Angkatan Pereng
Ratu Adil (APRA), as the legal force for law and order in the West Java region.
dere.
The letters f'urther stated that unless such reao itioryaew rrented by 12 JaYluary
APRA forces would reject any responsibility with regard to consequences.
Vinsterlinee forces were first reported to have clashed with Republican Army
(TM) forces in a short reconnaissance skirmish about 4 Wise east of Bekassi
in the Djakarta vicinity on 16 January. Early on the morning of 23 January
Westeriingie APRA foroes captured the town of Tjimahi 11 miles west of Bandung,
the capital of the Pesundan State. After fighting en route, about 600 APRA
forces, supplemented by at least 300 deserters from the Netherlands Indies
Army (EIL) moved into Bandung. killed 70 of the defending TNT troops and
withdrew some hours later after negotiations with the Dutch local comnand
The 'lotion at Bandung has been the largest display of APRA force to data.
Elsewhere in the are, military action by APRA has been confined to gangs of
lees than 100 men. On 25 January APRA forces seized the rail junction town
of Padalarang (10 mtlos meat of Bandung) and disrupted rail service between
Djakarta and Bandung for several hours. Fighting was also reported around
Tjandjur (30 miles at of Bandung). On 26-27 January small scale fighting
broke out in one of the suburbs of Djakarta; 17 APRA men n the area surrendered.
Although fiesterling'a followers have been quiescent since 27 January the main
body of APRA forces is believed to be in the Bandung vicinity. Many of the
EMIL troops who deserted just prior to Vesta ling's invasion of Bandung have
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surrendered to their Dutch ?Demanders and they are !sing held for ootrt nartial
ita trength The actual strength of Visterlines private army is presently
tentati y estimated at 5,000. Moat of thetw troops are Lelieved to be KEIL
men, the k of which are hard-fighting Indonesian Christians from the island
of Ambon. The Netherlands Foreign Office estimates that probably less then
er
fifty Netherlands have Joined Westerling. Neatening's potential strength
is very muoh greater than the 3,000 now creditel to him. The EMIL
new has a strength of 30,000 enlisted personnel As long as VIL and Iql
relations oontinue to be strained, Western r has potential recruits in the
unabsorbed KEIL and other dissident factions. Neatening's troops are said to
be well disciplined and well equipped with arms end motor vehicles including
tanks.
Politicel Following - Neatening has the political support of many divergent
groups which have been dissatisfied with Indonesian Republican rule. Aside
from the rebellious: EMIL elements which constitute the major portion of APRA
force* Neatening is believed to have the sympathy of members of two EMIL
especial battalions of conmandoe and paratroops. According to USI government
officials these men are trained Jungle fighters and have been indoctrinated to
hate the 711I ? Certain Deitch army and civil officials of the former Netherlands
Indies government at Batavie (now Djakarta) are believed to have given moral
and material support to Westerling. Neatening is believezi to have nose connections
with Dutch military intelligence as well. Early in January 1950 an ?Metal
Dutch investigation cleared Neatening of any complicity with dissident Indonesian
grctnm, including disaffected KEIL elements. For decades the Sundanese people
of Nest Java have fought to preserve their separate language end customs from
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Asubm&44Lon.and extinguishment by the more numerous Avenel*, of Uiddle and
Nast JAVU and it is probably in this connection that Neatening has the support
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of several political leaders in the Pasunden State who are resisting the move,
Instigated by former Republioan leaders, for a unitarian Indonesian stats.' The
Head of the Pasunden State and his Premier.
e amonr, thnse who favored a
separate state in West Java and who have colleborated with "sterling for
purpose. Ro direct link has been proven to exist between fteterling and the
militant Moslem Darul /slam movement, but such a connection would gi-e him
suffioient strength to present a real challenge to the BSI fowling",
cause offers an attractive oatoh-alle* those who regard the HSI with disfavor*
farmers in Wer, Java have resented dematds mede upon them by the MI; some
TNT troops have deserted to Westerling; and many superstitious peasants regard
Westerling as the leader of a mystic religious movement.
Westerlipes neiltionship to Dutch.- USI officials claim to have evidence that
Dutoh ?Motels in Indonesia., both military and civil, have utilise(i "sterling
in a plot against the Sovereignty of the USI. A fromer officer of the
Netherlands InfOrmation Service recently arrested by the lI, is alleged to
have testified that Noete, the director of the cabinet of the former High
Representative of the Crown, is involved in the political aspects of the plot.
Economic planning is: alleged to have been headed by van Hongstraaten, the
Director of Economic Affairs in the Batavia Government, andlunder his direction
finanoing of "sterling is supc sed to have taken place with government fends.
The testimony further alleges that military plotting originated 4th Sultan
HaMid of Borneo; Santos?, the Secretary of State for Internal Affairs; and
other prominent Indonesians formerly working for the Dutch. The URI further
ohaetes that the Westerling organisation mai created originally by Lt. Gen
Simon Spoor, who oommanded Netherlands forces in Indonesia until his death
in mid-4949. While they do not question the good faith of higher Dutch officers,
USI officials contend that "sterling hoe received material and moral
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theneelvee to the new order and are determined to make trouble. Indonesian
officials criticise- higher officers for their inability to eontr 1 mutinous
elements of the N1L. The available intelligence indiestee that many inor
Dutch utvil and military offioiale have supporto3 .sterling, but there is little
available evidence to implicate higher Dutch officials now in authroity in
Indonesia. The New Nish Commissioner in Indonesia has publicly condemned
%sterling and denied that he had any oemnootions with the Netherlands Government.
The USI* working with Dutch officials, has
the military strength to deal wt APPA armed forces and Indonesian officials-
onsider %sterling's death or arrest to be inevitable. putch-Indonesian 000pera-
tion on
many of the points of dissension will ease many of the problem* wtder-
lying Neaterlin rffair. TH:-.! Indonesian Government, having overcome previous
teehnical difficulties has issued regulations under which the KNIL will be
incorporated in the TNI, The Dutch have offered to accede to any specifie request
by the Indonesians for action against Neatening* but the Indonesian Government
has been exceedingly reluctant to call for the help of Dutch troops. The
Dutch also plan to aelerate repatriation of Dutch troops now in Indonesia
4 to effect a more rapid turnover of arms to the 771. According to a recent
the Netherlands Army command has taken the necessary steps to prevent
recurrence of desertions and strong cation will be taken against further
attempts. Furthermore, the Netherlands Government has promised to deal harshly
with any Dutch subject aidine end abetting dtsett In Indonesia.
Conclusion - The ma will probably sueoeed in extending its control to liwt.mtbed
areas of Vest Java. The Pasundan State has been placed temporarily under direct
administration of the USI Government and a Government Commissioner has been
appointed. The Paaundan Cabinet has resigned, the Feed of the State has
surrendered his mandate and the Premier 39 being detained for his complicity
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in th. g affair. As a result many of the elements ',blob sy'ethied
are betn neutre.1ied, and it new appears that Thothrisnds-
I?douesisnperat1On at the highest level may lead to the elimination
Vesterling And the threat imposed by his private Army. Incidents similar to
the esterling affair and threats to law and order Involving Communist and
other dissident groups, however, will continue to test the stability at the
United States of Indonesia
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1 February 1950
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Economic Information on Bulgaria
1. This office has a requirement for the following
information:
a. Movement of contraband goods in and out
of Bulgaria now in progress.
(1) Rinds of goods by sources and destina-
tions (with particular attention to movements
of goods from and to the United States) and
routes traversed, especially through points in
Greece and Turkey.
(2) Organizations active - entrepreneurs,
leaders and financiers,and mechanisms used.
b. Legal
in and out of
countries and
Austria, with
movement of goods (exports - imports)
Bulgaria, especially with neighboring
with non-Soviet zones of Germany and
Switzerland and with Trieste.
c. Commodities in short supply and in great
demand in Bulgaria, especially items with great
value relative to weight and bulk (e.g. drugs (peni-
cillian, aureomycin, etc.), diamonds, etc.)
d. Nature of current demand within Bulgaria
for hard currencies, e.g., U.S. dollars and Swiss
Francs, and nature of current traffic, if any, in
such currencies.
2. It will be appreciated if you will advise this
office as soon as possible when and if this material can
be available,
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rice & Foreign Trade Section, VIE
ian Foreign Trade and Financial Transactions in 1949.
1. In answer to your request of 1 February 1950 our records
show the following:
a. Clandestine traffic with the West -- negligible.
(1) Merchandise Movemento. Scattered reports have been
received from various sources of attempts by Bulgaria to
acquire strategic and essential equipment during the past
few years. Very few of these, however, have ever been
substantiated. Trpical examples, covering the more
important deals, are listed below (1,
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(a) ITALT--jeeps? trucks, and motor vehiele equip-
ment. Tho Bulgarian operated firm of SOCI tirMilan
has been procuring this type of equipment through
Italy and Switzerland. Shipments are probablp from
U.S. military surplus stooks. no
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(b) ITALI--tin. A Shipment of tin plate as
imported into Italy from the U.S. and mexpoded to
Bulgaria under Italian export license. Ostensibly, it
was to be used. for making tin cans for food canning.
(c) GEMERAL?ball bearings. Quantities of ball
bearings scheduled under various trade pacts with
Western European countries, particularly Italy, appear
to be slightly exceesive. These could supplement the
imports of other Communist countries, all of which are
obtaining ball bearings from Western European countries
under trade pacts.
(d) SWITZERLAND--jeeps, rifles, motorcycles, machine
guns, and similar equipment. A.O.E. Leuprecht-Rapp,
Geneva, has recently been reported as involved in a
deal to secure these materials.
(e) AUSTRIA--cigarettes. Large quantities of
cigarettes have been shipped to USIA for disposal
through black market channels.
There is no information regarding clandestine shipments via
Turkey or Greece.
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Forei&nTrade aad Financial Tr.aact4ona in 1949
(2) Ors satione involved. Aside from two organisations
in Milan, Italy -- SOU, and Itelgiano? -- there are no
foreign Bulgariae trading firm.. Bulgeria's demands de not
warrant the maintenance of independent trading firm* and in
deals its ehich the country is involved are probably handled
by Ouch and Polish commercial org..nition.1 or diplomatic:
personnel and facilities.
Officials of SOC1 and Italgrano which have inter
king directorships are: Kalnedjiev, Klisser, vorah,
lake Alseck, Reeffele PlIosov, Aswan Kaneff (mar have
defected, wee member of secret police) and Emile Maseolent.
Transshipments through Italy are handled in two separate ,
atop., goods are imported into the country, and then
re-exported as a separate and distinct transaction. This
L s probably not dons where goods move through free ports
in these cases export limes. aro not required.
b. Legal trade -- 00-90 percent with the Soviet bloc.
(1) oiJor Ar. Bulgaria** foreign trade in almost
aU with-th4-SO*iet-bloc. This tree accounts for 80-90
percent of all exports and import., 50 to 60 percent being
with the USSR and the balance with the other Commmnist
eauntriee. The chief export item is'tobecco of 'shish 4140-
14044144 goes- to the USSR (and has been retold for dollars
to the U.S.). Other materiels shipped to the Soviet Union
are load and tine concentrates, capper, tin and cement.
Principal oommodities received frmm the Soviets are; PM,
eottan, iroa and steel products, machine tools, iion..Zerrotia
metal*, tractors, motor vehicle*, and fertilisers. Bulgaria's
principal satellite trading partner is Csechoslovakia nhich
supplies; mainly industrial equip:gents math as machinery and
power *hovels, transport equipment, iron and steel products
Chemicals, and textiles in exchanse for foodstuffs, akins
and hides' nose-ferrous ores, and pyrites. Bulgerian trade
with the other Oominform somata*a is varied and does not
eccount for more than 10% of Us total.
(2) Unirtat, except Rtni
MO trade is carried on with either Tagoslavia or Greece,
The exchange of geode with Turkey is email, * total of
approximatelr $200,000 for the first 6 months of 1949, &
Mari) drop tram the $2.2 million total trade in 1942. 007
known item traded is charcoal which aecounts for half of
Bulgaria's export* to Turk in 1948. A largo seals trade
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Foreign Tra
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inancial Tr
cations in 1949
was repoitad as signed with Rumania in May 1949
featuring the export of petroleum, lumber, steel drums, corn,
meat, potatoes in exchange for area, scrap iron,
phur, and miscellaneous products. Ails the amounts
of the items listed appear unlikely, especially
sulphur exports from Bulgeria? this list indicator: the
probable composition of Eulgerian4tumanien trade.
-(3) ;radii with the West.-- About 75% with Austria, 1t53)',the U.K.', Switzerland, and lest Germany.
Bulgarian trade with the West is practicAlly all with the
countries. Exchanges with this area totaled 115,673,000
for the first 6 months of 2.949 consisting of 10,361,000 of
exports and $7,312,000 of imports. A breakdown of these
figures follows:
thousands of dollars for first six months of 1949)
94321W, kilne4 Poaorta
0,505 1,112
176 1,381
1,470 1,959
1,047 1,000
1,639 576
1,726 1,4
0 561 7,312
Details as to the composition of this trade are not readily
availAble. In general, it is similar to that for 1948 when
&tigerish exported mainly foodstuffs, such as hides and skins
fruits and vegetables, meats and poultry, and tobacco to
the MEC countries in exchange for industrial manufactures,
themicals end pharmaceuticals, transport equipment, textiles,
and foodstuffs. In 1948 chief sources for the more important
imports from the ImAsst were:
Joel equipment Sweden, FrILSOS, Italy, ilermany(West)
ry Switzerland, Belgium, France
ls West Germany
Vehicles France, Italy, 'mist Germany
!Whine Tools Italy
Cotton Egypt
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bell bearings
auto chassis (17 items)
milling maehins (bed type)
copper wire (5.4 metric tons)
*pedal eleetrical steel (15 tons
honing machines
glycerine (900 kg.)
Total
$169,101
105,1003
9,544
4,999
6,28,
17,365
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Italy h.a a3b sontrct*dtos equipment forahydro-
electric power plant valued at $685,000.
(b) MITEERLAND. Bulgarian-Swiss trade has been
rising steadily &nee 1947. 'the first 9 months of 1949
practically balanced, imports fnms Bulgaria being
6,1371000 Swiss francs and imports 61495,000 Swiss francs.
Chief imports were general maahinary and printing ink,
an4 principal imports eggs, tobacco, and corn. other
impotent imports were watches and other precision instru
mints, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. Switzerland is
committed to deliver considerable quantities of capital
equipment under a long-term agreement, which includes
such items as transformiere? electric locomotives* and
material for hydro-electric power plants. These deliveries
may be jeopardized if Bulgaria continues to fail short of
scheduled foodstuff deliveries.
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( WEST ommaf. Tho 0.6 million total agreement
filind in 1949 betWeen Bulgaria and West Germany is far
more important than its value indicates because Bulgaria's
prewar industrial equipment was largely and is pressntly
in great need of spar's. Featured imports are machinery
spares $400,000; trucks :Ind scares, $500,000; and mine
cars (built to order for Bulgaria during the war), $150,000.
Bulgaria is to ship non-staple foodstuffs and miscellaneous
columnar and use items in return.
(11) AUSTRIA, The 1949 Bulgarian-Austrian agreement
is aimilar in composition to that with 4est Germany. Total
trade is scheduled at $15.2 million. Imports are primarily
industrial equipment -such as motor vehicles, machinery, steal
products, railway equipment, and precision-electrotechnical
material. Exports are tobacco, wheat, and other agricultural
products. Confirmed specific imports (in railway freight
carload lots) are: steel and steel rods, 13; iron pipe, 27;
anchor screws, 2; glasswara and glass tubing, 22; sulphuric
acid, 3; lathes,. 2 freight- car compressors, 1.
(e) USITED STATES. Bulgaria's trade with the
tate* has never been and is not now significan For
t 11 months of 1949 chief imports, in thousands of
dollars, mere nom-fat dry milk (possibly for relief purposes)
$1,172; raw cotton, $797; and office machinery, 09. Shi
manta to the U.S. consisted mostly of tobacoo?,$1,408;-
vegetable oils and fats, $349.
(f) TRIESTE. Shipments negligible. For period
June through NoveMber 1949 imports received via Trieste
were 219.5 tons and exports 5.7 tons.
c. Items in short supply practically everything except
oods.
Bulgaria is primarily an agricultural and industrially
backward country in the throes of a series of Communist
dominated industrialisation plans. Therefore, there is
little that is in adsquata supply. The only light weight,
ash yam' items known to be critically short are quinine
and &taring/.
d. Bulgarian monetary actions closely tied to USSR.
(1) Gold mitrtet zetlAtke bla kmarksting Soviet gold.
Bulgaria is active in the world gold market, specifically
in Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Franca.
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Advantage has been taken of the spread between official
amd black market exchange rates to acquire hard currencies,
particularly U.S. dollars.
Bulgaria bec&s di satisfied with wie. reel one for
gold movements early in 1949 and have begun to itaft business to
Amsterdam. Bulgarian gold movements have also Vien reported
through Brussels, Tangiers, Greece, and in South-America.
All shipments of Bulgarian gold are denied officially.
(2) Bale o; Pfymente PosXtion -- predominately deficit.
Bulgaria has a deficit in it. balance of payments position
with all the OEEC countries, 0=1400, West Germany, Italy, and
Norway. Bulgarian dollar accounts in the U.S. tend to
gradually decline and be periodically replenished by transfers
from the USSR.
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SUBACTI USSR Snorts of Gold, psci*Th in Connection with
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mEMORANDUM FOR: D/Yub, ORE
ATTENTION ?
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SUBJECT USSR Exports of Gold, Especially in
Connection witn Acquisitions of US
Dollars.
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1. It is requested that of tnis
branch be placed in contact with someone in your
organization familiar with gold movements for
discussion with a view to determining tne availability
of information along the following lines.
a. The extent to which the USSR is exporting
gold and directly or indirectly thereby securing
dollar funds which are thus made available for
financing USSR (or Communist Party) sponsored
clandestine operations abroad and for financing
operations of groups allied to the USSR or
operating in its interests such as the Chinese
Communists.
? b. The personnel, organizations, and methods
used in the procurement of dollar funds for USSR
or USSR controlled accounts which procurement
involves at some stage the export of gold from
the USSR.
2. It is further requested that should such
information be available, it be forwarded to this office
as soon as possible; or, should it be impossible to
fulfill the requirement that a written statement to that
effect be furnished.
3. This matter is currently of considerable
importance to OPO and it would be appreciated if the
meeting could be set u. w thin the next 24 hours.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: D/Pub, OF.
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SUBJECT : Prof. Noack and the Nauheim Circle.
1. Reouest this office be provided a brief background
sketch and current estimLte on the Nauheim Circle, a Western
German group which advocates political neutrality in the
current East-West conflict. Prof. Noack, head of the group, is
reportedly planning a speaking tour in the German Democratic
Eastern ReDublic.
2. Our need for this information is great. That which
is available should be furniched this office on or before 13
February 1950,
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Chief, Wostern Swope Division, ORE
1P4, The wauheim Circle .
10 February 1950
erewith th. information requested on Professor back
JI Circle- ea requested for project- /P-65,. dated
Par?ary 1950.
In connection with this project sone biographic
information has 13.rea4 been intmema14 submitted to the
project originator. This information has not been duplicated
in this report
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