DEAR MR. SULLIVAN:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70T00666R000200050027-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: August 5, 1966
• Content Type: LETTER

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SEMIrT August 5, 1966
fir. Charles A. Sullivan
Assistant to the Secretary
for National Security Affair&
Department of the Treasury
Washington, D. C. 20220
Dear Mr. Sulliva.nt
As requested in your letter of July 12, this Department has reviewed
again the license application for shipment of certain 300 channel
comii .unications equipment to Ruugary. Our request that Treasury issue
the liccnoo for this case takes into account not only the statement
in a technical report to which you refer but also the advice of senior
officials. in the Defense Dep+ rtment and the Central Intelligence Agency.
With this additional information and t4,,in into consideration the
reasons set forth in EDAC 1i-173 of May 2, I can confirm that it is this
Departmentts view that a licence should be issued for foreign policy
reacone. From the technical standpoint, the equipment in question dcea
not differ significantly from similar equipment which has been licensed
for Romania and Bulgaria, and the same foreign policy interests are
present. In the case of Romanic, Secretary Rusk rcco; nded approval
of a case involving similar equipment from Belgium to Romania. Uis
rerss~rsrrs in that case were set forth in a letter of January 21, 1965 to
the Secretary of Defense (dietributcd under cover of .AC D-166/4).
Because of the similarity of the considerations involved in thrt case
and the present case - considerations which have been strengthened in
the intervening wontha by the President's continued emphasis on encour g-
ing trade and other constructive contacts with Eastern Europe I wound
hope that you might find it possible to approve the license application
for shipment of 300 channel communications equipment to Hungary on the
basis of this letter.
State Dept. review completed
sincerely.
Joseph A. Greenwald
Deputy A.satistant Secretary
for International Trade Policy
and Economic Defense
GROUP 3
Downgraded at 12 year intervals;
not automatically declassified.
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