EXIMBANK CHIEF EYES FOREIGN POLICY LINK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300440021-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: April 9, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK TIMES APR 9 1961.
Sanitized - AlppbWA For Relea C16WRD
ank Chie
iti was
m and re erring to h
president, . .I rather ,m
t' olio links of
his,A
xet;~r of I e or conomic
Affairs in the final years of the
roman AimstratI ' and in
An~
he
iStreeter, a map or wide ranging
interests, and a Democrat by
long-time voting habit-but, rela-
tiypjv brief affillation,
vgbtg_thin gs have happened
riyea
I, It is still there,
?2, It has embarked on ,a greatly
panded program of exportl
promotion.,
The first point was touch and
go at the outset of the new Ad- I
#inistration ,merger of for-
e%n aid agencies was in_ the,
works, and one proposed ver,sion would have drastically cur-
tailed the barA's
gperations.
The qre not be-i
ink Gltr is, perhaps more a~
resift p,
te`ed tl banks lQia,g-nur-
ggo it1on,of fav_mf, gn Capi- .
HiII than of spy ar ument;
that its 'officials, offfexed. Suf-
i fice it to say, the bank has sur-
b 7df full equa t Best;
competitor q in other countrfes.":
ThQ l ank,;ik preparing'details of
a plan to guarantee exporters.
against all the . risks--political.
as well as commer' cial-involved
in short-term sales financing,
n .t'ol1cy d1
Chase Ltd.
Harold F. Linder, new president of Export-Import Bank, as he witnessed recent signing
of a $15,000,000 loan agreement with Chile by Walter Muller, the Chilean Ambassador.
which is the typical financing I. Career in Finance 1
for consumer goods. The idea I Mr. Linder's private career
entails insurance by private in-. has been in finance, but thatt
surance 'companies, with the: has been only part of his work.)
Eximbank putting guarantees In the Nineteen Thirties, when
behind that insurance. Mr. Linder was In his thirties,
he was a partner in Carl M.!
Mr. Linder does not concede Loeb, Rhoades & Co., the Newt
that United States industry has York irl estment house,"Before,'
been operating under a tremeri- during and after World War II,I
dous export disadvantage. He, hq was in public service-first'
Idoes believe, however, that working voluntarily with Ger-.
man and Austrian refugees, then
manufacturers and financiers advising the Secretary of War.
here do not know what facilities on defense plant facilities, next:
are available to, them for serving four years as a naval:
strengthening their export post- officer, and finally acting as a,
postwar volunteer in reconstruc-.
tions. tion and resettlement work.
Would Spread Information In 1948, he became president
"I want to spread this knows- of the General American in
,
edge all over the couhtry," Mr. six yestors weeks investment ago Company compa a ny, resigned and closed-end its,
,
Linder said. He also is trying to (
vice chairman, se wat
spread the facilities themselves RPM,
through the use of the commer- Iyears, lie al cial banking system as an agent -ate and the:
I. A. and has acquired a
for theximbank in the field. I corporation director-
The new business of the bank (ships `that had to be severed
represents an increase in its in- when he moved to the Export-I
volvement in short-term export Import Bank.
financing, but-iii Mr. Linder's Mr. Linder retains just two!
words-lendip ~f~o~r longer-range non-Government posts, as a
1~ trustee of the Institute for Ad-1
pro jests still'rts major pur- vanced Study at Princeton, N. J.,
poke." _ and as a director of the Institute
Right now, he is in Rio de of Internatio Education in
nOT
Janeiro for the meeting of the New York.
Inter - American Development. He is married; leas two daugh-
k,_ which starts on Monday.' ters; keeps dn, apartment on
> A in New York and
nu
k
ve
e
a senior adviser on the Par
wen y man United States dole- a country "'p"iace upstate, and
drives a Bentley.
in.gton, Mr. Linder
?p from an office that has
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