WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY NO. 7

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A005000010008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 1, 1978
• Content Type: REPORT

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Foreign Minister Tealdaris has informed IIS ESnbasey Athens that if the
Greek Government were immediately to stop Czechoslovak air traffic through
Greece. large barter transactions with Czechoslovakia, involving substantial
credit balanaea in Greece's favor, might ba disrupted. Tealdaris propo.sea,
however, to restrict suah flights to tyro monthly, and believes that all
Czechoslovak air operations through Greece can be stopped later. The US had
instructed Dnbsasy Athens to urge the Greek Government to stogy all Czecho-
slovak air operations through Athens. The Greek inclination to do this as
soon as practical will be reinforced by a raaent Czechoslovak prose announoo-
meat in Prague that the Czechoslovak Airlines (CSA) would effect the evacun-
tion of 2,000 Greek ahildrsn by air to Czechoslovakia. The announcement
apparently referred to children kidnapped by the Greek Guerrillas, Whose
evacuation by air mould eatually be impractiael.
SL'CICCI
` DDA Memo, ~ Apr 77
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UK &eturning Lend-Loase Vessols
The BS has denied the Dritiah request for oxtensioa of the Lend-Leathax?a
Agreement, which urea concluded after the expiration of tho US-UK Lend-Lasso
Agreement. The agreement was negotiated in December 1945 by Admiral Land,
wartime WSA Administrata~? and Lord Leatkere, Hritish Minister of War Trarxs-
port.
The Land-Leathers Agreement originally covored about 350 -vessels of
various types which had boon chartered to the UK under Lend-Loace. the terns
of the ngreement provided for gradual return of the vessels, and at the time
of the British request. only 39 remained in British hands.
The IIS Lend-Lease vessels (principally noel-burning British-type Liberty
ships) were used effectively to tide the IIK over tho ?~rediate post~rar period,
until the British construction program could begin to offset ti~ar losses.
VYhile it is too soon to appreciate hilly the effect on the UR of the loss of
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these vessels, it will obviously cause a lose of shipping revenue and
foreign ezchsage. It will also leave the British no alternative to-the
continuation of the present. ell-out shipbuilding program, which is using
materials, partioularly steel, that could otherwise bo allocated elsewhere.
On the other hand, the strong desire of the DK to retain these Lend-Lease
vessels has been somewhat dampened by the provision of the European Recovery
Program Act that at least fifty percent of all ERP goods procured in the IIS
be carried in IIS flag vessels.
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