WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY NO. 12

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A005000010012-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2013
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 1, 1978
• Content Type: REPORT

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concluded after ____~___ _,,.,,,,;,,,,,,,, u.. ~: ra uy,
pro ractod negotaat.)on, Venezuela s irst intonrational air
transport agreement authorizing r~outc:s for a Venezuelan airline, The agree-
ment is in accord With the stands.rd rec3.procal type air agreement which tho
IIS has concluded vrith thirty-aiF: other aouritries including, amonf; hat;in
F.meriaen nations, Argentina, Br`;.zil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Pore?and
IIruguay, - ,
2,~ A Czechoslovak-BTonrsgian civil air agreement, providing for ser=
wicea between Praha and Oalo fvie Gopenhage:, and Goteborg), :vas signe3 7
April, In addition to exiati?.g agreesents vl,.th th? USSR and t'ha other
Satellites, Caechoslovakia sec previously concluded formal nir'ugresments
with th? US, U1{,?Netherlands, Ire7.and, Seredon, De:?:mark and Turkey, Moreover,
the Czechoslovak airline (GSA) has~beeri grantad p?~oavisional operating rights
into Belgium, France,, Scritzerl'and; Greece,. Italy, licypt, Iraq, and Lebanon,
.. 3, Tho recent broakdcrm of US-;,'.ungarian air ne;;otiations (which wore `
undertaken by tho, US on the ;~oun~thaii a satisfactory ~viP agreomentmight
contribute to the European Ru.:overy Program 'by opening Ecat-iYeat trade
channels) has evident7.y imprr;esed upon scma A'estern Europa~~a nations the im-
~portance of coordinating their air pohiries vie-a-vie the S~~tellits States,
Sir George bribbott, Deputy Secretary oC the British E?inistr~= of Civil? AviaP
tion, has already urgad the: the US and iFestern Arropean-coui:i:ries adopt a
common aviation polic;/ tow,.rd the Iron Giirtain ocuntries: iFi;'iout such a
coordinated policy', Cribbf,tt fears that Lhe Belgians and Dutch might weaken
,the airspace control oC Aer.tern 1?lrrope by granting entry ri.lhts to Satel.lito
air carriers without securing com:rtensurace operating righis into.Easter~n
Europe. The French also have evidenced concern, regarding penet.ation by
Satellite airlinos of YF'rsterh h}rrope, by their continued rei'hsal to permit
the Rcunanian national rirline (TARS) to satablisfi regular, suhed,al.ed flights ~
into Paris. (The French still subscritu?to the foimer US pbli,ey? tovrard the
Satellite States and, thus, do not conu.ider an air agreement pith Rumania ,'
aufficient'compensati:m 'far the operatlon of g Soviet-controlli:d airline
(TABS) into France,) The Italians, meanwhile, are'frankly.see;:ing guidance
from the US conoernir,; imminent negoti:etions with Yugoslavia air.; other Balkan
States, The for~hcor.ing Geneva Assemi-~iy of TCAO (International Civil'Avia_-
~tion Organization) T/ill offer the delei etas of the YPestern. Povre:~s' an oppor-
tunity for informal, "off-th?-record" ~iiscussiona concerning a coT,.~uon civil
aviation policy toanrd the nations vrithin the Saviet orbit,
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A Draft Convention on "International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft"
The Second Assembly of the International_Cisil Aviation Organization
(ICAO), convening at Geneve. 1 June, Trill consi'dez for approval 'and sip,~iaturo
a draft eonvention.cn "International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft."
The US Delegstion considers this the roost significant policy issue likely to
ari.;e during the Assembly meetings..
The US, as the world's leading producer and exporter of si+-craft, vrould,
benefit materially by the adoption of such a convention. By codifying.di-
verso and conflicting national laws into an internstilonal sgrserient, the cone
vention could provide, for the first Limo, international Legal recognition of.
valid financial and property interests in aircraft and aviation'aquipmsnt. .
The draft convention presumes to provide rsasoz?sble legal security for
creditors advancing the large amounts o? capital required to purehea~e fleets
of aircraft. Adoption of th~.Convention, ite sponsora.boliovs; creuld result
in new sources of, private credit becoming ~.va:4lrablo to prospective aircraft
purchAsers. _ ~ .
The proposed draft eras prepared by the Legal Committee of YC.AO at
Brussels in September 1947. It renresonts a substantial compromise between
the wideiy divergent views of the IInitsd States and those of many other
countries to vhrom certain Amarigan legal.aoncepts and corporate financial
procedures were either unf'tuniliar or totally uukxrovrn._ .Blrrther considera.-
tion of the draft convention, however; as ~ihe result of an ICAO circular
letter of October 1947 requesting com.^ients thereon, has elicited' a number of
proposed amendments both as to the subs+.ance and wording of the IInrssels
draft. Zt is cow feored that the general agreement achieved"at Brussels may
have been premature.
The IIS Delegation to the Geneva meeting has been instructed to oppose an
anticipated move by several countries to defer action on the draft by raturn?P
ing it to the Cormnittiee for further studj!. Prolongod'debats may be expected
and it is possible that the Assembly vr113. not have sufficient time td agree
upon a text for sigtYature,
(This is the third of a series of articles'Considering the principal
questions which are expected to arise.s'c this meeting. See also Trerreporta-
tion Group Pieeklies of 3 and 10 pisy.)
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