BACKGROUND: US INTERESTS IN SUMATRA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000800030004-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 2, 1957
• Content Type: BRIEF

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The US has provided the principal'aarket
latter in adjacent small islands;:
of rubber and tin,, the former poducedp,~
American investments (some $1$0 million), coo4~tatrated
umatra, tota ..'some 10% of .total foreign tweets ent in.
a year)--50% of Indonesia's crude oil. Two American rubber
companies, Goodyear and US Rubber, operate estates in' North
Central and 8 th Sumatra and
$v , produce some million tons
Two American oil companies, Stanvac and.Caltez, cpvrate
Sumatra. These and other American-rubber interests In the
area produce some 111 of Indonesia's rubber (about 5% of the
world's supply).
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