SOVIET PRESSURE EXERTED ON AFGHANISTAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500800307-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 307
• Publication Date: March 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Re? a 2005/08/17: CIA-RDP80-00809A000500800307-0
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY . i,fghanistan/USSR
SUBJECT 5ovtst Pressure Fxerted on ^,fghanistan
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1. Moscow has earnestly requested the Afghan Government to demand from London a
revisiort of the Afghan-British treaty of 1921, in order to have a free hand if
England and the US eventually unite in a Middle East defeii'se treaty. The 1921
treaty i s c-ie th'i t ., t'ghanistan would quite willingly abrogate by itself , in
order to negotiate on border questions with Pakistan, as the successor state to
British India withcut bi.ing subject to British veto.
2. The USSR has infonaed the Afghan Government that in case of the signature of a
treaty betw_~en the U.S and Pakistan it is possible that the Soviet Air-Force
will demand the Afghan airfields.
3. The Afghan Government has also been asked to eject the American technicians
and oil pro,;nectors working in the area of Shirbaghan on the Amur Daria River.
4. As a reward for rneet_.ng these requests Kabul has been assured that India and the
USSR will support 1.. hnnistan against the US and Pakistan.
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