THE SOMALI YOUTH LEAGUE RELATIONS WITH SINCLAIR OIL COMPANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000630001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 1, 1947
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFO. September 197
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The Somali Youth Leagues Relations With
wt [. Sinclair coil Company
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1, It is reported that on 16 September 1947, a letter was written to the
Sinclair oil Company, demanding the real nationality of the representatives
of the Company; the main objectives of the Company; and from wbcmperm-.saion
to work had been obtained., This letter was signed by Hajj Pihammad Hussein
amp by Suldan Rafl.e, "For All Somalis?"
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: r itish officers in DiredewaA
e= o, tsvo Itai u agents for political work among the Somali tribesmen,,
Higher officials of the Company discovered this fact and ordered them
discharged during the first week in October.,
Roper MacDonald, a member of the geological party,, was repor..ed to have
hei n discharged because he had disclosed important teohriical i
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` r.. E 2 Sep ,,ember 1947, the Sinclair Oil Company received a letter giving
i., notice to tor exploring for oil, since the future of Somalia was in
1ispute0 The letter stated that the matter would be brought before the
?,i and that unless the notice were complied with, "necessary measures would
'be adonted without further notice.,"
It iS reported that Marquis L. U, Serra of the Sinclair Oil Company had
~v In an interview with an official of the oil company.. the British Mini; ter
is reported to have asked the following:
a. That the Sinclair Company furnish .him with a copy of F.ts
~-~ntract with the gthiopian Government;
b. That ?a rcciis Vii, CL. Serra be discharged or withdrawn as
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consult-n geologist, on the grounds that he was working
for the Italian AGIP and was an Italian rather than a
Belgian citizen (as Serra had represented himself to be);
That two political agents in the personal employ of Serra
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6,. On 26 September l947,, Lt-, Col.; R~E- Thorne, Deputy Commandant
of the Somalia Gendarmeries is reported to have dispatched to
the Sinclair Oil Company a letter demanding that it:
a; Discharge its British Somaliland interpreters
and employ others selected by the Gendarmerie;
bo Gat rid of the British Somali Issak boys, and
offering to replace them through the Labor Office
at Mogadishu if they could not be replaced locally;
v~ Discharge the geological sectionas liaison agent,
ids document contains information
affe a national defense of the
United Sta him the merning of
the Espionage c 9 U.S.C. 31 and
32 .a.; amended. Its- tra pion or
the rev`-elation of its conten ^ny
manner to an unauthorized person
prohibited by law.
S r mCoNTRGL U ,S-:-, OFFICIALS ONLY
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