ARGENTINE-PERUVIAN PETROLEUM NEGOTIATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300070004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 3, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. T!M 0&i% gowrnmsnt Is bsooning convinced that Argentina dose not possess
sufficient t.omaiosl 1ao%.how, trained personnel, oquipoeant or dollars to
soquirr the equipment, to dsvelap t1 oil resourcos of Peru. In spits of
this eouviotion, the Peruvian govo-rrmsnt Is ottemptine to Maintain Me, illusion
of Argentine priority in esah setters by asking for Argentine propoerals on the
Dro t. It is believed that no sstiefhetory concrete Amine plan asn be
fbrthoOMniag.
2. Saving thus satisfied Argentine pride, Peru will turn to the gaited Mates
Interests to carry out the work, oonvinoed that to the last analysis only
tbited States interests have, the teobmieal requisites to do the job.
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