SHIPMENT OF CZECH ARMS TO PAKISTAN AND ETHIOPIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500060007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGEiHCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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Approved For Release 1999/09/09 CIA-RDP82-00457800250000
CD NO.
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia/Poland/Den rk`Palsistan,/Ethiopia DATE DISTR. 8 T ireth 1949
SUBJECT Shipment of Czech Arms to Pakistan and Ethiopia
25X1A6a
PLACE
ACQUIRE
RETAIN OR DfSI'RlY
NO. OF PAGES I
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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1. The Danish ship A n fjell (sic), owned by Christensen-Skibcbefragtaing,
Copenhagen, Ainaliegade 33, is carrying a shipment of arris which it took
aboard at Gdynia, Poland.* The arms are from Zbrojovka Brno (plant at
Sao, Czechoslovakia) and are consigned to the Ethiopian and the Pakistan.
governriants. The consignment for Ethiopia consists of 15,000 rifles, 500
machine guns, and 3,750,000 rounds of axi uniticn. The Pakistan consign-
ment consists of 53,000 rifles and 21,000,000 rounds of ntnunition.
2 a The ship has eztgino trouble and is probably nov in Copenhagen, where the
amiunition is to be transferred to another ship.
3. ? Ethiopia and Pakistan may be intermediaries for other governments.
25X1 A6a Cam. is i .oydsV Register of C ric l Shippi does not list
a ship by this name. Presumab2,y the Norwegian ship Ornef jell is meant?
ihis doc ent iS hereby regraded to
C0N'- iAL in accordonco With the
'eater of October i?/3 Horn the
director of entrai Inteiligen'ue to to
Archivist of e United States.
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