POLITICAL SITUATION/PROPOSED OIL REFINERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R001700730002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. expressed great anxiety in his letter over the effect German
rearmamen might have on the attitude the USSR could take toward Finland.
He thinks that the USSR might make this an excuse for inimical action.
2. He feels that the present submissive attitude of Kekkonen and of the
President, Paasikivi, is the result not only of ear o the USSR but also
of the 4&SR's promises that they will be well taken care of no matter
what happens.
3. Kekkonen is so completely subservient to the wishes of the USSR that there
is a growing feeling of contempt for him in Finland. Of this he is fearful.
Tuomioja has been sent to London to get him out of the way because
e oven fears his influence in the coming election,
4. pointed out in his letter that the present plans of the Finnish
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Government to build a small oil refinery of a capacity of 10 thousand to
15 thousand barrels a day, will not only endanger the interests of US oil
companies in Finland, but will increase USSR influence because USSR crude
is planned as the basic supply for the refinery, Further, that the
refinery as planned which will be supplied by West German firms on long
terms of credit, is too small for economical operation and will be a
definite drain on the Finnish taxpayer.
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