SR BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200030035-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 35
• Content Type: REPORT

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Sh Belgium and uxembourg
x very quick glance at this---there was no use trying to go into details---
indicates to me that (a) it has never had finaal editorial attention (A minor
detail in this case); (b) the summary ought to be rearranged/ (c) the general
approach was good and in general well expressed, but (d) the whole conception
of the paper may well have been faulty.
This last point is the one that bothers me at the moment. I can see that
the Netherlands, with its Far Eastern troubles and its peciialized interests
might have been found inadaptable to this particular study, while Luxembourg,
as merely an appendage to Belgi
Olf
or whatever country best fills the bill
might as well be attached to Belgium, ' -. Fact remains, however, tat
in Inrrent thinking about these c::utries---Indonesia aside for the moment---
the name is Benelux, so that when you talk about Belux alone, something seems
to be missing. Furthermore, Belgium, like Holland, has an overseas empire of
its own which hanpens to have atomic materials, though the resident pereonnel
are not actin- like Indonesians at present.
The upshot would seem to me to be one of selection. If you are going to
put Belgi7m and Lux t~r Netherlands dis-
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appeared. If you treated Belgium and the Netherlands spearately, you would
wonder why you had to go through a separate printed report for such a tiny
matter as Luxembourg. If you -id Benelux as one paper, you might wonder why
these diverse colonial empires had to be mixed up in an essdntially European,
or ERP report. The latter would still appear to me, though, to be the only
out. Youtd have to treat the colonial angle in special appendixes with
liberal references to FE/P reports on the same.
The trouble wit'i above is that the blame probably attaches to us
primarily. We ought to have specified such reporting from the beginning. I
bring up above comments in this regard only because I thin'- that -f the
attached report were published as is, confusion---arising primarily from the
non-appearance of the tetherlandsemight result, especially because so much
thini_,ng is now centered around ECA in which Benelux has become a bloc
inseparable.
From my brief glance, I doubt that it woud be possible in any case to
get this out of tie way beforethe departure of Luck. If this is assumed, time
might be offered to allow inclusion of the Ditch report---presumbbly on the w cys
somewhere---in this as'a composite. If not---a-,d if abo e objections are
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brushed aside (I should think that the Sk could be brought to axska s
the stage of completion rather quickly after an editorial eye had been quizzicialJy
cast over the paper.
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