SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 13, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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BIWEEKLY REPORT
SINO - SOVIET BLOC
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
EIC-WGR 1/133
13 March 1961
PREPARED BY THE WORKING GROUP
ON SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
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Summary of Eyents*
24 February - 9 March 1961
The USSR has extended to Pakistan a 12-year, $30 million line of
credit at 2. 5 percent interest to be used for petroleum prospecting and
surveying. President Ayub is reported to have said that this pact would
be followed by a trade agreement with the USSR and that, in addition,
Poland and Czechoslovakia have hinted at the possibility of the extension
of credits.
A number of recent developments suggest that Mali is establish-
ing close economic ties with the Bloc. For example, (1) Mali has
agreed to sell almost all of its peanut crop (its principal export) to
the Bloc; (2) Mali recently has concluded an. economic pact with Com-
muni s t China, and (3) Mali has announced a currency union with Guinea
and reportedly is having its currency printed in Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovakia has agreed to build a technical school for Somalia.
The total value of the project, including the cost of equipment and the
salaries of Czechoslovak teachers, is $1. 4 million. Czechoslovakia
also is reported to have offered to purchase the entire Somali produc-
tion of hides and skins.
Burma has almost completed negotiations with the USSR for the
purchase of arms worth $20 million. The USSR reportedly will ex-
tend to Burma a 15-year credit under which Burma will buy heavy
military equipment including antiaircraft artillery, planes, and radar
equipment at "giveaway" prices.
Under terms of an agreement for general scientific cooperation,
the USSR and Indonesia will exchange small groups of scientific per -
sonnel during 1961. In addition, two Indonesians will participate in
oceanic research on board, a Soviet ship, and the USSR has offered to
construct a satellite-tracking station at Bandung.
* An unclassified table showing the number of Bloc economic tech-
nicians in underdeveloped countries between 1 July .and 31 December
1960 is included in this issue on p. 7.
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CONTENTS
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I. Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Soviet Credit to Pakistan for Petroleum
Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A. Summary of Malian-Bloc Economic Relations . . 1
B. Czechoslovak Offer of Aid to Somalia . . . . . . 4
III. Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
A. Prospective Burmese-Soviet Arms Agreement . . 5
B. . Soviet-Indonesian Scientific Cooperation . . . . . 6
Table
Bloc Economic Technicians in Underdeveloped Countries,
1 July - 31 December 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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B. Soviet-Indonesian Scientific Cooperation
An .agreement for general cooperation in the scientific field has
been signed between the Indonesian Council for Sciences and a delegation
of Soviet scientists who recently completed a 3-week tour of Indonesia.
Under the agreement the USSR will send to Indonesia during :1961 a
botanist, four veterinarians, and a dennegrapher. Indonesia, in turn,
will send to the USSR four experts in the Indonesian language and culture
and one or two geologists. In addition, two Indonesians will participate
in oceanic research to be conducted by Soviet scientists on board a
Soviet ship. Before its departure on 1 March the Soviet delegation also
offered to construct a satellite-tracking station at Padjadjaran University
at Bandung, West Java.
This agreement is Indonesia's first pact for general scientific
cooperation with the USSR. Expenditures under the agreement probably
will be funded under the $250 million line of credit extended by the USSR
in February 1960. An agreement in January 1961 provides for extensive
Soviet assistance to Indonesia in developing its nuclear energy capacity. *
The satellite-tracking station offered by the Soviet scientific delegation,
if accepted by Indonesia, would be the first such Soviet station located
outside the Bloc.
* See the Biweekly Report of 30 January 1961.
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Bloc Economic Technicians in Underdeveloped Countries a/*
1 July - 31 December 1960
Area and Country
Total
6,510
Latin America
Argentina
55
Brazil
10
Chile
5
Cuba
220
Middle East
4, 390
Afghanis tan
1, 650 b/
Greece
5
Iran
60
Iraq
400
Pakistan
5
Turkey
70
UAR -- Egypt
530
UAR -- Syria
540
Yemen
1,130 b/
Africa
Ethiopia
40
Ghana
100
Guinea
400
* Footnotes follow on p. 8.
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Bloc Economic Technicians in Underdeveloped Countries a/
1 July - 31 December 1960
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Area and Country
Technicians
Asia
1,285
Burma
60
Cambodia
235
Ceylon
40
India
735
Indonesia
165
Nepal
50
Europe
5
Yugoslavia
a. Minimum estimates (rounded to the nearest five) of the
number of persons present for a period of 1 month or more.
b. Including technicians and laborers.
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