SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01090R000700020074-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: November 4, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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BIWEEKLY REPORT
SINO - SOVIET BLOC
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
EIC WGR 1/202
4 November 1963
PREPARED BY THE WORKING GROUP
ON SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
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Summary of Events
18-31 October 1963
Negotiations by the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture for the sale of
substantial volumes of beef and mutton to Communist China reportedly
are entering the final stage. Although Communist China is not normally
a heavy importer of meat, it has been stated that as much as 100, 000
tons of meat is being sought from Argentina. Argentine officials have
released no information on the proposed transaction. Doubt has been
expressed, however, that Argentina could supply more than 50, 000 tons
without disrupting shipments to its regular customers.
Two economic agreements were signed by the USSR and Afghanistan
during Soviet President Brezhnev's recent visit to Afghanistan. One
agreement was related to the exploitation of Afghanistan's natural gas
reserves, and the other to a joint Afghan-Soviet survey of the Ab-i-Panja
River, which forms the border between the USSR and northeastern
Afghanistan.
Poland and Hungary have offered economic credits, valued at $15
million and $10 million, respectively, to Iran for the purchase of sugar-
refining machinery and other industrial equipment. Czechoslovakia also
may have offered to sell machinery to Iran on favorable credit terms.
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CONTENTS
Argentine Negotiations for the Sale of Meat
to Communist China . . . . . . . . .
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II. Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Bloc Offers of Economic Credits to Iran . . . . . . . 1
III. Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Brezhnev's Visit to Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . 2
IV. Brief Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
United Arab Republic (UAR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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