ICELAND SITUATION REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200030036-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 36
• Content Type: REPORT

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SITUATION
Cie of Estimates pup
Lis first draft is above the average, present
is call for an especially well reasoned and written report of the SR type
on Iceland. This report, as it stands, does not measure up to the standards
met for Situation Reports in seneralt particularly for Iceland.
It aft= reasonable to assume that no report of as kind on Iceland would
call d for at this time were it not for the facts that (a) the island is
aoscrtly where it is, (b) a world poser with interests in the it ttio (which
and the at the mcamt) aeeest have control
the Atlantic
poseur to control it at all
c) the Ise-
any other o id. trol. With the
SR should treat (a) the political
attention to factors that will nee it relatively
hwrftr or Bier to deal successfully with Iceland in the matter of baftai (b) the
a
c probably with ~'+ti r
particular reference to ways in vhi+ehAtbe its or t35M could
in avoidin
*tltal7s
fr*ftbt and future
V. influenced or will iuf? wear Iceland E 5 presumed strategy
-- -- _Tw &Ow +csassaswuj %c/ z e3gn reiatsons Including
control or other countries in attempts to gain it; (d) the
on to MW the country may possess; (e) the
Bommase Iceland is in
mat different treatment.
all Such matters as polat
one with an the c ag
ways dif `erent from auk other Country, it re-
?tatistics
Other eountrlies you'd confine
the appendices, I think You'd dis-
of at least mbV' 4419 how MaW people theme are;
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low
politics --
on Iceland would
is that they should give one a better iz*
this rte, then the patient description of four
eo mbich
we just 1 of Others elders,
of Writhes, the piece suffers f z,= f --iar
tai a
III= t -- r. Iftt
the paw ds is sore
ca , ae=Othi to make it mesa grU.
I abOrt, atlas:, the paper coeds to be entirely Ott n ap ozieaately fjm
P. 1-1 to P. TI-i.
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I.
at trati k at e .
(?) the C,
that (a
romat.a
2. (pp. I-9
in dissolved and a new an
Mae
at all, but a rev t
a bt
typical of the "W
. The Conservative and C Parties Just like
the varld over, and the other. two hwm such *Isar face
elsewhere that a quick refsra s vmftd alb teeter t ' nt of tom. ?here
It would appear ra
(t
to be a serious f
i doesn't sally
in Icelandic life
to . at - n .Taco pbia .ie* of the people allow
berl. elate is the
reds. In air words
the few ata to
ist Paxty.
3. (pp.
19)
rid of inflation,
d be YIrtt*
(b
of t
DS. Wouldn+t this s
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bw* are really *lapis but base been
Have a suspicion that if you'd take the last sentence (on F. 1-23Y
f 1' the key to the ob and sounds like somethift
you'd
'Stability of the Present Ada nistrat
still don't know at the end of/whether
uomica Croup, Ns ispr'ovesect
Present adminiat tien is stable. What I get are two pages of rative history
which, if it belongs arWvbe re, belongs under history; two papa of r die-
cussion of the pernonaliss of Icelandic politics;
and a paragraph which allows
that eahould the situation deteriorate furthers some thing terrible night happen,
ii~itable Communista being in the usual woodpile.
(PP. II-I ff.). For any cossernts
riting. Unnecessarily long.
beyond that, I can't help feeling that it doesn't even tel the story o awtly
The text read, something like this
Icoe d 'requests , us. occupation (in which the paper some to toles an
WAVV diplomti.c formality at its face value).
(most of this I read by inference)
elpless they were; to
their ism bad become as a great-;
; to see that continued occupation
night well and 3aab3y aro zld lead by natural a# ps to lose of indepr rnce, and
t foreign troops in res ioe are not aloe
an addition to the co ty.
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. The u i that all these factors is heighte the _
Id Icelandic Fears of being liquidated by =s or nature., Hswes the, of
couldn't do it right then and
deal With h e rs
first
it
diplauwc7 (Which wasn't
ke Field
't. it ht
ikWon, I don't kww. And f1 l , thwe+ s fish. r+ece la tion is that
It night be bold, hmmwer
it's certainly not, exhausted
to ham bases in I erland or to got . us out of tie or
. he
Indeed g, #ad
R would Jibe either
as bait &W-have do= it in a rather sur teem =subtle even for tip ,y
of r lots of fish > y 80 long as theyeVO got styes C arts in the cabint and
tters do
a , are astonishing evaarjb>d~r by uia the
son,
Tperative, but whether or not he's ac ing but another feiler nerd
offer the mimuto friends are out. Inasumb as fib-bVift mist
aissi of the roe ,
Of Ru s3,a, t is seems an 2.,g fro* ad-
of the offer.
Tie of he
If so,, it Isn't dimm"d
Bien.
u? d sees t.% Taper
t be
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ol*at for purposes of
At
grant deal rust am, if it
e pow, Island
,00i air asm
b
general *our" of
.d be caster.
d,
i6ich would In t
its foreign ra*
It
ties
1001a , sopbabie partly for that r*asm,
the SmAl
f Iee3asmdis foreIgi ral+at
uI-"
In to" woad
bean, taxi
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