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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00059A000500020004-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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rt*nc? to the US O
an civil aviation lies
contribution it could mace to the military airlift capabiliL
of the Western Weaisphero. This potenti
contribution has been ext anaed
lopme nt of Latin American ai
use by 93 airlines.. Latin American airlines, moreover, could serve
raw nateriala rcgni
ion with the US in aviation
equipment with i -ma ufacture4 transports of types
also a atrounstanoe. of political important
American countries of the basic principles of
eed in the adoption by such or irie a of f ormulae- for use
in bilateral civil air negotiations which are consonant with US ai4a for too-.
ional civil a
OUh
nee and the near
This association has
Latin American civil
o the US as a ediua for US capital invest-
utlet for the Vd aircraft
ustry,, *4 a pro
creiga
and therefore a stabilising factor in international
'station has experienced a rapid development in the
red. lamely as a result of 03 financial, technical and
purobas? at low *ant of relatively so
surplus a
sipment has enabled Latin American scheduled airlines to acquire
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cst*ar airline e$-anaioa is evidenced by the fact
scheduled by South American airlines in 1940 was a
0 aircraft are at leas
le Middle Aaerioan airlines sore
rood.. Total Latin American sobeftlod
0 percent of that fl
,port.
? current gradua
aviation sir advantageous to the
88 percent are of
has also reduced
the US in matters
owned and effevtively controlled by nationals. US stock hold-
airlines have t
on
been appreciably reduced
rest# will be adversely affected if international airline conpetitl
Sr sufticier tly+ intense to create a substantial trend
roteotion of national-flag, airlines against t
etvily sabssidisced foreign air carriers, The virtual a apoly of into
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tea held by U8 ai riinoa in 1945 has already been dissi.
V&ted by both the increase
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entries
iatVrnational cops
Beak aeoe
d trend toward reeatrie; tio* of
yin,. eric
of restr
principles, such as limitation of the flight frequencies of foreign carriers
ry and arbitrary division of air traffic
ty of Latin American airlines to provide inter
of other national
ties operating over competitive
rgoveri a nts have even stteapte
mg in opposition to basic US policy regardin,
eedo '* rights foreign airline competitors over certain segments of a
ftwos international rout. '1 ile these efforts have, been largely unsuccessful
they are
tioa. Should *Movement of this nature n&cS appreoiable hoada
a trend for restriction of fore
Ca
oh is oa? sing concern to the US in other areas of the world
Eould give imps
.d eventually a
Sally over world rou
ability of U8 carriers to compete success
:h tend to decrease U5 influence in gat
aviation in the future is the devaluation of currencies in the
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establishment of six European, sat. to or through
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MKing areas and
oity of dollars in Latin America. As a result
ft "O now types of British and !uropean air transport equipment will be
rican aircraft maanutaoturers p
tug sales resistance from Latin
ill encounter grow-
an airlines. Should this trend become
as red, it could put an end to the standardisation a:
aerican airline
by reducing tea effectiveness to the US
i,oan airlift assistance is a majo
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