SUPPLIES OF PYRITES FOR SWITZERLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400500003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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,OUNTRY Spain/Switzerland DATE )ISTR. 23 Iov. 1931
;UBJECT Sup,v].ies of Pyrites for Switzerland NO, OF PAGES
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Owing to the policy followed by, the Rio,Tinto Company on export6,76f4
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since the _ ocean .tti.. begun 3witzorf and Is now hrav3 nC. to eeic s ppl3 es in
Greece Italy. Pyrites obtained frog. these countries pare i~;u~l in s
technicall. value to the Spanish .'roduct but delivery is slow and roc f f.
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They withheld action, however, when they succeeded in ` obtaining; Syr tea; from
Rio Tinto Company' a monopolistic policy on their trade ro]atA nne iv3 tiYi
addressing ~arotets to the Spanish government recardinc the effect of the'
Both .:'.the Swisp and the; Belg an governmehts-` swrere rc~c?ntly ox~" tl~a'' r~oirljt a
3. believed that if numerous protests of the kind mentioned in paragraph
2 m .teri._J.ized, the Spanish government aught begirt to talk of nationalization.1
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Treported that the 'RANCO govern' ont Wa,s considerii6i .tans : fop the
nc onalization of Rio Tinto
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