ECONOMIC NEGOTIATIONS IN ETHIOPIA BY EMIL BUEHRLE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700590008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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991FORDWATION REPORT
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, .opia/S"tzerland
Econcmic Negotiations in Ethiopia
by Ea-1. Buehrlo
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Emil T3uebr .e* arrived in Addi is Ababa on 21 March 1949,, He .s acco n ed
by his Yiifo and by Dro Carlo Flea. cb nn9 a business associate who is
interested in grain and insurance. Txafornaat-states that F3uehrlo
cane to Et lops a. at the behest of David Halle., who has been att+ ting
to introduce 3 s Go n development investments into that countryo
Valle returned to Addis Ababa on 17 March 1949 from S tzerlanda wore
Howe erg upon his arrival,, Buehrle refused to take up the option0
Infoi not believes it probable that tl refusal was the result of
reports sent in by three investigators whoa Puehrie sent to Addis Ababa
ezirly in lc49o" Two of those investigators, Essa (fm) and Furl.
S'Iaa arc brt soh : tur d to Switzerland a few days after Buehrl c & s
2'71: " in Ethiopia,
30 Buehrle preserved a second proposal to the
Ethiopian Oovarnle r which 6ii bodiod the follovring terns%
the option for a cotton mamifacturing and Ong
con.cocsion,j granted to Buehrie in Avg wt 1948, was extended by the
Ethiopian Government to the date of his arrival in Addis llbaba? w
ao A monopoly on cotton r iufacture for twenty years,
No import duties or taxes on cotton for ten years.
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This proposal was rejected by the Ethiopian LLinistry of Con raerce llovrevory
i or It states that on 3 April 1949 Experor Ilaile Selassie ordered
the Ethiop: Min ter of Commerce to draw up an agreement that would be
acceptable to Buehrle, and that this. agreement was in the process - of
being drafted0 Buehrle departed frcm Addis !baba on P April 1949.
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Co - TIAL in accordance with the
letter of tober 1978 from the
Director of Cen elligence to the
Archivist of the Unite s.
document is hereby regraded to
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Buehrle v s first trip to Ethiopiag acaordizv t._? ,.., ;?o at$ was in
1932 for the pia-pose of se-1 to that couitry. informant'
state +!-", , ;juef-wle did ship some Qe,rlikon gwia to Et i p ,a In
93S vda.a ch never were pad for, and that this debt is a
consideration in the present negotiationao,
5c Infor;: nt states that Buchrle, while recently in. Addis Ababa.9 held
a etin ; with Ban= (fan) and SDesohe i (f w) of the Ethiopian
W. nlstry of Postsp Telegraphs,, and Telephones IP,To)n The
subject discussed was the possibility of Siemens and Ila1s
tti ; the contract to extend Etbiapia v a teleco dc ti one
faci 1 t .a r.4'
25X1A6a Comm, EaD. Bueh9lo is the Honorary T.~'th,?~x~p
o ily : Go a." ,tzerland, rand thh pri, ipal owner of
she ~xdeimeug2a 'scbi RLt in g It ,i SprbY.[tzer25X1 A 2
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Ova "CIRL-9r, ara op Nora 1~ith BuehrlQ acacia
on 14 August i918 The tern of the option were to
give Emil, Buehrle Associates the rift to produce and
rufactvre cotton and cotton products in Ethiopia1,
if a contract of concession was signed within six swaths
25X1A6a of the date of the signature of the option,,
Com nt_ 0 Soharrerh- .eueh Is a former Gejymn
0m pis a reported to be wry for the Nazi
govormw. xt of Germarkr during World War 11 in an
intef i ce capacity., but who was stilt able to
convince the Russians that- he a- good Comfmuaist
solace captured in Bucharest, Rumania, in 19W,, Subject
has made Z lch, Switzerland, the center of his activities
since 19pt?6, although ho travels a great doala lie is reportedly
an agricmitura3. mcpert, Reports received since 1946 have stated,
that subject was s'crlclnt for the Soviet Union and satellite
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4 ? g Co .enter Buehrle r?ecor needed
.Oess iexa to Halle, who was rosporisible for their
being employed by the Uiniotry of Posts, Telegraphs, and
Telephones on t e year contractts?
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