EMBARGO ON SHIPMENTS FROM MACAO TO COMMUNIST CHINA
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP82-00457R008900140004-9
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RIPPUB
Original Classification:
S
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
November 16, 2016
Document Release Date:
October 26, 1999
Sequence Number:
4
Case Number:
Publication Date:
October 5, 1951
Content Type:
REPORT
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Approved For Release 2000/04/18 : CIA-RDP82-00457R008900140
IVr!i OFAX 23 CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
La aao/China
DATE DISTR<
5 Oot? 1961
SUBJECT
Embargo on Shipments from
Loo to Communist ,.GLain
NO. OF PAGES
1
DATE OF
INFO. Late September 1951
OF ENCLS.
DO NOT CIRCULATE SUPPLEMENT REPORT NO. TO 25X1X
1. In late September 1951 the Portuguese Government in Lisbon, at the behest of
the United%latioxas, instructed the Macao authorities that an embargo, effective
1 October 1951k, weak to be placed an the transportation of all military supplies
to Communist areas. Pedro Jose Lobo, head of the Repartioao Central dos
Servicos Eoonomioos, maintained that, inasmuch as no export licenses were
required in .aotao, it would be unnecessary to announce the embargo order, and
that the export business could continue.
2. On 26 September the chief of the t;.aoao Polioez a member of the anti-Communist
faction in the Saoao Government, went to a warehouse where ei t aircraft
e_ngine, yere st eLd t