CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A001000620001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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Stability of Bolivian government reportedly threatened by RFC
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5. Stability of Bolivian government reportedly threatened by RFC
ecision:
not recover, in the opinion of Ambassador Sparks e He added that
without- the assurance of a US market for half of the country's tin pro-
duction, economic chaos with the attendant political consequences will
be hastened.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation's
decision not to discuss a contract for the
purchase of Bolivian tin ores is a blow from
which the present Bolivian government may
The RFC decision, which has not yet been
made public, "came as a bombshelll" to the Bolivian cabinet and
caused it to wonder whether the United States is trying to force the
Paz government out of office.
Comment: Bolivian Ambassador Andrade
in Washington has been i one rmed that the RFC decision is based on
the fact that the United States now has sufficient tin to meet its esti-
mated requirements.
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The decision is likely to be distorted in
Bolivia as US retaliation for the government's tin nationalization
decree of last October.
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