AID AND TRADE ACTIVITIES OF COMMUNIST COUNTRIES IN LESS DEVELOPED AREAS OF THE FREE WORLD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01090R000700020089-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: June 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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BIWEEKLY REPORT
AID AND TRADE ACTIVITIES
OF COMMUNIST COUNTRIES
IN LESS DEVELOPED AREAS
OF THE FREE WORLD
EIC WGR 1/217
1 June 1964
PREPARED BY THE WORKING GROUP
ON COMMUNIST AID AND TRADE ACTIVITIES
IN LESS DEVELOPED AREAS OF THE FREE WORLD
ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
SECRET
EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC DOWNGRADING
AND DECLASSIFICATION
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Summary of Events
15-2$ May 1964
During President Brezhnev's visit to Afghanistan in October 19639
the USSR extended a credit of $39 million to finance the construction of
a 100-mile pipeline from the Afghan gasfields near Shibarghan to the
Soviet border as well as to finance the initial production of natural gas.
Annual exports of gas totaling 1. 5 billion cubic meters (75 percent of
planned production) are scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 1966
and to extend through 1985. The USSR intends to use these imports of
gas to supply the municipal needs of Dushambe and to provide the raw
material for the Vakhsh nitrogen fertilizer plant -- the first chemical
plant in Tadzik SSR.
Under the Soviet aid program the USSR reportedly is willing to
provide and install a medium-wave 1, 000-kilowatt transmitter for All-
India Radio and to construct the radio station buildings at an estimated
total cost of about $2. 1 million.
A new Soviet credit valued at $280 million to the United Arab
Republic (UAR) was announced at the conclusion of Premier Khru,!i
shchev's recent visit. The new credit is for projects under the
Egyptian Second Five Year Plan due to begin on 1 July 1965 and prob-
ably will be used for, among other things, a steel complex and both
thermal electric and hydroelectric powerplants. Since 19578 Soviet
economic credits extended to the UAR have amounted to about $833
million and total Communist economic credits to more than $1 billion.
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Kenyan Aid Agreements with the USSR and Communist
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A. Additional Soviet Economic Assistance for the
Exploitation of Afghan Natural Gas . . . . . . .
B. Soviet Offer to India of a Radio Transmitter . . . 2
New $280 Million Soviet Credit to the United Arab
Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Ceylon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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