SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 5, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET 218
BIWEEKLY REPORT
SINO - SOVIET BLOC
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
Number 2
5 March 1956
PREPARED BY THE WORKING GROUP
ON SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
SECRET
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WARNING
THIS MATERIAL CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECT-
ING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES
WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE LAWS,
TITLE 18, USC, SECTIONS 793 AND 794, THE TRANSMIS-
SION OR REVELATION OF WHICH IN ANY MANNER TO
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CONTENTS
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I. Summary of Events, 15-27 February 1956 ,. . . . . . . 1
II. Background Notes on Items of Special Interest . . . . . 2
A. Offer of Soviet Aid to Lebanon . . . . 2
B. Ceylon Rice-Rubber Agreement with Communist
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
C. Sino-Soviet Overtures to Pakistan . . . . . . . 5
D. Chinese Communist Trade Agreement with India . . 6
E. Sino-Soviet Bloc Trade Agreements with Portugal 7
F. Progress of Soviet Credit to Afghanistan 8
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Other Significant Developments . . . . . . . . . . . 11
A. Technical Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
B. Industrial Installations . . 11
C. Trade Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
D. Trade Agreements ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
E. Credits Extended . . . . . . . . . . 13
F. Transportation Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS*
I. Summary of Events, 15-27 February 1956,
During the second half of February 1956, the most significant Sino-
Soviet Bloc efforts to expand economic relations with underdeveloped
areas of the Free World were the offer of Soviet technical assistance to
pro-Western Lebanon, the proposal that Pakistan and the USSR exchange
trade missions, and the negotiation of a trade agreement between India
and Communist China.
Countries of the Sino-Soviet Bloc concluded a total of 9 trade agree-
.ments with:Portugaland Yugoslavia which provided for a substantial ex-
pansion o:. trade between those two countries and the Bloc.
In the'Middle East and in South Asia, the Bloc was reported to have
agreed to=build and install several complete industrial plants -- Hungary
to construct a power station in Egypt, and the USSR to provide irrigation
and telej hone facilities in Kabul, Afghanistan, taking over a contract
which previously had been awarded to West Germany.
In the Far East, Communist China for the first time contracted for
the installation of a complete industrial plant in a non-Bloc country --
a textile mill in Burma. A notable feature of the proposed trade agree-
ment between India and Communist China was the offer by Communist
China to supply steel, cement, and soda ash.
In South America, trade delegations from Poland, Hungary, and
East Germany are negotiating in Santiago for expanded Bloc trade with Chile.
* Although the main emphasis of the Biweekly is on economic activities
of, the Sino-Soviet Bloc in underdeveloped areas of the Free World, Sig-
nificant Bloc activities of this nature in areas not considered under-
developed also will be discussed,
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