14-00000 7 Poin scare tee ot occ Menino at mee BSED Usb Wehecane. » otse ctebDibhionin date 4 brecxG Ae . ; E | | [DISPATCH [ren ne i Chief of Station, Athens . X_[ao means aequno —T| 4 a | she . : MADQARTLES OFS ; 7 Chief, NE; Chief, WH EAN FL0GE IRODIING it 4 | [Ro . J SSS ABSTRACT 7 fe Se r Chief of Station, JMWAVE RAY aicroriue i * : , p@RTYPIC MHVIPER/ANSCROLL ! : . iL O Letters Regarding Greek Shipping and Cuba } i 4 _ | Pacton requiney - nererences a 4 wd i Action: FYI 4 s > 3 . . 2 The economic research unit of AMSCROLL has throughout the past ; . | year received seven anonymous letters from Athens. These letters i 3 or : €, describe in detail Greek and Lebanese shipping with Cuba and appear : : , : to have been written by someone knowledgeable of his subject. The t j : author apparently has access to ANSCROLL publications as he makes l 4 : reference to "your circulars". We forward a set of these lettcrs ; ma * a by separate cover as they may be of interest and of possible use. 4 at : The axISCROLL shipping studies have made a veiled acknowledgment of ; 4 : : receipt of this material by referring to information received from : 3 a : friends in Greece; however, AMSCROLL has used only those facts that i | ; : we can check out here. As indicated on certain of the letters, - By ememeemammgtrene Wet + ween we reiny - eopies of various ones have been sent to the “Ministry for Foreign : ‘ . | Affairs, Washington"; the U.S. Ambassador, London; or the U.S. : ‘e 3 Ambassador, Athens, A copy of the last letter received by AMSCROLL was : i . : sent all three, oe, . - . : sone 2s : a 3 F : ’ ‘ Philip G, ELMARD : 4 ae Distribution ce oO : 4 2 : 3 - CO0S/Athens w/att USC ; ! { ; 2 - C/NE w/o Se ite net ud t NeAAfL % iceufatt LA t Necri/e j 4 i | 9 2 = WH/c w/att USC afi RI/AN t : Attachment , 0 . f - te : i { Yetters . . . 3 - oO . 19-126-26 4 i” - ao : GATE TED DATE OisPATCHED a . . Hy 4 | | aw. ae &S COPY: 5 Jan 1967 | JAN -6 196 d , : f chods RestrEnce 1 DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER ” 3 q vs 3 .2 4 8 : 4 : tieer't ' UFGA~26699 : sara eaebial : HEADQUARTERS FILE NUMBER ' Sevlesitoce ven Gas an, SECRET * 49=-120-~26/3 :
- - yom oe ko. oF seem ar ° , : a : he Sd * * i 5 : wee es a i 3 : 4 : } 4 . . Le aa ane we ape ne ad Moers . ~ - Cone e -#t . i 3 : aa 2 ~~ CUBAN TRADING aS an Po 4 Econom{c Research Bu. 4, at x Unidad xevolutionaria, ¢ 4 . 40°, Som. 9th Street, ; j “ RYANT , Fla. Uda F 4 Last week wo wrote you few notes regarding illegal Cuban trading ; @lso that the Greek authorities , no doubt through Ns. pressure (a? LAST), are now investigating... nenes of ships and Owners who have been trading ‘with Suba dlleguliv since 1953. Theres is nov guite a let sf prapenanda going on that those investigations will be expedited tnrouga the Hurbour asters in Greeca, and Consular authorities in ports outside Greece. Tnis news is of course to please USa, and to send to sleep those who 2+". Know nothing about the business, ordinary public opinion. As we said “+ befors nothing much will te done, excent some isolated, probably,cases, mostly of small Owners , to just please Usa etc., In fact, nothing will be done, because the Cree: Authorities ‘opts oe <a hbo Se ene ge bbe omen weer nes © baat fads ope a get to te ee will firstly have to punish i wee  - TH&SsLVES before they can punish the Ovners, Captains ete., mainly for . :f . the following reasons: . | _ . 2, The Gresk authorities know at al) timas where Greek ships are ca pce aren Pte eae eee TORS trading, through their soecial Depurtments. They knew and know where the ships ‘vere and are, and have never done anytaing about it. ' 2. If in any snecial cases they did not knov themeelves , they ovens erent 30 ger Saehaé prominin * Knew it through your elreulara, also throuch the Black Lists : 1h en eon d aaded by the Usa Authorities, . teas cen eats cleiaE Saini nat bso ee. | . d 3 Many ships srrived or salled ,»or called for bunkers and .- que tnt ; . supplies thro:-gh Greek porte(or Deets abroud with Grees i 3 sake ae Consular Authorities sttending), and obtained clearance papers : 4 ; for Guba or cleesred having errived from Cuba. Not a word was i : a , sald about it. » i “ ee ae Ri} a ; 4. AND MOST DiPOSTANT, i y a ° Greek ships, by special law, pay Income Tax, nothing on profite i i va Oe as other industies ,but on cach charter party voyase, whether a a a on ; ordinary voyage or timecharter. They pay a percentage ranging a 4 on from Ig to 4. on the gross freight or hire, ésnending. on she. -age of the ship (excluding new ships up to five years old payins nothing. Tax is payable in six ronhthly periods. “Jhen the Incons Tax Return is submitted to the Inleni Revenue, Collector of Taxes(under the jurisdiction of the “inistr y of Finance, the © 0 3 following Docunents ars submitted and attached t> the Returns. oo 2 : t plot ee 22 - A/. The CHARTER PaRTY (properly certified). . ae rr 3 ’ B/, Freight Statement sho-ing exact details of freignt - moa *. es rate, tons of corgo carried under that churterzarty, i zs ; and the totel freight(gross) earned and upon which a a ae . the tax nereentage is pavable . . Lo hs 3. ” oe . C/ Sworn deposition of the Owners that alk doeunents i % os . ot “ submitted are correct abdd true, azain confirming 4 - the gross earnings of the vovage, which voynze mist - E be ex;lained in detail, port loaded, port discharged, 4 dates, duration ete. oF D/ MAST&RS LO} BOCK, duly cartified by the Hurbour taster or Greex Cunsular authority,if vescel abroad at the : Pine a this under the jurisdiction of the Ministry or ey p was wercuntile plarina! S/o adil UFCR- uUgp -126-2b ue It will be observed that in eddition to all other sources of infora , ation, the Linistry of Finanea(inlahd Revenue) , add the Ministry of a