Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, BN
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 08/29/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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ORIGINATOR:

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FROM: LEG, BN

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 08/29/1963

PAGES:

1

SUBJECTS :

CIP, B/F INT, RACK AND SUBV

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 1A

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/30/1998

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TO DIRECTOR

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NO. 211

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RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATIONA

IN THIS DOCUMEN ENGER

BRACKETS

KP 1-15-48

'CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM, MIAMI DIVISION.

REBUCAB AUGUST

26

•[JOHN P. DIMMER, CHIEF OF STATION, CIA, BERN, STATED HE HAD NO

KNOWLEDGE OF TRANSACTIONS WITH SWISS BANKS AS MENTIONED IN REBUCAB

AND ADDED HE THOUGHT ALLEGATION SOUNDED EXTREMELY DOUBTFUL.

CHARLES W. BASS, ECONOMICS SECTION, EMBASSY, STATED HE HAD NEVER

HEARD OF SUCH LOANS MADE BY SWISS BANKS AND CLAIMED THEY SOUNDED

HIGHLY UNLIKELY. HE POINTED OUT THAT IF AN AFRICAN LOAN WERE

UNDERWRITTEN AGAINST DEFAULT -BY U.S., THEN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY

COULD EASILY BORROW MONEY IN SWITZERLAND AT 5 OR 6 PER GENT. INTER-

EST INSTEAD OF 15. BASS STATED U.S. GOVERNMENT TO HIS KNOWLEDGE

UNDERWRITES INVESTMENT AND EXPORT RISKS FOR AMERICANS: DEALING WITH

UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES BUT HE REGARDED U.S. UNDERWRITING OF

AFRICAN BONDS NOT LIKELY AND AN INVITATION TO FRAUD. HE SUGGESTED

THAT INFO ON THIS SUBJECT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FROM U.S. TREASURY

DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (AID). RUC.

4-29-98

CLASSIFIED BY 5668 SLD/KSR

HENRY D. GRUSH

DECLA

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paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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