Provisional Agreement
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/18/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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TITLE : Provisional Agreement

DATE : 9/18/1963

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

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COUNTRY

• CHINA:

NORTH KOREA

SUBJECT

JAPAN

CUBA

NORTH VIETNAM

PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN CUBAN

REPRESENTATIVE AND JAPANESE SHIPPING FIRM

TO BEGIN REGULAR SHIPPING SERVICE TO CUBA

VIA ROUTE LINKING: NORTH: KOREA, COMMUNIST

DATE OF

CHINA AND NORTH VIETNAM

INFO.

AUGUST TO MID. SEPTEMBER 1963

PLACE &

DATE ACQ. JAPAN, TOKYO (16. SEPTEMBER: 1963)

REPORT NO. TDCS -3/559,427

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18 sEPTEMBER 1963

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED. INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENT.

A JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN: (6) ASSOCIATED.WITH LEFTIST. BUSINESS CIRCLES, .FROM SEIWA

SHIPPING COMPANY OFFICIAL YONEKURA TSUTOMU. YONEXURA IN NOVEMBER:1962 SUCCESSFULLY

NEGOTIATED AND SIGNED A. CONTRACT WITH NORTH KOREA. WHICH INITIATED REGULAR SHIPPING:|

SERVICE BETWEEN JAPAN AND NORTH KOREA BY SEIWA KAIUN SHIP.

APPRAISAL:

THE PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT PROBABLY.HAS.BEEN SIGNED.

SUMMARY:

CUBAN AND JAPANESE: SHIPPING REPRESENTATIVES HAVE REACHED A

PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT TO OPEN A REGULAR SHIPPING SERVICE BETWEEN JAPAN

AND CUBA VIA NORTH KOREA, COMMUNIST CHINA AND. NORTH. VIETNAM. . AFTER

THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES THE AGREEMENT, THE JAPANESE REPRESENTATIVE

WILL DISCUSS THIS MATTER WITH NORTH KOREA, COMMUNIST CHINA AND

NORTH VIETNAM.

1• NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN BERNARDO C. REVUELTA, A CUBAN SHIPPING

OFFICIAL ASSIGNED TO THE CUBAN TRADE MISSIÓN IN TOKYO, AND SEIWA

SHIPPING COMPANY (SEIWA KAIUN) OFFICIAL YONEKURA TSUTOMU HAVE

RESULTED IN A PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT FOR REGULAR SHIPPING. SERVICE

BETWEEN JAPAN AND CUBA: BY SEIWA KAIÜN SHIPS VIA A: ROUTE LINKING

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TDCS - 3/559,427

NORTH KOREA, COMMUNIST CHINA, AND NORTH VIETNAM AS REGULAR STOPS

AND POSSIBLY INDONESIA AND CHILE AS STOPS ON CARGO-AVAILABLE BASIS

(SOURCE COMMENT. SEIWA KAIUN IS A SUBSIDIARY OF THE NISSHO

STEAMSHIP COMPANY (NISSHO KISEN). AT PRESENT SEIWA KAJUN HAS

ONLY TWO SHIPS, ONE OF WHICH IS IN REGULAR SERVICE. TO NORTH KOREA.

NISSHO KISEN IS SCHEDULED: TO SPLIT UP INTO "NISSHO KISEN" TO

HANDLE FOREIGN SHIPPING AND "NISSHO KAIUN" TO HANDLE DOMESTIC:

SHIPPING THE NEW NISSHO KISEN WILL IN TURN MERGE LATER THIS YEAR

WITH YAMASHITA KISEN AND SHIN NIPPON KISEN. TO FORM A NEW SHIPPING

COMPANY.. SEIWA KAIUN WILL REMAIN AS A DUMMY FIRM TO HANDLÉ BLOC

SHIPPING FOR THE NEW SHIPPING COMPANY. UNDER THE NEW SETUP,

SE IWA WILL HAVE MORE SHIPS AT ITS DISPOSAL.)

2. REVUELTA PREFERRED A DIRECT ROUTE BETWEEN JAPAN AND CUBA

• BUT. AGREED TO THE ROUNDABOUT ROUTE AS PROPOSED BY YONEKURA.

YONEKURA SAID THAT SINCE A DIRECT RUN WOULD NOT BE PROFITABLE IN

•VIEW OF THE PRESENT SMALL VOLUME OF EXPORTS TO CUBA, HE INSISTED

ON INCLUDING THE OTHER COUNTRIES MENTIONED IN THE ROUTE..

3.: AFTER THE CUBAN GOVERN MENT APPROVES THE AGREEMENT,

YONEKURA PLANS TO VISIT NORTH KOREA, COMMUNIST CHINA, AND

NORTH VIETNAM TO DISCUSS THIS MATTER.

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