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Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000168 TOP SECRET # Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Reports Meeting With Soviet Ambassador Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Jose Chiriboga on the previous day he had had "the opportunity of discussing with the Russian ambassador future visits of a commercial nature." Chiriboga arrived in the United States in late December to discuss US economic assistance to Ecuador and the Eleventh Inter-American Conference which is scheduled to be held in Quito this year. Ecuador has indicated increased interest in relations with the Soviet bloc in the past six months. The conservative Ponce administration which preceded the incumbent administration of President Velasco permitted the Czechoslovak minister to Brazil to be accredited also to Quito last summer. Ecuadorean-Czech relations had been inactive since the closure of the Czech legation in Quito in 1957. Under the Velasco regime, the leftist minister of education traveled to Prague where he entered into a preliminary agreement to purchase about $630,000 in technical equipment for schools and received a Czech offer to provide a $10,000,000 credit. The contract for technical equipment has now been signed, according to a press report of late December. Ecuadorean representatives have recently talked with Frantisek Mares, key figure in Czech arms deals, about the exchange of Czech small arms for Ecuadorean cacao, ____________________________, which has given Czechoslovakia permission to reopen its legation in Quito, and a Czech representative was scheduled to arrive there on 27 December. TOP SECRET 5 Jan 61 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 7 Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000168

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