Memorandum to James Lanigan from C. Dickerman Williams, with Attachment
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OCR Page 1 of 6DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR
WASHINGTON 25
September 11, 1951
Mr. James Lanigan
Room 298
Old State Building
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Mr. Lanigan:
I transmit herewith a memorandum from the Maritime Administra-
tion with respect to United Tanker Corporation in accordance with the
request which you made at our interview on Friday.
It may be helpful to you if I point up this memorandum in the
light of what I understand your interest to be.
China Trading and Industrial is a private corporation, but ap-
parently with close associations with the Nationalist Government as in-
dicated by the affiliations of Messrs. Chen and Wei (quotation on pp.2-3).
The money made available to United Tanker by China Trading and Industrial
came substantially from the Nationalist Government (par. 2, p. 2).
China Trading and Industrial chartered two of the tankers to
the Nationalist Government's subsidiary, Chinese Petroleum, at twice the
rate that China Trading and Industrial was paying the owner, United Tank-
er (par. 3, p. 2). Subsequently, China Trading and Industrial released
its charter rights to United Tanker who thereupon chartered two of the
vessels to Soviet agencies for the transport of oil or petroleum deriva-
tives to Communist dominated Chinese or Russian Asiatic ports as indica-
ted (bottom of p. 3). Although United Tanker is a Delaware corporation,
it acquired the tankers with funds from the Chinese sources indicated
(par. 2, p. 2); its stock is now owned by a trust for the benefit of the
Chinese and presumably it has at all times been dominated by Chinese of
Nationalist affiliation.
TRUMAN
Sincerely yours,
HABRY
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
SERVICE"
C.Dicherman Williams
SUPERVMENT
DECLASSIFIED
C. Dickerman Williams
Solicitor
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
COMM. LTR. 5-31-79
By NLT- HC NARS, Date 7-12-40
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