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    "ocrText": "DECLASSIFIED\nRESTRICTED\n1 E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D)\n-3-\nBYHK-NLT NARS Date 3-14-33\nUS Acts\nSoviet Response\nother countries for purposes\nof economic and political\ndomination.\n2. UNRRA supplies to the\n2. Little public recognition\nvalue of $250 million were\nwas given in the Soviet\nsent to Byelorussia and the\nUnion to the UNRRA program or\nUkraine. Seventy-two per-\nto the US share therein.\ncent of the cost of the\nUNRRA program was borne by\nthe US.\nto\n3. The Soviet Union was\n3. A Soviet delegation parti-\ninvited to participate in\ncipated in the initial\nthe Committee of European\nmeeting of the Committee of\nEconomic Cooperation, which\nEuropean Economic Cooperation,\nmet in Paris in July 1947 to\nonly to be promptly withdrawn.\nconsider Secretary Marshall's\nThe Soviet Government there-\nproposal to implement European\nupon refused to engage in or\nrecovery with American aid.\nto allow its satellites to\nn.t\nengage in discussions on the\nnot estotlog\nMarshall Plan and forced\nbas\nCzechoslovakia to withdraw.\nIt launched a violent propa-\nn.t notnU\nganda offensive, pronouncing\nnom\nthe Marshall Plan an imperial-\nist measure designed to\nenslave Europe, and set up the\nent\nCominform with the announced\npurpose of preventing its\nrealization.\nbestas\nC. DECISIONS MADE AT MEETINGS OF HEADS OF STATES\nORCHIVER AND\nTHUMAND A\n(Political and Territorial Questions)\n1. At Yalta:\n1. The Soviet Union agreed at\nYalta to concert with other\na. The US agreed to the\nsignatory powers in assisting\ncession of the Kurile\nliberated countries to solve\nIslands and Southern\nproblems by democratic means,\nSakhalin to the USSR.\nbut failed to observe this\ncommitment.\nb. US agreed to\nrecognize paramount Soviet\nThe Soviet Government failed\ninterests in Dairen,\nto observe the Yalta commitments\nRESTRICTED"
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