811.515/1705: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina (Armour) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:45 p.m.]
2310. Department’s 1716, November 12, 7 p.m.25 The Embassy is informally notifying the Central Bank that while it assumes that the exchange houses will continue to abstain from trading in dollar currency in accordance with the Central Bank’s regulations, our Government has requested of the Embassy for Proclaimed List purposes the names of any firms that may do otherwise in the future. Also the Embassy is discreetly letting the possibility of listing be known among the principal exchange houses. It is believed that this procedure will accomplish the desired purposes and will avoid any feeling on the part of the Central Bank that the Embassy is interfering in its own control measures concerning dollar currency which at least for the moment are proving effective.
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