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831.24/12–3043

Memorandum by the Liaison Officer (Wilson) to Mr. Bainbridge C. Davis, Division of North and West Coast Affairs

[Washington,] December 30, 1943.

Mr. Davis: Referring to your memorandum of December 29, 19431 and your request for additional information concerning Lend-Lease2 and other military assistance extended to Venezuela, there is set forth hereafter the latest available information on this subject supplementary to the detailed data furnished you a few weeks ago:

Air and Ground Material

Dollar Value of Lend-Lease
Equipment furnished Venezuela
(As of September 30, 1943)

Original Lend-Lease allotment (Agreement between Dept. of State and LA3 Representative) Dollar value of “Floated” material* (Shipping Ticket) as of 30 Sept. 1943 (Air and Ground) Percent of total received Amount yet to be allotted Amount Percent
$15,000,000 $l,441,822† 10% $13,558,178 90%

Naval Material

Lend-Lease Credit

Estimated Value on Completion (As of November 22, 1943) Value of Deliveries to August 31, 1943
$1,061,787 $334,934†

In addition to the foregoing, the Navy Department has under consideration the possibility of leasing six 83 foot vessels to Venezuela the value of which totals $660,000.

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The Navy Department may desire to lease only three of these vessels in which case their value would amount to $330,000.

United States Military and Naval Missions to Venezuela

On March 24, 1941 an Agreement was signed between the Governments of Venezuela and the United States,4 which provides for a United States Naval Mission. So far as we know this mission (composed of 5 officers and several enlisted men) is performing very satisfactorily.

Negotiations are about to be concluded for the signing of an Agreement for a United States Military Aviation Mission to Venezuela.

One Venezuelan National is now attending the United States Naval Academy (entered in 1943).

Orme Wilson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. For text of the Lend-Lease Agreement between the United States and Venezuela, signed March 18, 1942, see Foreign Relations, 1942, vol. vi, p. 739.↩
  3. Presumably Lend-Lease.↩
  4. “Floated” material signifies equipment which has been shipped out of the U. S. A. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  5. Note: On 1/14/43, Mr. Kempter of FEA (Lend Lease) stated that cumulative $ value of Ld. Lease exports through 8 Spt. 1943 was $1,465,000 (= air, ground naval, & Treasury Procurement items) according to his “official” Ld. Lease figures. RA/B. C. Davis. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  6. Note: On 1/14/43, Mr. Kempter of FEA (Lend Lease) stated that cumulative $ value of Ld. Lease exports through 8 Spt. 1943 was $1,465,000 (= air, ground naval, & Treasury Procurement items) according to his “official” Ld. Lease figures. RA/B. C. Davis. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  7. Department of State Executive Agreement Series No. 203; 55 Stat. (pt. 2) 1235.↩