835.24/2544: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Bowers) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:58 p.m.]
256. By further consultation relation to disposal of the copper control agreement, the Under Secretary of Ministry of Economy and Commerce yesterday agreed to request his Foreign Office to instruct the Chilean Ambassador in Buenos Aires to seek assurance from the Argentine Government to the effect that future copper shipments to that country will not be appropriated or diverted to firms on the Proclaimed List.
He stated that the Chilean Government would agree to give assurance to the United States that copper will be exported only to satisfactory consignees upon the termination of the copper control agreement so he saw no objection to the foregoing as a condition precedent.
Repeated to Buenos Aires.