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Chief, OS/Belgrade reports that Gen. Veleuit has informed
Ambassador Allen that all arrangements for liais n between
CIA and the UDB in Belgrade will be complete within a week.
The Yugoslav officer selected to conduct this liaison will
be the direct representative of Interior MinisteroRankovic
but will sit in the Yugoslav Foreign Office for cover pur-
poses and to avoid the precedent of allowing foreigners to
go directly to the Interior inistry. This procedure fol-
lows .that proposed by CIA during the original conversations
with Gen. Velebit.
Chief; British Secret Service/Madrid has indicated to the
U.S. Legal Attache that the British, having already flown
radio direction-finding equipment to Madrid, might proceed;
without Spanish approval to locate a clandestine tranamitter
in~the Valencia area which is one of the-targets of a joint
CIA-Spanish Intelligence project. Reporting this to OSO/
Madrid, the Legal Attache added that the Spanish Chief of
Counterintelligence has said, in view of.his agreement with
CIA, that hewould take action against. the British if they
should pursue the operation.
A Norwegian Intelligence officer. has advised OSO/Oslo that
Nils Langhelle, now Minister of Communications., will replace,
Defense Minister Hauge,;who may become Minister of Justice.
OSO fears that the .Chief of Norwegian Intelligence, owing to
his cordial personal relations with both' Mnisters, may
succeed in monopolizing liaison with ICIA by, dissolving OSO's
promising liaison arrangement with'the Norwegian Police,
approval of which was recently given with reluctance.
OSO representatives briefed Ambassador Christian Ravndal,
newly appointed US Minister to Hungary, on the status and.
duties of the OSO officer in Budapest. Ambassador Ravndal
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