2 interesting US diplomatic reports from 1973 TITO & GADDAFI - Titos East-West Cold War balancing act shtick to gain Libyan cash and oil... and to to think the evil west allowed Tito to do such a thing...perhaps the West didnt destroy Yugoslavia as Serb nationalist posing as anti-gloablist campaigner and Belgrade cafe conspiracy theorist Boris Malagurski would have us believe, maybe it was Slobodan Milosevics fault after all.. 2 interesting US diplomatic reports from 1973 1. Hmmmm - 1973 Very Naughty Yugoslav Doctors and Nurses - in Libya ! Yugoslavia steals French contract to provide medical services to oil-rich Libya.. I heard there was quite a few Macedonian doctors and nurses who worked in Libya ! 2. Yugoslavia, despite Boris Malagurskis conspiracy theory, using its Cold War relationships to buy US helicopters and then re-sell them to the Libyans for training of the PLO... -------------------------------------- US Diplomatic cable - wikileaks (Julian Assange).. CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 TRIPOL 00727 301126 Z 45 ACTION AF-18 INFO OCT-01 EUR-25 NEA-10 ADP-00 AID-20 IGA-02 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PM-07 H-02 INR-10 L-03 NSAE-00 NSC-10 PA-03 RSC-01 PRS-01 SS-15 USIA-12 RSR-01 /141 W --------------------- 075315 R 300910 Z MAY 73 FM AMEMBASSY TRIPOLI TO SECSTATE WASHDC 0144 INFO AMEMBASSY BEIRUT C O N F I D E N T I A L TRIPOLI 0727 E. O. 11652: GDS TAGS: PFOR ETRN LY FR SUBJECT: FRENCH COMPLAINTS IN LIBYA 1. TO HEAR HIM TELL IT, FRENCH EMB COUNSELOR CHARLES JEANTELOT IS FED TO THE GILLS WITH THE LARG. NO DOUBT AS AN OLDTIMER HERE, THREE YEARS, HIS DISENCHANTMENT WITH OUR HOSTS IS GETTING TO BE SOMETHING PERSONAL. NEVERTHELESS, HE CITES THE FOLLOWING THREE CASES OF GALLIC FRUSTRATION WHICH ARE QUITE UNDERSTANDABLE: A. LAST YEAR AFTER LONG AND COMPLEX NEGOTIATIONS FRENCH EMBASSY SIGNED AGREEMENT WITH LARG TO PROVIDE OVER 100 FRENCH GOVT DOCTORS, NURSES, AND TECHNICIANS TO STAFF NEW HOSPITAL HERE. LAST MONTH EMBASSY RECEIVED NOTE FROM MFA CANCELING THE AGREEMENT. NO EXPLANATION GIVEN, OR OBTAINABLE ORALLY EITHER. TWO WEEKS LATER IT ANNOUNCED YUGOSLAVIA HAD SIGNED AGREEMENT FORSAME SERVICES. B. EARLY MAY A NEWLY ARRIVED FRENCH PILOT FOR LAA WAS EXPELLED FROM LIBYA ON 48- HOUR, UNEXPLAINED CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 TRIPOL 00727 301126 Z NOTICE. JEANTELOT HEARD INDIRECTLY LARG COMPLAINT WAS PILOT HAD REFUSED TO ALLOW A VISITOR TO COCKPIT. REVIEWING PASSENGER LIST AND CHECKING WITH STEWARDESS, JEANTELOT PIECED TOGETHER FOLLOWING SCENARIO: RCC MEMBER MOHAMED NAJM WAS TRAVELING FIRST CLASS AND ASKED STEWARDESS TO SHOW A LIBYAN PASSENGER WHAT COCKPIT OPERATIONS LOOKED LIKE. STEWARDESS TOLD PILOT PASSENGER REQUESTED ENTRY. PILOT REFUSED BECAUSE HE WAS ON AN APPROACH FOR LANDING. C. LAA HAS DECIDED TO SELL ITS REMAINING CARAVELLES TO MALTA AND PURCHASE THREE BOEINGS TO REPLACE THEM. JEANTELOT SAID HE THOUGHT THE BOEINGS WERE TO BE 727 S AND THE TIMING WAS THIS SEPTEMBER. IN ANY CASE, HE CONSIDERED LAA S PLANS TO DISPOSE OF THE CARAVELLES AS DIRTY POOL CONSIDERING ALL THAT AIR FRANCE HAD DONE FOR LAA. 2. JEANTELOT INDICATES HIS EMBASSY DOES NOT ALWAYS TAKE SUCH THINGS LYING DOWN. HE SAID THAT FOR SIX MONTHS LARG HAD REPEATEDLY STALLED ON SIGNING A PARTICULAR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AGREEMENT. WHEN RECENTLY THE LARG SUDDENLY WANTED TO SIGN IT, HE HAD INFORMED THEM GOF NOT PEPARED TO DO SO NOW. 3. COMMENT: IT WOULD BE WRONG TO DRAW CONCLUSION THE QUAI S POLICY OF COURTING THE LAR HAS NOT PAID OFF IN SOME WAYS. BUT NEITHER IS IT A BED OF ROSES FOR THE FRENCH HERE. ALL OF THE ROSES WE KNOW ABOUT IN ANY DETAIL HAVE THORNS. THAT APPLIES TO THE MIRAGE TRAINING AND SUPPORT PROGRAM TOO, THOUGH IT REMAINS THE BASIS FOR ALL THE OTHER GOF EFFORTS AND THE MARGINALLY PREFERENTIAL POSITION FRANCE HOLDS AMONG THE WESTERN EUROPEAN POWERS HERE. JOSIF CONFIDENTIAL NMAFVVZCZ search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973TRIPOL00727_b.html
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