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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. July 17, August 2, Agreement between the United States of America and Cuba respecting a [T. I. A. S. 182] cooperative program for weather stations in Cuba. Effected by ex- change of notes signed at HabanaJuly 17 and August 2, 1944; entered intoforce August 2, 1944. The American Ambassador to the Cuban Minister of State EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No. 32 Habana, July 17, 1944 EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that preliminary dis- cussions have taken place between representatives of the United States Weather Bureau, Department of Commerce, and the Cuban Meteoro- logical Service regarding the cooperative establishment and operation of a radiosonde station in Cuba to be located in the vicinity of Habana. Since that time Dr. F. W. Reichelderfer, Chief of the Weather Bureau, has corresponded with Dr. Jose Carlos Millas, Director of the Cuban Meteorological Service, on the subject, and my Govern- ment is informed that as a result the Weather Bureau and the Cuban Meteorological Service have agreed in principle that it would be desirable for their respective governments to cooperate in the estab- lishment and operation of this station. Funds have now been appropriated by the Congress of the United States of America to enable the Weather Bureau to proceed with the project under the program of the Interdepartmental Committee on Cooperation with the American Republics. To that end I have the honor to enclose, at the instance of my Government, a Memorandum Agreement setting forth in detail the conditions under which the Weather Bureau proposes to cooperate with the Cuban Meteorolog- ical Service in the establishment and operation of the station. My Government has already established a network of radiosonde observation stations in the United States, the West Indies, Mexico, and the Canal Zone, and feels that establishment of a station in Cuba would fill a gap in the network. Radiosonde observations are needed for the protection of military and commercial aircraft operating in this area, and also to provide advance information on destructive hurricanes that threaten civilian and military installations located in the region of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Therefore, as in the opinion of my Government this information is of vital importance to both countries, it trusts that the Cuban Govern- ment may give the enclosed Memorandum Agreement its urgent consideration and inform it at the earliest possible date whether it finds its contents acceptable. 4084

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