MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS OF UNEVALUATED INFORMATION

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• Publication Date: November 28, 1951

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MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS
OF
-UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CIA/SI-25.29-51
�28 November 1951
WARNING: This document contains information affect-
ing the national defense of the United States, within
the meaning of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the
U. S. Code, as amended. Its transmission or revela-
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1. Blood from Hungarian Prisoners Shipped to USSR.
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
At the demand of the Communist authorities,
the Minister of the Interior has announced
that each prisoner and each person interned
in a concentration camp will be required to
give blood periodically. The Ministry of
Public Health has arranged for 31 adbulances to tour the villages
of Hungary to collect blood. Most of this blood is being sent
to the USSR.
ANALYST'S COMMENT: This confirms
earlier reports of blood being flown to the USSR for Soviet
soldiers from the largest blood bank in Hungary in Szeged.
Because of this, the report is judged as true.
2. Para-Military Organization Developing Amateur Radio Network
in USSR.
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DOSARM is placing great stress on the
development of HAM operators. The aim
is to create sigaalists to be ultimately
used in the defense of the country.
MUST'S COMMENT* Emphasis on amateur
radio activities began again soon after World War II. Radio clubs
as an entity are subsidiary to the defense societies, but conduct
most of their activities in conjunction with DOURM. Wring 1950
the role of radio clubs was even more closely linked to military
and civilian defense needs. The importance of amateur radio
operators for maintaining communications in an emergency situation,
and for the supplementation of already existing networks, has con-
sistently been demonstrated
Also, the possibility of an
overloaded Soviet communications system under wartime conditions
might easily warrant a supplementary network. Planning for a
highly developed program of this type, therefore, is of consider-
able noteworthiness; particularly, in view of the fact that the
USSR normally depends (almost entirely) on its tightly controlled
state communication networks for military and civilian use.
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3. Shanghai Air Defense Preparations.
(1) In September comprehensive air raid
instructions were issued by Shanghai
Defense Headquarters. One provision re-
quired each factory, enterprise, government office and school to
designate special wardens to listen for air raid sirens. (2) A
new order, issued in Shanghai (10/22/51), requires property
owners to register buildings suitable for use either as bomb
she tprs or perches for lookouts and anti�aircraft runs.
(3)
all buildings with basement
facilities or those more than four stories high would be
registered for service "-whenever necessary."
ANAIYSTIS COMMENT
Most of the basic measures for air defense
seem to be covered, except for medical preparations. The plans
seem to be applicable to the lowest level of population and in-
dustrial groups in the city. This preparation is more signifi-
cant when considered along with the current stress on civil
defense activity in the USSR and its Satellites.
4. Air Raid Defense Preparations in Budapest.
military installation at the corner of Budoise and Hegyaljai
streets in Budapest has been under construction since a year
ago. it would be
an air defense center. Radar installations were to be con-
structed here and an air raid warning center housed in the
building. Main installations were to be underground. The
area was closely guarded by military personnel.
ANALYST�S COMMINTI Increased indications
of civil defense and general air defense precautions have been
noticed in the USSR and its Satellites. If true, this is an
added factor in their possible parallel buildup.
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5. Para-Military Activity of Soviet Sports Societies.
CIA/OIR Watch Room The expressed intention to establish
Brief, #50 para-military units on all farms and
26 Sept 1951 machine tractor stations parallels a
similar effort during 1951 to broaden the
"Sports Program" in rural areas.
ANALYST'S COMMENTs Soviet officialdom
is stressing the support of the DOS societies (para-military
societies) by sports organizations, as well as the program of
GTO training (Get ready for defense and labor) within the
sports groups themselves. There are current indications that
"Kolkhoznik" (rural sports society) intends to supplement the
heretofore unsatisfactory work of DOSARM and DOSFLOT. Items
appearing in the Soviet press last December (1950) and January
(1951) indicated, (even then) that "Kolkhoznik", the new rural
sports society, was being rapidly organized throughout the
country, and "masses" of collective farmers were being brought
into the GTO program. The above data also refer to a recent
added impetus to a two-year effort which had reported some
success by 1950. As a result of earlier criticism, the
simultaneous reorganization of the sports and defense program
occurred, thus emphasizing the� para-military function which
athletic training and sports societies fulfill in the Soviet
Union. Since the foregoing information is based upon current
facts, it is probably true.
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