TRAFFIC IN MEDICINES AND FOREIGN CURRENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001200190007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL Of CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Traffic in Medicines
the easiest and least dangerous form of black market
in Rumania is in drugs and medicaments, many of which are in extremely short
supply.
Name of Drug
Streptom rcine
Black Market Price (November 1952)
30 lei per granme (price has recently' dropped owing
to increased state imports).
Sandoz Calcium (Swiss) Not Known
Rimifon (Swiss) 500 lei per 100 .tablets (Official price in Switzerland
is 6 francs for 100 tablets).
Penicillin Ole 150 lei per 3 million units.
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7 yjw 1953
Traffic in Medicines and
Foreign Currency
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R i fon is the most sought-after of the above-men timed drugs.
SmaI1quantities of these drugs are sometimes sent in private parcels
from friends -or relatives mod. Until two or three years ago this was
forbidde, but, owing to the shortages in Runania, such small-scale
gifts are aov permitted.
Traffic in Foreign. Carrencys
Foreign currency In the form of dollar and sterlis notes can also be
bought and sold on the black war s is, Dever, 25X1
most dangerous. and the penalties are severe.
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