SALE OF CRAB MEAT IN EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002200270025-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: September 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affectipg the Na-
tional Defense of the United States. within, the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 791, of the U4 Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form I. prohibited.
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COUNTRY East Germany
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SUBJECT Sale of Crab ikat in East Germany
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DATE DISTR.
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REFERENCES
17 September 1953
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East Germar bought 8,500,000 tins of a .meat; from Russia. ipprox1mately
3$000,000_of these have been sold. The population has however, stopped
buying these tins.,since the taste of the preservative j(Yexametbylen -tetramine
is ' so? st:tvoigg that the moat is inedible. An attempt is being made to unload
3'9000,000- tins on'the German public''by making purchasbrs Of to - nnb.ise or
gelatins bur ii-tin ofprab'meA with the suggestion that the taste of the
preservative in the meat can be overcome by using the mayonnaise or ge-
latine along with the crab- meat.' A tin of the crab' meat costs about 3.15
eastma.rk:s. An additional 2,500'000 tins :are tp be: re,-.b .vrted.
SECRET
STATE I r I ARMY I NAVY
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