SHIPMENT OF BACTERIOLOGICAL TYPHOID STRAINS FROM POLAND TO EAST GERMANY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500160010-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18. Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
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East German/Poland
Shipment of Bacteriological Typhoid
Strains from Poland to East Germany
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
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REFERENCES
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Some months prior to"October 1953, Dr. K. Sorgenfrei of the East German Ministry
of-Health Central Serimi Institute in Berlin-Pankow, Wollankstrasse 16, ordered
a number of typhoid strains'from Poland. He needed these to'improve the typhoid
diagnosis in his institute. The order was made through diplomatic channels.
2. On 21 October 1953, a number of typhoid strains left Poland. They arrived at the
Ee.st`German"institute on 13 November. They came via DIA (the East German trading
organi "ation), the Central ' Office' for Research and Technology (ZAFT) and Frau
Caecilie Bode.1 At the same time, a list of the'strains which were shipped reached
the institute. This list is reproduced below,(Ainex 1)
3. The East German Ministry of Health believes that the strains must represent'endemic
epidemic strains of typhoid in Poland. It is noted that these strains cannot long
be maintained'artificially in a scientific institute but must be constantly renewed
from fresh material.
1 Comments Frau Caecilie Bode is well-known as the secret ?of the German-
Po~..is fission of Wissensohaftlich-Technische Zusammenarbeit (WTZ~, the scientific
and technical cooperation section of ZAFT.
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List of Typhoid Strains-
Satter clogieal: and Medical Research Division, State Health Agenccyy
(Dzial Bakteriologii i Medycyny Doswiadczalnej, Panstwowego Zakladh Higjeny)
Warsaw, Chocimska 24.
58
S. typhi "0" 901W
58
S. typhi "H" 901W
64
S. enteritidis
1891 (Jena)
65
S. dublin 215 (Kiel)
67
S. moscow 27
73
S
. Panama
62
S. typhi vi 1
6
S. paratyphi
B 5706
12
S. typhi-murium
3146
19
S. reading
15
S. stanley 7855
24
S. brandenburg
647
20
S. derby 31
23
S. budapest
104
S', california 5
5
16
S. heidelberg
33
S. paratyphi C
"Hirszfeld"
149
S. georgia
126
S. montevideo
48
S. amersfoort
47
S. oslo
90
S. aberdeen
138 S. Pretoria 810
87 S. senftenberg
78 S. anatum 293
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82 S. zanzibar 5628
97 S. kirkee
95 S. hvittingfoss
152 S. Sundsvall
347 S. florida
143 S. mississippi
1I Comment The significance of the number preceding each strain is not
known; it may be a catalogue number.
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