SOVIET BW AND PENICILLIN PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005100230010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 11, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET -
COUNTRY USSR
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws. Title 18. U.S.C. Sep. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 11 October 1954
NO. OF PAGES 3 25X1
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Kuybyshev Institute
1. In 1914.7 the Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene (NIIEG)'
of the Soviet Army was usually referred'to-as the "Kuybyshev Institute". It
was common knowledge among Soviet scientists that the institute was located
in Kuybyshev.1 Although source never saw the institute. he recalled having
seen its name and location in journals several times. At a meeting of the
Academ of Sciences in 1947, Col. Nikolay Nikola evi h Ginsbur
was still works at NIIEG in K b shev.
Biological Warfare
2. Ginsburg and his associates intimated that their work had an application
other than the production of anthrax and tularema vaccines. Ginsburf-hntedd
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that this secondary application had military implications.
Ginsburg might have meant the development of defensive BW measures,
but the only difference between offensive and defensive
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BW would be the application of Ginsburg's techniques to the production
of virulent na,thogens for ise as agents or the production of attenuated
strains for vaccines and/or inactivation of the vathogenic strains for
production of vaccines.
3. In source's opinion the organizations administration, and purpose of the
Soviet BY program might be as follows:3
a. The First Chief Directorate of the:Council of Ministers would head the
over-all program and would operate through each "Secret Section" of
the Health, Agriculture, and Desnse ministries.
b. The First Chief Directorate would have a small staff of full-time
research administrators and planners with a large group of consultants
from various ministries and institutes.
c. Existing microbiological institutes would be used for segments of BY
development.
d. No large-scale BY development project would be in progress in the USSR .
e. BY would be used as a means of sabotage rather than as a large-scale
strategic operation.
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