RINDERPEST IN EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005800320011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2008
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 18, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany/Satellites
SUBJECT Rinderpest in East Germany
Tbig material contains Information of sctins the Na-
tiooai Defenes of the United Bata within the mean-
laS of the irptcosie Laws. This It. U.S.C. Seas. 750
sad IN, the teanuniselon or revelation of which in
uW meaner to an unauthorised person is prohibited
by law.
REPORTI
DATE DISTR. lg January 1955
NO. OF PAGES 1 25X1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN IM RMOIT ARE DEFINITI
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT If MITATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE SS?VINSII)
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1. The symptoms of diseased cattle in Eal+t fArmany as reported by two East German
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confirm the belief that the cattle 25X1
Id-L>easelreported in East Germany is rinderpest. The areas affected are reported
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infectious gastroenteritis.
2. Manninger of Budapest, and Angelcv of Sofia are in the area. They and Dobberstein
of East Berlin 1 agree that the entity is a virus disease but '_s not rinderpest.
3. officially 25X1
the disease has not been recognized as r n erpes P because or e consequent
political implications of the necessity of restricting East-West traffic,if the
disease were officially declared to be rinderpest.
Comments The Berlin telephone directory for 1953 lists a Dr. Helmuth
Dobberstein, GP, Manetstrasse 76, East Berlin.
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