CONDITIONS IN USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006600390006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 27, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
this material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
tri, ,.S.C. Sees. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
USSR (Leningrad Oblast, Moscow Oblast REPORT
Krasnodarsk Kray, Georgian SSR )
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REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE
4.
27 May 1955
There was no evidence to the casual observer of any civil defense measures.
There was much evidence of troops moving about in Moscow and the drilling
of youths in plain clothes by army officers. Inquiries about civil defense`,'r,,A;
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no civil defense prepare ons anywhere.
looks of astonishment.
Photographs
selected views of the Kremlin could be taken Y
, and no photographs were allowed
of railroad stations, of the coastline from a boat on the Black Sea, or
from any aircraft.
ere appeared to be no objection to taking photographs in hospitals Onl
School Children
At a coeducational. school the children were in uniform; the boys wore .11 military kepis and sashes and the girls,smocks> The girls were apparently
put into uniform some yPtr ago, but the boys were directed to wear uniform
about June 1954.
There were not many advertisements to be seen in the USSR. The few to be
seen were phrases like "A book is the best present " and political slogans,,
LittLe flags with "Peace to all the world" were ubiquitous,.
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Pay of Workers
The basic pay of a worker is 800 rubles EL month,of which four to five
percent goes for rent and 20 percent far food. A foreman in a textile
factory t 900 rubles a month.
small car costs 10,000 rubles.
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