FOOD SITUATION IN THE EAST ZONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200060072-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: June 7, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

?~ aw. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/07: CIA-RDP81-01036R000200060072-8
DICildi -
U.S. Officials Only
SgCUT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
..$oranay .3oriet Zeno)
. rood Sittation In the Bast Zone
C O N T A I N S N I N NNA I A I N N NA AL N
OF TNI UNITED STATES. WITHIN TNINIANINS OF TITLE IS. SECTIONS 70
AND 704. OF THE U.S. CODE. At ANINDID. ITS TRANINIISI ON OR OIYI.
IATION OF ITS CONTINTS TO OR SICIIPT BY AN UNAUTNOII*ID P1100111 11
THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The fast ;esle of Germany grain crop at 1933 was one-fifth under normal,
1.
2. Grail alletasats to the nillins indutrr of the first darter of 1954 were sharply
united.
3. S6oe the bsginaing of February 1954 stain shipments from the' Soviet Vnion have
tae Sup sharply. (Pro September 1953 to Jan*arp 1954, about X0,000 tons; in
February 1954 abo $ " 85.000 tons.)
4. The potato crop of 1953 was also a qyarter below normal, and by larch 1954
syplies of potatoes'tnd f odider had reached the critical stage. .As a ros*lti the
planned increase in animals did not two plae?.
5? ]h 2'ebrNa7 1954 ?orsiga CoelAeroo Minister 6renr west to Moscow to seek additions j,'.
shipments of leddir stains, cleat and butter,
DATE D I STR . 77jNE ?.954
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCL'50X1-HUM
SUPP. TO
REPORT NO.
? 50X1-HUM
m
It not Tp be "- ,?T.p~
1Gl1~S
Tan. C1 M W[ 00 p'`" .Us OFF
..ADS pew c!>n PN'd~l'aa?n4
M- maws D'sl a~ diDa:IAES
raN:~ aOt'
bs~g~~izuions in lncellig'
"(:lA
,1Mi11M~ ve Sw '
hoa~'N~` mt7 b. used .o~ chaff Ems' 'All 0
it
fir.
ONLI" at %10
DISTRIBUTION Er STATE I IARMY
U.S. Officials Only
sacuT
? ; .LYE`; i. ..
NAVY AIR FBI
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/07: CIA-RDP81-01036R000200060072-8