PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000100380008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. I have no knawled~e of ~.ny ph~rrnaceutical f's.ctories in the T73"Ft tibitlz the c~c--
ception of meager i n~orrna.tion on one in Sverdlovsk.. Th~.s it etury is loo.=t ~aed
in the e3.ty sarnesahere south of the Gorodskoy Prud. T.n. lr?~~.u rs.nd 1~%I.~ this fc.c-
tory, which I think :is a~ postwar construction, was seeki n~ to esn~,~loy phs,r..ci~~~ts
but w~.5 nat in full o;~er~.tion. T think tb.e plant was prorliar,~~n~? ~:~enic:illin axed
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probably sulfa, drugs but I have ?the impression that the work done there at that
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~, Wtiia,le in rverdJ_avsk the stores in the city had a fair supply of m~ aerials
50X1 said .,_nstruments available but very little variety. Government installations such as poly-
clinics ~tnd hospitals had a sufficient supply of good duality materials arid. instruments;
these goods t~rere obtained from the City or Oblast Pharmaceutical Adrn~nistratian. Gener-
50X1 ally speaking, I think th~it this situa.-tion prevailed, and probably still prevails, th~?ol~.gh-
aut the USSR, ie, average quality a.nd lim~_ted variety an the open m~~.rket and a.rnple and
good duality products available to government installations.
dontists and dental technicians vr.o a recen y een gyn. ~-
ov~e ~ nzon ,a en a ma eriols and equipment were become ng ~_ncreasa_ngly mare diffic~_~7_t
50X1 to procure on the open market in. tho USSR. The items particularly in short supply were all
-types of metal instruments a.nd casings (gi.l'za). However, I think that tY.~ese items are 50X1
50X1 still procurable from government warehouses but only by government installations.
after 01951 gold was not to be used in der-car
pros-~~.. e sc war e Zc nes l ..e penicil~l_in gargle are ava~.lable an?..y to hover. rimexit installa-
50X1 tuns and are obtainable only from governrr_ent warehouses.
polident and polapont and some inferior Soviet plastic which dated back to 19~,? or 1918.
German and Soviet sta~i7.ess steel and orcelain were =~1so used.. As a rule rr~ostly German
50X1 materials were used but in the middle of 1951 more Soviet products
50X1 began to appear increas~ng~y~nore Soviet pra-
duc-ts would be employed in dente.l work by the Sovie~is~in the Eastern Zone of Germany.
3. Practically all government installations obtain -their supplies from the City- or Oblast
Pharmaceutical Administration; in the case of polyclinics in rural areas supplies are pro-
cured from the local city health units, The latter usually are not well-stocked a.nd the
rural polyclinic is compelled to buy an the o,~ien markets order from the Oblast Pharma-
ceutical Administration, or order directly from Moscow. However, materials ordered from
Moscow by installations other than government warehouses are usua7.ly of a. very poor t~ti~ality?
The various government warehouses order their supplies directly from Maseow.
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