REDUCTION OF FOOD RATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400210001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 6, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO,
COUNTRY Czech aslovakia
SUBJECT Reduction of Food Rations
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION APPECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OP TITLE 1$. SECTIONS 790
AND 794. OP THE U. S. CODE. AS.AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
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DATE DISTR. 6 Feb. 1952
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1. The Czech.people are confused and worried by the announcement that food
rations in Czechoslovakia are being reduced, especially in view of the news
that the Hungarian government has recently eased food controls. The Czecho-
slovak press failed to mention the significant coincidence between the food
crisis and the trip. to Moscow of Minister of Foreign Trade Antonin. Gregor,
but explained only that fnei consumption and deliver4ss must be controlled
in order to assure acontinuous food supply.
2. Small farmers have been most affected by the'ration cuts, which amount to
about 30 percent. Members of collective farm organizations who use the
facilities of the collective but also farm for their own consumption are now
considered self-supporting and no longer are issued ration cards. In Samorin
(P19/Y16) and certain other areas of Slovakia about 90 percent of the farmers
in the collectives fail into this category. There are an estimated 10,000
farmers in Slovakia who have no ration cards.
Rations have also been reduced for members of foreign missions, whose special
ration cards have been abolished. Czechoslovak employees of foreign missions
no longer receive cheap meal priveleges (Plerkskueche) and now have a lower
standard of living than the average Czechoslovak worker.
The monthly wages of the average farm worker amounts to about 5,000 kcs
plus payment in kind and cheap meal priveleges which bring the total monthly
pay to about 7,000Ics. Real income in Czechoslovakia has dropped to about
60 percent ofthe 1937 level.
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