CURRENCY REFORM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010900270005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
April 1952.
Comment ? no currency reform is to be
eppec e a least until after the Moscow Economic Conference being held 3 - ll
Comment: i =,e pa Ithe State Printing Office is
wer .ng ee shifts per day printing bank notes. No new monetary series was
observed, however.
CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY
CLASSIFICATION.
Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT . Currency Reform
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
~N URITY INFORMATION
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DO NOT CIRCULATE
BY CABS
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 193
AND 79V.., OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
7 ,March 1952
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The currency reform in Czechoslovakia is now expected to take place on 31 March
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Employees of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Finance are
working nights on the currency reform.. This reform was allegedly not carried.
.out -at the beginning of 1952 because broadcasts by Radio Free Europe instigated
an unexpected buying,spree in the country.
FBI
CENTRAL I NTELL,,IreENCE AGENCY
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N. Chug. In class. 0
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Class. Chnre# 1.: TS
Auth.: HR 70-2
Dates .13- SEP 197
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