SOVIET FILMS EXHIBITED IN RANGOON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014700130012-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
COUNTRY Burma/USSR
SUBJECT Soviet Films Exhibited in Rangoon.
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DATE DISTR. 7 November 1952
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
2 5 LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM 15 PROHIBITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. The King Theater in Rangoon, which is currently exhibiting Russian. and
Chinese Communist films, is owned by the Sooratee Bara Bazaar Company of
Rangoon. Two years ago, this Company leased the King Theater to Banasari
Lall for a. period of'twenty years. The terms of the agreement involved
the down payment of one lakh of keyatd,,s,- d; koyats ' 3,000 `per month
2. Lall sublet for an unspecified time to U BA .T`.BATJNG., an ex-convict formerly
serving a life sentence for murder. BA TRAUN and the.Soviet Embassy in
Rangoon pay Lall a combined total of kyats 2,750 per week, the major portion
of which is borne by the Soviet Embassy.2
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1. ~ Cou ent. A lakh is equal. to 100,000. At the current rate
of exchange, one kyat is equal to US $0.21.
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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I [Comment. I the Soviet Embassy
had rented the King Theater for rupees 12,UUU (a-t the time, a rupee was worn
about $0.25) as of 1 June 1952 and had agreed to share 50 percent of the
advertising charges bought under the name of the Eastern Film Company.
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Approved For Release 2004/04/15 : CIA-RDP82-00457RO14700130012-6