SHORTAGE OF MEAT IN BUCHAREST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005200100010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For L,y1:..` 457R "I 25X1A
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. ^
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Runania
SUBJECT Shortage of Ueat in Bucharest
DATE DISTR:12 JUL 50
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
25X1X REPORT NO.
L. Since Beater the supply of meat has been very short- The population of
Bucharest has rarely been able to purchase meat in the state etoresa although
restaurants are fairly well suppliedo On occasions, howeve r& meat has been
more available at the state atoresr, at the expense of the restaurants.
is apparent, mcreoyer9 that the Runomian Gower melt prefers to sell meat in
restaurants, Where it can get 300 - 400 lei per kilograms instead of the
state stores where the fixed price on ration tickets is 70 lei per kilogram*
2. On 22 April a eighteen freight carloads of cattle for Soviet troops in
Bucharest arrived at the Gera do Eat . The workers at the abattoirs, who
bad not themselves eaten meat for a log times, reused to unload the meat.
These workers were immediately placed under arrest and the freight cars
were unloaded by members of the Union of Working Youth (1Ftf),
3, On 24 April, a street car passed a herd of cattle in the city streets.
Passengers remarked that the cattle were going to the abattoir but tl}ay
themselyeS would never receive a gram of the meat. A civilians, apparently
a plainclothes policeetian or a Camonanista demanded that a worker who had
expressed these sentiments Should explain himself. The worker thereupon
seized this individual by the thra t shouting, "Look at nag See the state
in which I axing I haven?t eaten meat for three months". The other passengers
intervened to prevent the civilian from being thrcan from the car; he got
off at the next stop.
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
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Director of Central Intelligence to the
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