FOOD STOCKS FROM RUSSIAN ZONE DIRECTOR TO BERLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001800630002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CGI
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY' REPORT NO.
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AT REPORT
Germany (Russian Zone
SUBJECT Food Stocks from ssigr. Zone
Directed to Berlin
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DATE DISTR. 1 Septembo 194
NO. OF PACES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1L Reports from various quarters allege that food stocks intended for
distribution among the population of the Russian Zone9 have been
r iverted to Berlin ever since the Russian offer to feed. the poDula--
.;:: on of the western sectors of Berlin.. Orders for the shi.rinen, n
food are given, as a rule, by German government agencies on i.n. truc-.
Lions of the S w4 u
A large part of the flour shipped to Berlin came from Saxony--A: halt.
is alleged that numerous granaries and bakeries have been cleaned
out almost entirely and that many villages in the western part of
the Russian Z one, particularly around . Magdeburg,, have fi r'tuaa iy run
out of bread on account of this measure. The firm, BMct--l cid;. er?t,
:i iie 4 had to deliver to Berlin two t uo : ada of flour fro~T its
awn stocks, and bread grains were requisitioned from the Node firm
f-lle., Instances are also reported in vhic:h food-gyp cesairrg factor s
,3. :. :Saxony-A.nhalt had to shit their entire stocks of flour to Berlin
fen though their product was destined for the ConsuMe-~,s' Coopeear; t'? Evr,ss
According to a report from 5trrlsund,, almost the entire ';raring
'1r, sF es I. of grain of- that area was requisitioned for de J."livery, to
in. as we.I.l as ..eat stociso it as also been claimed tha a .,i;. .ln.c
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?s . r asc, week c.,f July, large qu.uantities of grain were
ian barges :t?`a. Stralsund harbor clr_d that they r-,.oeeee: ::c to
W sma;r to be shiuned from there to Ber .I r_ as "Russian wheat"'.
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