AGRICULTURE, PLANNING MANUAL, VOL. III, REVIEWED BY A/BR, M/D.

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T01049A000700070002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 4, 1952
• Content Type: MF

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susJsm Agriculture, damming mammal, Vol. III, isvisawd b A/Ar, K/D?
1. Os real: The gs rsl rs.stias of hal,tats In t Food mad
Agrioalt*W$r-saoh who have read srjeek repast is Wei it is ?Lr-
tooriab" and has some fastaal walcasssm? It is realised, rswrsr,
oabraver
that preparing a -aaiook of this mstave rsprsse*ts a as.
and requires original thimkiag said a detailed kasrledp of a rather
broad field.
Ths ooasnts and suggssticas offered by the Food and Agriculture
Branch are those of Agricultural tsslmddw and sot of specialists
on questions and procedures .smarming sabstap.
2. boor of Oomkontst Several eta meita in the Agricultural
section are o gnus om aooaraay and in other oases preosdwes, sug-
gssted are somewhat s nrealistio if not completely impracticable. Sass
examples are as follorst
a) On pars 1, it is stated that the Russian, people east on a
very low-calorts ration and that vidraproad starvation is fairly common.
Actually, on a calorie basis, diets in the USSR soupsrs tarorably 11th
Europe as a whole and are higher than awaragecalorie intakes in several
European, Asiatic, Africans, and lliddls last osMrise. Thera have been
only two periods in ro?st years (19'22 and 1932 ) whoa widespread star-
vation occurred, (The starvation that rspoetsdly osears is elan labor
camps is probably net des to a shortage of toed 1a the USSR ar a whole.)
Perhaps the statea- it is 4wtism ssmald be minted to iadisate that
discs am of poor goality OF *stsrm standards and that, ealastrttics is
fairly seisme
b) The last tares is smsss of the that-paragraph ? page 1
are sari sb we Is it sommu rd dedlalle to stases psopls who are
frisad .y to the W It is tm that imeYstsii areas $w food itaar
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