ACTIVITIES OF COMMUNIST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD WHEAT MARKET DURING SEPTEMBER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000400140013-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 13, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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13 OCT 'i66
s The 8 reble Dean l te-k
9w l retar'y of State
Activities of Casist ntriea in
t Wrld Wheat Mrkat Awing
dept ether
-ve attached mw latest ra3.ysis of Cost
purls in the vorld mat a rket. Our r cogs
meters Lirope n Cas iat cowtries, as veil ea
l et t and. Gaegsimf et t aa.
fe% Richard Helms
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Attest.
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i 2. OCT
R. J. SMITH
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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or sc ant less V= half of t it estimsted
ir n of the (ist countries contracted
the iet awatries for the delivery of wheat
red over the ion year b ei# ' AAly 1966
lion tone, but a ld tioaa. phases a Est
15 million toss (see Treble).
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first an c trine haw p chased nearly 2 million
t3w Free Wcw3A for delivery dmtring the period
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;we been psrtioutarly f e ruble, reportedly
a total of at least 3W,0000 tow of *eat on the
since , but Xww sales total only about 200,000
ibrit coemttries.
i of mat to Est Mina for
1 1 ranta at 3.3 million tone,
Inputs of about 6 million tow in recent
sv of its t, rather mafevere bee crop prospects,
to 119KWt OVML 3Ar'r tities of grain tbsri I.T.
on. NJ" there have bees an ftere" r of
fhad ahcrt risi ces, even in urban are".
marts 3 reflect a 3naettoa of (1) a poor early
wheat imports dwrIn recent t . rxworao-te
!' ets In Oonsda, Aw tre31s end retina,
sherd permit at adua to increase the level of
imports vbeat ften these eo=trjes d eying the first hal ff of
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