ECONOMIC INFORMATION: SOVIET SALE OF JAPANESE NEWSPRINT, SHANGHAI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300070006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 26, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
SUBJECT Economic Information: Soviet Sale of Japanese
Newsprint, Shanghai
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on 26 November a visit was made to a godown of the Ming Fu Corporation, Ltd.n
to inspect a stock of newsprint which 'was brought in on a recent trip of the
Soviet ship, S.'S. Smolny. The rolls of paper were being out into reams,
making the paper unidentifiable as to its source.
2. The original wrappings of the newsprint rolls contained commercial markings in
the Russian language and in additiLn to these the following Japanese term was
notedi - ~ This was taken to be a trademark translated as "blue print".
A man farm ier with both Chinese and Japanese identified this term as being
Japanese.
3. Some Shanghai paper dealers, after examining samples of this newsprint, believed
that it was of Japanese origin since it was too fine a quality to have been manu-
factured by a Soviet paper mill.
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