PRODUCTION OF MEDICINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000240003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INItILIG.ENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
Production of Medicines
This is UNEVALUATED Information
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 30 April 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
to The .shalt Seruminstitut at Dessau (ASID), now a peopleQ's enterprise, needs
large quantities of horse blood for the production of .serum, -'The factory
notified thegoveriient that it would require the means of purchasing ten
horses. The request vanished somewhere into the official. filesa.' After a
Long while the institute repeated its request and a few days later received
notice that three tractors would be?made available to it,
2, At the Heyden'chemical factory in Dresden,a very modern installation for the
production, of 'barbiturates has been installed. A production of 15 tons a
year is counted on, 'which would mean a considerable export.
3,e At the Sphering firm in East Berlin, the chemist ID_ .. Xrauss (f nu) developed.
the theory' that in the foreheads of animals which underwent winter ' hibernation,
there might be found a material that would produce sleep in hu)nanso- He produced.
an---extract from the foreheads of bats that pt?aduoed sleep with very good results,
Although only six experiments, have been made, Dr. Krauss is already viewed as an
outstanding scientist and hopes to win the national prize for having finally pro-
duced an organic opiate.
4. In the East Zone a considerable quaixtity'of the inesthet o'Evipan is imported
from Budapest. The packages sometimes hold traces of the original packing with
the Bayer cross visible.
5. After several patients under Evipan died on the operating table, a'coimnission
was named to investigate. It found that,while the cause of death could be
Evipan, there were six other possible factors.
STATE X ARMY
NAVY X IAIR
IFBI AEC
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6. The East Zone is planning to produce a drug for the arresting of tuberculosis
on abasis of isonicotinic acid and hydrazine, somewhat similar to Neoteven,
Rimizon or Ertuban. The production of a new medicament is dependent upon
obtaining the . permiss .on of a commission of pharmacists, who are f i ly responsible
for the results.
7.
There is no medical preparation for hostilities. For example, the stocks of
morphine and, other opiates on hand throughout the Fast Zone are only sufficient
for current needs. The same is true of serums, which are often so short in
supply that some search is necessary.
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