Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
245256715
label
Memorandum from Rear Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter to President Harry S. Truman
core
doc
dtoType
document
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
245256715
contentType
document
title
Memorandum from Rear Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter to President Harry S. Truman
citationUrl
collections
President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration)
Intelligence Files
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
imageCount
1
hasImages
yes
source
import
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
naId
245256715
levelOfDescription
item
productionDates
day
21
logicalDate
1948-07-21
month
7
year
1948
recordType
description
ocrSource
nara-archive
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
b78bc16bd6e75a57
ocrText
SECRET
ER 0417
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
21 July 1948
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
It is estimated that the USSR will have available from its current
crop about 7,600,000 metric tons of grain for stockpiling and export.
This is about 1,800,000 metric tons below the comparable figure for
1947.
The total Soviet grain acreage this year exceeds that of last
year by about 10 per cent, and the estimated 1948 grain production will
be about the same as that of 1947 (estimated at 76,000,000 metric tons).
The decrease in the quantity available for stockpiling and export
is attributable to increased domestic requirements for (a) human consump-
tion, (b) seed grain for planting the 1949 crop, (c) feed for livestock,
and (d) grain for industrial use.
In the satellite countries the grain situation is considerably more
favorable than last year, and probably will permit the diversion of some
Soviet grain exports from Eastern to Western Europe. The USSR can thus
maintain its exports to Western Europe without adversely affecting its
stockpiling at home ( shipments from the 1947 crop to non-satellite
countries as of April totaled 1.9 million metric tons). . The Soviet grain
situation probably will be further improved if Hungary, as has been
reported, pays its remaining reparations to the USSR in agricultural
products.
From the foregoing, it appears that the USSR is fully capable of
feeding the entire Berlin population from Soviet-controlled stocks if
it so desires.
i
R. H. HILLENKOETTER
DECLASSIFIED
Rear Agmiral, USN
Director of Central Intelligence
Authority
NLT- 76.15
By HC NLT Date 7-10-4-77