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· TITLE : EXTRACT FROM PAPER SENT GEN. LANSDALE 29 AUGUST '62
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08/29/1962
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Extract from paper sent Gen. Lansdale 29 August 62
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SG Buefed
30 Aug
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2. Through clandestine agent sources, we learned recently
that a Western European merchant ship en route from Havana, Cuba,
to Odessa, USSR, would be forced to dock at a Caribbean port and
off-load temporarily part of its cargo in order to repair minor hull
damage which resulted from an accidental grounding. It was ascer-
tained that this vessel carried as cargo 80, 000 two-hundred pound
bags of Cuban raw sugar shipped to Odessa, USSR, for refining in
the Soviet Union. In order to lighten the ship sufficiently to permit
repairs, it was necessary to off-load and temporarily warehouse
14,000 of the two-hundred pound bags of sugar.
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3. Through a clandestine operation which was not detected
and is not traceable, we were able to contaminate 800 of these bags
of sugar with a chemical used in the process of denaturing alcohol
while the bags were in the warehouse and before they were reloaded.
on the vessel.
4. When this cargo of sugar is refined in the Soviet Union
the contaminated bags will completely contaminate the entire ship
ment making the sugar unfit for human or animal consumption in
any form. The contaminate we used will give the sugar an ineradicable,
sickly bitter taste which no process will remove. The contaminate
cannot be detected in the refining and although the contaminate is not
in any sense dangerous to health, it is so strong to the taste that it
ruins the taste of the consumer for any food or drink for a considerable
time,
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5. This successful contamination will spoil the entire cargo
the value of which to the USSR is estimated at $350,000 to $400,000.
Additional Information
For your further information in connection with this operation,
it was completed on 24 August 1962 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The
: vessel involved was the British merchant ship STREATHAM HILL.
The operation was successfully conducted, without compromise and
none of the personnel connected with the vessel are aware of the
operation.
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