Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
Document date: 11/8/61
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

4/15/201

Agency Information

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES:

FBI

124-10281-10170

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 100-422089-NR

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

FBI

DATE: 11/08/1961

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

CC, CUBA, ECONOMIC MATTERS, FOOD, SHORTAGES,

IMPORTS, ARMS DEBT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/15/1996

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CINAL

100-422089

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ATE INTORVATION CONTATNED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT

RUBME SHORN OTHERWISE.

November 8, 1961

(568510/602-726/98-584)

4.494

LATIN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

Classified or 05 RmB/xude

Declassity On: DADR/JFK,

Vicious Circle

SECREE

Information receivedtrom

two former Cuban Investigators, who have

recently arrived in the united states indicates that the economic situation in

cuba despite assistance from various Soviet-bloc nations-leaves much to be

desired. According to these two sources, increasing Government control over

the means of production and distribution has resulted in a shortage of food and

consumer goods, which in turn has brought on more controls and the vicious

circle of an even greater shortage of items available to the general public. The

reaction of the people, the sources say, is a combination a black-market buying,

acts of sapotage, and desperation flights to the United States.

Joana Rolando De La Cruz Castaneda Izquierdo, former

auban Revolutionary Police airte 10/.

Defense Committees Handle Rationing 26/61, re "Foreign Economic Matterba

According to the first of these sources, the Items which comprise the

basis of the Cuban dally diet are both scarce and rationed.

Part of the difficulty

in securing proper food in Cuba, the source reported, is its scarcity. The rest

is the lack of organization in its distribution. In an attempt to combat the food

Shortages, the Cuban Government has instituted a rationing system. The ration

cards are issued to the publie through the Committees of Defense of the Revolution

1961/

generally, were is one such committee St each block, and allierent cares are

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The poor organization in the distribution of food--causing shortages

In some markets and surpluses in others--has given rise to a situation popularly

known in Cuba as Venta por lahore. Thig means the sale of a product without

government gontrod, or the black marketsy lone of the answers of the Lastro

regime to both the shortages and the resulting black market, the source said, is

has allegedly caused growing discontent

among the people of Cuba.

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