Field notes, v1409
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Journal 19 March 1962 Dacca, Pakistan but apparently planning to start, said Manhattan Labs. Corp. of N.Y. had offered to be agent. No customers yet, or credit references (etc. bank). In those days about 30'x60' box 20+ sea monkey shipping crates. | Visited CIA office. They appear to know about monkey shipments. In May will have jet flights Dacca to N.Y. without transshipment, arriving in about 2-3 hours. In some jets (Boeing 720?) can ship up to 40 crates monkeys in passenger planes, so small shipments no problem. (At least I'd heard that low rate freight Dacca to London been so slow as not return empty). | Again visited monkey farm. Two sheds, bamboo pole construction, about 20'x60'. One had 24 ocean shipping crates, & 70+ adult males (an order for 100 ad. $70?). Not nourished, but lean & looks dull (no oil in diet). Some had severe cuts. Among sick, some stump-tailed macaques. One adult on ground outside cages, dying. Roofs of bamboo matting, except for one, now of sheet metal. Area shipping cage 2'x3'x6' approx., with wire in fronts only. | I took evening plane to Calcutta. 20 March 1962. Took 0630 plane for Delhi, arriving about 10 a.m. It appeared that every available acre under cultivation on whole flight, & no slow growth in crops or greeneress (faint). Small sized plots all; no tractor farming apparent. | At zoo farm they were holding about 75 from Jupta at Tarakpur. In addition Mr. Jagdish had been to an area in Punjab, about 100 mi. from Delhi, & reports good trapping there, & had