COMLEMN, TIMISOARA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100370007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIG.EN.CE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-.
Ing of Title 18, Sections 703 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its conten)s
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Ss prohibited.
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COUNTRY Rumania
Comlemn, Timisoara
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 3 May 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS. TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Comlemn,, Timisoara, plans'the distribution for the entire Timisoara district
of the following:goods*. cement, tarred paper, building timber, hardwood,
plywood, furniture, veneers for the manufacture of furniture, roof shingles,
and bricks. Since Comlemn makes furniture, it is reluctant to supply materials
to other furniture factories.
2. Supplies usually fall considerably short of the planned allocation. An
enterprise, for instan i, which has been allocated 7,000 cubic meters of
timber annually according to plan, is likely to receive 2,000 to 3,000
cubic meters.
Prices often exceed those provided for in the Plan. When timber is transported
before it is properly dry, only about 12 cubic meters instead of 30 to 36
cubic meters can be loaded on a 15 ton railroad car. This trebles transport
charges.
Transport is calculated for a maximum distance of 350 kilometers. However,
transport costs are increased at times, because timber is brought from a
distance of 600 to 700 kilometers, and cost is accordingly increased.
5. In 1950 the town of Timisoara alone used 30,,000 to 1.1.0,000 cubic meters of
timber annually; consumption has now dropped to 2,000 to 3,000 cubic meters
for the whole district.
6. Comlemn at Timisoara has 27 timber and building materials depots which also
serve as selling points. These include:
a.. Four depots at Timisoara
b. Two depots at Lugoj
c. One depot each at Oravita, Deta, Peciul Nou, San Nicolaul Mare, Periam,Biled,
25 YEAR
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v nga, J1m13olia, Caransebes, Orsova, Resita, Anina, Buzias, and Gataia.
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These depots usually hive little saleable. material, because timber is usually
allocated-in advance to state organizations and collective farms. A small
fraction goes to private purchasers; however, customers wanting a sack of
cement or-even half a cubic-meter of timber must wait months for an allocation,,
To prevent depots..from being completely empty, a small stock of inferior good4,
such as black boards,waste, and poor quality roofing tiles, is maintained..
80. Depot No. 68 at Circimivalatiune,Timisoara is supplied with 1.o,0O0 tons of
fuel wood per year for Soviet barracks and kitchens at ,Arad, Caransebes,
Orsova, and Baffle Herculane.
9. Comlemn supplies. building materials to state farms, including; Recas,,, Biled,
Ketfel, Sanhicolaul Mare, and Teremia Mare. Each of these farms owns
500 to 1,500 hectares of land. They are managed by two or three experts and
10 to 15'employees. Machinery is loaned by an S.M.T. (Machinery and Tractor
Station).
10. In 1951 a million,; bricks were sent by the Bohn factory at Jimbolia.to a
Rumanian. military unit in the Arad district in answer to an urgent order.
11. Soviet officers and enlisted men occasionally obtain a few pieces of plywood
for sale to civilians.
12. Peasants who are seasonably employed in cutting; make up a large proportion
of the working `labor force'.: 'The former private owners of the woods paid them
partly in-kind; bacon, cons>.mea19 ' boots,, clothing, et cetera. The state
now pays A small fraction in kinds but the peasants are not inclined to work
because the cash *ages received are so far from being equivalent to the
former real wages.
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