WASTE COLLECTING DIRECTORATE (DIRECTIUNEA COLECTARI SI ACHIZITIONARI - DCA)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001200670009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized. person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form IN prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Rumania
Waste:Colleicting Directorate (Directi--
unea Coleetari si Achizitionari - DCA)
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
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21 May 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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General
1. Directorate for Collection and`Acquieition'(Directiunea Colectari ei Achizition-
f
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Ministry o
ari - DCA) is the state waste-collecting organization under th
Light Industry. It collects scrap iron, non-ferrous scrap, textiles, paper,
glass, rubber, and other waste suitable for reprocessing, (bones,, wool, raw-
hide).
DCA was set up in 1948, at which time it assumed the functions of ORAP, the
rawhide collecting organization, and organized the collection of various types
of waste which had not been collected by the state to that date.
3. In 1951 DCA was reorganized, and' responsibility for collecting scrap iron
and non-ferrous scrap was transferred to a new organization, Intreprindere
Pentru Colectarea Metalelor (ICM - State Enterprise for the Collection of
Metals).
Bacau
The DCA regional office at Bacau is at Strada Mihai Viteazul No. S. It has
collect,ing stations and depots at Buhusi, Fiatra Neamt, Moinesti, Roman, and
Targul.Ocna. The Bacau regional office employs approximately 120 men.
5. The Ministry of Light Industry receives bimonthly reports on waste materials
from every factory in the region and issues instructions for collection.
DCA agents go to all villages in the region to collect, and they must call
for police aid at times to obtain the quantities called for because of the
low prices which DCA pays. For example, the official price for wool is 150
lei per kilogram, while the open market price is 1,000 lei or more.
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Materials collected are sent to these factories:
a. Metals to Resita
b. Wool and textiles to the Proletarul factory (Bacau), the Textila Buhusi
factory, and the Prahova factory (Ploesti)o
c. Glass to the Fabrica de Sticla (Ploesti)
d. Bones to the Fabrica de Produse Chimice (Narasesti)
e. Rubber to-the Cauroni factory (Campina). This is the only factory in
Rumania which produces tires, and even these are considered poor in quality.
Paper to the Letea mill (Bacau)
g, Rawhide to the Partisanul factory (Bacau), the Fabrics de Pielarie (Itcani),
and'the Tabacaria Romaneasca (Bucharest). These three factories receive
20 per cent of all rawhide collected in the region. The remaining 80 per
cent goes to the DCA central depot in Bucharest, reportedly for export.
7. Thefts occur regularly in the collecting process. Collectors of scrap metal,
for example, take valuable spare parts for machines often found in scrap, sell
them on the black market, and replace them with ordinary scrap worth approxi-
mately 700 lei per ton. Misappropriation of funds is common among collecting
agents. Rawhide has been lost so frequently that detailed reports for each
consignment are now made out in'the presence of the regional manager.
8. The regional office prepares a quarterly balance sheet for the central office,
and confusion in accounts generally leads to difficulties over excess profits, 25X1
which are prohibited by the government.
9.. Elvira Galeasca9 the assistant general manager
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