SOVIET CONTROL OF INDUSTRIES IN POLAND, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, AND EAST GERMANY

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2005
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• Publication Date: June 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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The Soviet Advisory Office for Production and Trade (Radziecki Urzad
Doradczy Produkcyjno Handlowy) is located at Wroclaw (Breslau). This
office employs at least 500 advisers who control rel
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production in Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. This production
is intended primarily for shipment to China. In Poland, the industry
,Whi.ch,eahbraces the production of artificial fibers, cellulose viscose,
bleached viscose, artificial silk, etc. was taken under special control
by these advisers early in 1953, probably in February. The control was
established because of the fact that the Polish factories had rejected
the delivery terms on these products; the Soviet Advisory Office
considered this refusal an act of organized sabotage. 'F n .-dh1ng ,of some of
the Polish cellulose products is completed by a echae bvakian and -Eas'trGerman
firms, and these firms maintain that, because of undue delays on deliveries
from Poland, they are unable to meet the delivery terms on these items so
vital to the Korean front.
2. Joint production of cellulose has frequently been the subject of discussions
in Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany, and this joint enterprise has been
checked on ministerial levels as well. The industry has functioned more or
less satisfactorily, although recent German complaints about delays in receipt
of Polish deliveries have resulted in the widespread control of the Polish
industry referred to above.
3. Polish factories located at the following places have synchronized production
with related factories in East Germany:
a. Factory for bleached viscose at Bochnia, east of Krakow.
b. Two factories engaged in the production of artificial silk; one is located
at Turek, east of Poznan, and the other at Zydowce in Silesia.1
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Poland/East Germany/Czechoslovakia
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Soviet Control of Industries in Poland, DATE DISTR.
Czechoslovakia, and East Germany
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C. Two factories producing bleached and cellulose viscose located
at Jelenia Gora (ffitschberg), and at Kostryzn (Kuestrin),
d. A rubber factory at Debice, near Bochnia.
e.. A factory-engaged in the production of carbon electrodes located at
Kuznia Raciborska (Ratibor]ismmer - P 51/Y 06).
East German factories which will work jointly with the Polish factories
listed above are reportedly located at Zwickau, Finsterwalde. St
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Ilsenburg, Harmsdorf (sic), and Berlin-Koenenick_
The German complaints regarding the Polish deliveries,.in6ludbcharges
that the Poles never kept any of the delivery terms, that the delivered
products were of such poor quality as to render their finishing in the
German factories impossible and, moreover,, that the finished products were
defective and unusable.
5. Soviet control of the Polish factories is a source of dissatisfaction to the
,Polish factory directors, and Soviet control hampers and further delays the
Polish deliveries. The Polish directors maintain that the Soviet controllers
have no jurisdiction within the factories and that the controllers are only
entitled to make criticisms and suggestions in writing to their superiors in
the Soviet Advisory Office in Wroclaw,, Nevertheless,, the Soviet controllers
invariably attempt to exercise their authority in the factories and this
results in conflicts with the Polish directors. The end: result is that the
Poles are arrested since they are powerless in dealing with the Soviets,
In retaliation,rthe factor-y,workers resort to passive opposition resulting
in faulty production and delayed deliveries. The Polish factory workers
recognize the fact that their best efforts to produce ideal products will not
improve their own situation nor that of Poland as a whole; they are also
mindful of the fact that Poland is compelled tofeed'Eabt Germany and to ship
material to the Soviet Union at ridiculously low prices. The Poles are
against supporting the Korean War and will do everything possible to hinder
the war in Korea.
Comment: The only Zydowce which could be located in
available reference books was Zydowce (Sydowsaue - 0 511./Q 54)
near Szczecin (Stettin).
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