STATE RESERVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700100008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2005/08/24: CIA-RDP80-0081OA001700100008-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
25X1
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT State Reserve
25X1 DATE OF INFO.
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 is prohibited.
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO.
REFERENCES
21 Jbly 1953
25X1
25X1
25X1
25X1
25X1
1. The State Reserve consisted of4'stocked materials which the goverment was
keeping in reserve for the use of Czechoslovak industry as a who E The
State, swerve was subordinate to the Administration of State Material Stick
Reserves (Sprava statnioh hmotnyoh reserv), located in Prague Xg Na,
lnvalidov e. This organization was in turn subordinate to the State
Planing Office. (^Statni urad planovaci ), and the chief of this organization
wags the y eputy. to the I .nieter, Chief of .the State Planning, Office, ' As of
Maroh 191,3, (fnu) NEMECEK was this deputy minister. The State Reserve was
created in 1949:,.. At that time the State bought raw materials, semi-finished
produote,' and finished products stocked in individual ,plants erid placed these
stooks' under the Administration of State Material Stock Reserves. tor the
most pert, these materials remained in the individual plants, but i> some
cares new epecidi warehouses were built where these materials we storad.
Th?re were only a small number of these central warehouses built 25X1
The individual plants were
permitted to draw materials rom the -at. serve only on a uthi izaation
from the Administration of State Material Stock Reserves. 'his authorization
was giVen.in special, oases. Generally speaking, a plant cold ask or
authorization to draw from the State Reserve when a delivery'for effort or
for an important military order had to be fulfilled and the materi
needed was not available elsewhere.
The procedure for obtaining authorization
was as r o owes a pan led out a form stating all details
about the order and about the material needed from the State
STATE I#X, ARMY #x INAVY
#X AIR I #X F81 -:I
25X1
AEC. _...._1 .
25X1
Approved For Release 2005/08/24: CIA-RDP80-0081OA001700100008-4
 25X1
Approved For RelegLt08/24: CIA-RDP80-00810A0017 0100008-4
25X1
25X1'
25X1
.1 1
25X1
25X1
2.
conductive ma erla,s,
bearings, and too is rrom e a e stocks were assigned
many times to this plant. Some of the bearings came from State
Reserve stocks which were located at the MEZ Zidenice plant;'the
conductive materials and tools were from State Reserve stocks located
in other plants, (Fnu) LISKA was. the chief official for bearings in
the Administration of State Material Stock Reserves. His office was
in Prague, Vaclavske namesti '52;: second floor. The central distri-
bution office for bearings was also located in that building. The
value of the bearings stored in the State Reserve amounted to some
few hundred million Czechoslovak crowns. about 06,000.-000
crowns worth of enamel copper wire 2.1 mm. n ame er, was also
stored,in the State Reserve.
With time it,became a practice for a plant where stocks of State
Reserve were located to exchange material of poor quality obtained
through normal channels for material of good quality from the State
Reserve stock at the plant. This procedure was kept secret and was
carried out by,collusion between a few officials conce.rned,,'such as
the stock-keeper and purchaser. of all'the bearings
stocked in State Reserve only some , were or good quality. The
remaining TO% were scrap bearings and bearings of po?r quality which
had been stocked illegally in exchange for the original bearings.
25X1
:Reserve. This form was signed by the general manager of the plant
then_P rented for approval to the chief of the main administration
of +s teinistry to which the plant was subordinate. If the chief
of: the mein administration approved the request, he signed and
stamped it and sent it to the Administration of State Material Stock
Reserves. The chief of this administration decided whether and to
what degree the request should be granted. After the request was
approved, it was turned over to the official of the Administration
of State Material Stock Reserves who was assigned to handle the
material in question, and he then ordered the appropriate warehouse
to deliver the material to the plant. The plant was obliged to
procure, as soon as possible, through normal channels, the same type,
quantity, and quality of material and to send it to the State Reserve.
Approved For Release 2005/08/24: CIA-RDP80-0081OA001700100008-4