TRADE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN EAST GERMANY AND RUMANIA OVER IMPORTS OF BORING EQUIPMENT IN 1953

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• Publication Date: March 18, 1954
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SEC' YN8 MMAtION
This Document contains informatidn affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United states, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, sections 793 and 794, of the U.B. code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorised person is prohibited
by law. Thb reproduction of this form is prohibited.
COUNTR+ East Germany/Rumanie, REPORT I.
SUBJECT Tra4 Negotiations between East Germany DATE DIJTR.
and. Rim nia over Imports of Boring Equipment "
in 1953 " NO. OP PAGES
DATE OF INFO. 125X1 A REQUIREMENT NO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
D
is TAreh 1954
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SOURCE:
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Karl Neuunn, head of the State Geological Commissto2f;,s:nd Andreas JCrauser
eoriig Inspector, made a trip to Rumania and concluded contracts amounting to
7,700~QCO. tmarks including 30,000 eastmarks far-"'the' travel to Rumania of
the except nce commission which was to be organized' and was sgbeduled to travel
to Rumania in October l93. The contracts were approved by Baring Inspector
Azi as Krauue Rumania, which bad been ready to ` d: liver 2 O0Qi-.to s of borehole
1ubi QTR 'c.tion that she,-be supplied. with the ne essary semi-finished material
from East aermgiy was w$l .ing to accept billets dt 4i t:5 35.29 standard which,
however, were .not available in East Germany, Then Wilhelm Salter, head of the
Depart nt For the Iran d Steel Processing zidulhtr Ref the Ministry for Metallurgy
and Ore Mining in East Bd lin,-and Z%ns K da, a leading member of this department,
stated thattregl rdless of quality and types it -would be difficult to supply 2,000
tons off' billetsyot grecon#mended negotiations with R'u nia on the possibility of
accepting rough rolled it gngots, which, according to Kuirda, tsould be delivered by
Stahlw rrk Brandenburg; Professor Kurcinak, "(Thu) of the' Rumanian trade Mission
in East' Berlin 'was requested to make appr lriate inq, ivies in Bucharest.l
Comment: Kurdral, who had been to Rumania With Minister Fritz. Selbmann
25X1 A about 4; year ago, expressed the belief that a modem rolling mill at Resita
could process ingots delivered by the Brandenburg works,
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