MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AND INTER-GERMAN TRADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006200550008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 5, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CJ RAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY E?c1,St GE"Isl niy
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
Ministry for Foreign and Inter-
German Trade
5 April 1955
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This material contains information affecting the
National Defense of the United States within the
meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revel-
secs. of which in any manner to an unauthorized
person is prohibited by law.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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The following is a partial breakdown of the organizational structure
of the Ministry for !breign and Internal-German Trade (MAI): 25X1
1? The Main Department for Trade with Democratic Countries (USSR and
Satellites) is compr,sed as follows:
a. Department for the USSR
Chiefs Horst Bittner, SID member, plus six or seven other officials.
b. Department for Coanm inist China
Chief: Hermann Ac1lermOnn, SED member. This also includes a Referat
for North Korea.
c. Department for Czechoslovakia
Chiefs Fritz Degsau, SID member, plus three or four other officials.
d. Department i`or Hyngary
Chief: Frau Marge Haubrich, SED member, plus three other officials.
f. Department for Rumania
Chief: Frau Elfriede Wagner, SII7 member. Sachbearbeiterin for Export:
Miss Hildegard 1C ein, SED mftber. SAchbearbeiterin for T&O
eingeborg Kusaerow9 S$Y1 saber. Secretary: Fran Ingeborg Cohn s ntil
30 December 1954. hn, until
g. Department for Poland
Chief: (not filled at end of December 1954). This department has a
T/0 of four persons.
h. Department for Bulgaria and Albania
Chief: Hermann Kraemer, SED member. One person handles
imports to and from Bulgaria; one Person handles and i ndorms and
an
d from Albelnia ? and theme is one secretary. hexports and to
I. The its for Czmehoe3, la,
struc-
ture identical with that of the department for Rumania.
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Y'or.Internal-n Tea is Haub.;-
2. The Chief o9 the Main Department
teilungs]eitdr Erich Fx 9
rtment $r, Trade w1tb oUldr i~ F ?
3, The Chief Of, the Main Depa
Countrila is Hau abteilunsel 'Oer .Her wt Mayor-
,y
r was reduced from '1I r of Minister for Foreign and
Grow
4 ? Dort because of non- fLlf l]ntent Of.
SUto sec *etary C continues in his.
tnteVMA ` German Trade to
Trade planned for 195. However, Gregor
mini FD rarY head of the Ministry. There were,.
ministe ~sl fur~csLioru~ as ber
as to the possible identity of
' as of 30 1954, ~~
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