NEW USIA POLICY FOR AUSTRIAN ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001500020007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 27, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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UNTRY Austria/USSR
SUBJECT New DZIA Policy for Auotrim Lieetrical
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REPORT NO.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOP THE RESEARCH
USE OF TRAINED ;NTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS
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L. Ims.edittte Sale of All Si..::,):od,Ilao.trical rrt
Zrfective tnmediatel, all eloct,rfcal evipiront storeA in the Soyiet-,:cntro119d
Siemens plents is to he put on tht market for '4:hatewr lr-ice it "sill
This order also al'..plieu tc current produutitt. .Cu is to be turne1 over on the
25X1 Austrian market as rapidly 413 possible. ?he only l'.-.7ception to theee orders non-
cerns articles 's1 :t are renufaetured ,alusivel,y for 50viet 1.191!
25X1 Comment; Such as the c;erlorr,.tf.hr; ehuentl icuitr
encountered in sellin U3I.A-mnanfactured -,st Lr-, overcome by ant- Isslns
at hand. ,Reluctaaoe en the part of Auetrtar. exstomfr to buy goods fro USIA
will be obviated olacir4. ouch goods in the hands of bona fide Anstrian
To this end, all parsons present at the oeeting wer?. enjoihud to broe?fien their
relstionships with companies which miztt offer non-06IA-teirr-ed oreriets for
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had sockpil3 n vo-th or ':lc t' z;oole
in the USIA SiC2183,.S f..v7.eries, which it Was savihe eltar 'to export
the ucm a, ;.hat 1.71.,a%c Trmaty, o: tc tbo
market as a blov against t;u, Eliropear. Recovery r'rram, lbc-ull the Teo:Idon 004-
farence fail. Heretofore, when sales hare been ma.de, It Ihs been for prices
considerably in tn:certz of legal kustrian ceilinf! -But iespito tbe .ireztt nee
of .'Aistrian oonsumers for electrical ifte.res, these goods -eAve lot M070i on the
loez:1 m..rketlt, partly be4;a-ace of a silent boycott y buyers, but nvirusily
bec;41.1se of ,--rowinc; CR1'n 010";70,6ntl IL AU.Itrin,)
As further xeasuro ';c7 support this new policy, :Fla lucky airected
Comaent; 3a1e1J
personnel from the USTA-controlledi Ift-(ctories point out that a review of
in the face of. the Irregular an irrational
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production methods emoloyed 1,y VI?
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Raw Mu_terialltioo,
..t:..1.4irizas 7 stressed that e.,rerytht,g IA/sable, must ne done to ailerinte th.t;
roatustrophic" shortage or rz:mtii18, which, t4ince tte au5pesslo-.1nf-oppez.
deliveries frogs Yugos1av-1k%, trete tta the catire future electrical pzoduction..
He ci'!..ed severa1 excesplos of suers elan es, mentioning specifically that only
25X1 $5 kg of copper nes on 1,,,_rnd ir. thel Igetrc factory.
mentioned also that the Sovin--;,s 14-ere a-mire of a r:Icent ordinance issued by the
Austrian Wvenusents aocordit% to which no wre raw materials could be sold to
usa tmterprises, On the baais of this order, Slavinalry sa.t..d, Alpine-Montan
had reDased to deliver ??-,o USIA. rolling mills the in ingots neede. .47or the
produetim of sheet met413.: riie3D781,1 provided szrap metal in compensation.
Because this sheet metc:.1 i d??xioab1r n alect.rical mtniufacturet and de-
spite the fact that isemp is considered by USIA as vital war material
Il tl 1 thk 1 e Liaae.-4-
atrasse plant will be supplied tr, pne, bro :7, possible qvantitLes.
Schmidiauette Krems;,
Slavinsky stated incideatally that wolit has been halted on the Martin furnace
being built at the Schmidhuntte Krems. In this connection. he emphasized that,
on an order from Moaned, the So-iiets in Austria have discontinued all invest-
taents which concern installations not readily transportable. In the future,
only such construction and repair work will be uniertaken as pertains to
machino.s nnd equipment will ch 3A.r. be /loved fiz.irly
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