SOVIETS OFFER STEEL, CELLULOSE AND RADIUM FOR SALE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700410007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 28, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO,
COUNTRY Trieste/[1SSR/Austria
DATE DISTR, 5 j6ay2~' 4 2g
SUBJECT Soviets Offer Steel, Cellulose NO. OF PAGES 1
and Radium for Sale
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF IN
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NO. OF ENCLS.
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REPORT NO.
L Hans Frick contacted an import and export firm in Trieste on 28 April re- 25X1X6
garding the sale of 800 metric tons of cellulose and approximately 11,000
metric tons of steel, currently offered by Soviets (unidentified) in Vienna
through Karl Hirsch, an export-import firm located on Blisabethstrasse 8
in Vienna0
2, Frick also offered five grams of radium at a tentative price of from
460,000 to, 470,000 Swiss franca per green., The seller was identified as
"from the last" and closely associated with the Vienna Soviets, If a sale
was made delivery of the radium was to be by plane to Belgium or Switzer-
land only.
3? According to Frick, seven grams of radium were previously sold (purchasers
unidentified)0
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