1. IAR FACTORY 2. SMT AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION 3. FINANCIAL DATE 4. AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500490012-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

IAA, .subsidiaries, Number,-, 22 and 23, in stain (Brasov) s arufe cture
aIricult aral trectore The cost of e,,.ch trt for it, 1,,570,J,)0O G.ei.,; The
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ECURITY INFORMATION
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cankers will have been org~ni.zed.
have ,been est ??blished. since l59 a7,, By 1955:, it is 110-Pe, . Zeat a 7,0 t4 w.
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factory alto manufactures linfrows at 2O kUC,0 ..ei earn and ~ i 4 Ong i~.c n P.
^t ,800,8,0 lei each, The Five Yeer ?I_an cells for 25,000 tr :ctcrs to be
manufactured by I1.R,e Inforvi,.nt st;;tes '. 1,At is has also been r:~a z ; sorrie rxa .,
li.tght aircraft used :'or sc uting during the recent months,.,
~,e3r ~,ursl coopZ'.-'t~_ve^:. rX .i-el
in CZ ~pynia today there exist 157 SM`~ j if:eu 4. or a;ricu., r h
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industries
Agricultural produce is exportedq a:bnost enciusively,,, to the oviet Union e
following pr-ices: wheat at four le f. per l .log*r? a; bark -and oats at 3.20
lei per 'd.lo gran and rye at five le per lci.1ogr,- c. Some of this produce is
allegedly resold to h~ . nnnia; at increased prcase
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peryerre The losses P r e offoet by t h e . profits mace in t h e i t t-:.L1u
needs of the area., and operates at a loss of bstveen lO f0~tX.),,000 to 2~i.,04)0 0 0 lea
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aeb S center 'metres between 300 and " ;0C) workers,, depending on the size and
0 and 0061 lei
5a In 19147 end. 19143, STIAT workers were pr-id salaries between 3,..00 1
per mantisr, In 1948,> seal .l_e:. were rat ed accordink; to the arnoa.nt of work
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turned out and aver aged 1.? ;000 to i 5,0000 led per month. ScYne workers earned as
much as 202000 lei per monthr vg~ -a .,
CLASSIFICATION - a Q 1DE1gT --.
Between 100 and 150 persorns from the pc s L, fz~i jueSl as .W: < cc AJ an 11:.
school p'riod0 The students are ? ivren 20,0 lei a Month '"spending Ta aney,r zrad
a11 expense are aid by the !',overrx:aent. The Five Yea.r? endin in 1955::
calls for the traixal..n, of 25,000 fr ~ctor operators
i?7ith the increase in the nuittbe,- of ;:;'#T centers, there ha,,, arzse a.a. acute
shortznne of bookkeepers.. ! .ar r di.ngly., in Bucharest, the tiini s'try of
griculture has established an sccounti ng school which graduates 120 booia,-
ers ever three months., While a ttondinf school., each student cairns 5,.F. 00
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CENTRAL IN` uILIGENCE LZICY
awasa Axi auva wr, or inspector, ea'axs "t et e n iU9OOO and 22,9OOO le-1.
month, Bookkeepers earn 108500.'16,500 lei per nonth"
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*ITs stationa hiring accounting per olle%nl pay pro(d].Y.6y14: an-lau.i for piopa c
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pays the higruest aaJ,arce3 in comparison to other r .nistries,.
The
,program calls for continued losses in operation: until the coun'~s es
agricultural land are completelry .tat-ownt d0 Profits are expected from
1955 orv&rdo -
official Goverrr; ?at policy calls for the fv3lest posrfibie
loitation of .}umaniaos agricultural potcnt-k.alo Accordingly,, the 1n.=i s y
of
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2t3. h s# rr of Agriculture Vasile V4ds and Minister of Finance Vasil.e Luca
.+-?...~..i V t7Y b ,i.ii v1 deci iA
Bucharest for eonaulta ti.on. the director of an 25X1 X
i center spend an average of 150.000 lei cer month for tr vA,i i i ri -
Uia Rumanian Government has not taken land away from
owners because of fear of revolt. Howe er, the tax rate is eo setric ly
Or re ai't in. order to coiipel large lc dowa erg to colleectivi: a their property?
An der of one hectare of land pays a ven kLlos of produce to t .e Government
and, an owner of two hectares pays twenty-two ki.1o3 of his produce to the
Govezni ento An individual owning 100 hectare turns over the entire production
(sic) o Ten percent of a farmerga produce is given to the Gc a;,r ant and -Avian
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percent to the S MT center for cultivation of his lsnd.. No money equivalent
is acceptable for taxes, only the pro(JA .ce itself. It is perm: ssible and in
some cases necessary fora 1andourer? t~ buy wheat on th : market to pay his
shard of taxes. In 19519 owners of 40 to 50 hectares had to do t i so
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120 SIT centers a~ffv organized along military lines. The
Government was considering placing wo.`yors under lita Jurisdiction. As
of April 1951 no action had been taken.
13. SNT centers have petroleum* fuel oil, C;asoli,ne and oil deposits in quantities
between six and fifteen carloads (one carload is equivalent to ten tons) for
use by tractors and other agricuJ tuna. machines:,
IDENTIAL
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