THE SOVROMTRACTOR MECHANICAL WORKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200440007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 31, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSI F I CAT I_.!
T,a S. OF'~ICIATIS OUL-,
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY Romania
SUBJECT The Sovromtractor ,echanical. ior? s
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DATE DISTR. 31 # arch 1952
NO. OF PAGES 3
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E794, CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
E U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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1. The Sovromtractor machine "works is located in Stalin but the headquarters is
in Bucharest, Calea Brazoranu F;. ''. The company was established on 29 Jovembor
1949 as a successor to Astra Vagoa},e by ministerial decree. At the time of
the nationalization, Asa Vagoene itself consisted of three independent
factories: The Astra Freight Car Factory at Arad, the Astra Freight Car
Factory at Orastie, and th Incustria Acriana Rcmana (I.A.R.) Aircraft Plant
at Stalin.
2. As a result of a special compromise agreement, the shares of the company were
owned by the r~:Rnc~ :~sl shareholder, an engineer named. Schapira. One of the
others was 11--,x who owned one-third of the Arad Antra shares, some
of -which were also held by Anglo-American banks. During the war, part of the
I.A.R. shares owned by Schaapira were taker over by the State in order to prevent
the Germans from gaining possession of the factory, as they had done with
the Resita and other Ausni:wor;,s. Owing to these manipulations, the I.A.R.
was not considered enemy property,- after the war but a state enterprise.
According to an agreement suggested by the Soviet-Rumanian Interim Commission,
Astra was liquidated following the general nationalization in 1948, and its
heavy industry plants were distributed between the USSR and Rumania. Although
I.A.R. was not enemy property it was separated from Astra and beceoie Sovrom
property in exchange for several small factories.
3. According to an announcement 4- the official gazette, Konitarul Oficial, of
29 November 1949, the former I.A,R was to be registered within 30 trays as
Sovromtractor and was at the sane time to submit its statutes. The company
was to be controlled by a hoard of directors, consisting of five Rumanian
and four Soviet ae: be;,-8, and the chairman F ,e boa-rd was to be elected
from among the five Rrzaan.i.:.ns. The G neral tanager, a Soviet, was not a member
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of the board arc ,at only err advisory vote. The Assistant Iv>ana er, with
similar competence as the Gt' n_--ra Uamager, was to be a Ihma;:nian. This
arrangement led .:c a oo !tdtit P_ cold war between the partners, as the Soviets
attempted it curry fashion to occupy all the responsible positions.
4. :then the LE it dart ... _t J th.. compan desiL-ud to register the company and
to publish ita co ~l~ titi,:,J.cn, i; ys rF ieals.lllt no for-ma 111strLli ent had
been dravrn up tri=g r the co ,'7 /' rr" y4,0 and that even the agreement of
the Interim Corr.micSion. according ;o p~11:. z ho orks were to become a Sovron::n,
was not available. Only an ".S L gr ed. note to e' e,. ('ould be four)d..
The author__ti_".s th::rf or'ee xu?used to t ~r Ye?:,1.stration, and t:-).e Legal
{??.~`3rti _;:[it of tho VT.. t ~.:;.,: ?..t 1 L . i.7 I `? L?.)ca, the .iJLini.",'Lru o
Finan ' wh insisted that he C:.;,, i r must be r~~ictored without delay and
w'.i.th.out any fcr no i ., ,
tl r.gual partner's in. a So 7l'.:41i;., ttj LYlanisn and the Soviet gov? rricaoilt each
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'at`tQ CGnd'vT`Z.t.)LiG~?' the c%~#:i~t