PRAHOVA COOPERATIVE UNION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015100210003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Prahova Cooperative Union
DATE OF
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DATE DISTR. 24 November 1952
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REPORT NO.
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THIS DOCIMENT CONTAINS. INFORMATION AFFECTING IRE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 19)
AND IBM, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED IT LAy. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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I. The Prahova Cooperative Union (Uniunea Cooperativelor Prahova) is the supply
center for all cooperatives in the Prahova district and the town of Ploesti.
It is the district organization of the General Cooperative Union. Offices
and stores are located at 84, Bulevardul Ferdinand (former name), Ploesti.
The stores stock approximately 2,000 tons of various goods, including textiles,
furniture, iron and glassware, domestic appliances and coke.
2. There are 240 branches of the Union in the Prahova district. Even the
smallest villages have their cooperative store. The Union employs 180 persons
in Ploesti and approximately 480 in the Prahova district. For the first nine
months of 1951 the Union in the Prahova district had a turnover of 130 million
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SOthes? plows, plowshares, chemical 'fertilizers, glass shiimmiya: for kerosene
lamps, paper $ ink, pencils, matches and lamp oil are always in short supply.
One liter of lamp oil is issued per month to each family. Cloth and linen,
earmarked for the peasants, is sold on the black market by the local c?
operative managers,
14. The peasants are dissatisfied with the low priceswhich they receive for their
products from the cooperative. For instance, they are paid 1.80.1ei for an
egg, which will bring 4 lei on the open market.
5. The Prahova Union received 6,000 barrels of a chemical preparation for the
treatment of wheat. The preparation could not be used and had to be returned
to the factory,
6. In August or September of 1951.a new deportment was opened to barter building
materials against farm products. One cubic meter of building timber was
reportedly to be exchanged for 80 chickens or 120 kilograms of fat or 200
kilograms of wheat or 70 kilograms of beans. Prices and system of calculations
are not known.
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No nw1 building activity has been noticed on visits to Ploesti and Salta
Dovientei, 13reaza, Valeni de Munte, Tintea, Baicoi, Ploestiorip and Balsas.
Only workers with special passes are snowed into the oilfields.
8. The following personality is known:
s. Victor, head of oil transport department at Ploesti (Niscare) railroad
station. He is I a
Party member bnt despises the Cormnunists and the government. His wife 50X1 HUM
is from Dorohoi, She hates the Communists,
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