ATTEMPT BY USIA TO SELL CONTENTS OF SIX WAREHOUSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R003700070022-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2001
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: October 21, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION S.&CRLT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
Austria DATE DISTR. 21 Oct. 1949
SUBJECT Attempt by USIA to Sell Contents of Six
Warehouses
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1. Through Erwin Bracher, the iron and steel 25X1 X
section of the Directorate o S A is attempting to line up an American or
British purchaser for the contents of six large warehouses located at Wiener-
Neudorf.
2. According to I3reeher, the contents of these warehouses are worth from four
to six million dollars at this time; they Include the following items 18
freight locomotives in running condition; large quantities of electrolytic
copper; aluminum in rods and shoots; hematite; copper wrire; machine tools;
printing presses; cast iron, drainage, and steel pipes; boilers of various
capacities; steam turbine generator sets; industrial transformers with capacities
of up to 50 KVA; standard and narrow gauge rails in now and used condition;
complete, unassembled bridges; and steel and cast iron scrap.
3. Complete lists of the inventory are held by Bracher, who maintains an office
in the Hotel Astoria, Vienna I. Ilost of the items enumerated above were
formerly German.-owned and were kept as war booty by the Russians in the
Wiener-Heudorf area; they are the remains of proper from which various
Russian missions have made selections. Part of the , however, consists of
equipment, still in good condition, which belongs to several USIA factories
-whose locations are not known. Bracher states that this equipment will be sold
to anyone for hard currency. He stater further that a purchaser could procure
all the listed items at an extremely favorable price amounting to eight to ten
per cent of their value (sic). USIA will guarantee safe delivery to any port
chosen by the purchaser. Allegedly, USIA wishes to t .ko this sale before the
signing of the peace treaty.
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