ECONOMIC INFORMATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 30, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY . REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT 50
U. S. C.. 31 AND 32 AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRO-
HIBITED BY LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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FCONOMIC INFORMATION
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War industries (November 1951) DD ~y
Mociornita shoe factory; it receives the necessary raw materials from
the interior and produces finished goods. The factory produces 5,000 pair
of shoes daily and employs 5,000 workers. A large part of the output of
this factory is shipped to the USSR.
Nigral shoe factory; its output is below that of the above mentioned
shoe factory and supplies the military also. It employs a smaller number of
workers.
Garlex shoe factory; it is as large and important as the Mociouita
factory. At present it works on orders placed by the Soviets.
Talpa shoe factory; same as preceding factory.
Lemetro plant which produces metals; it produces locomotive boilers
and repairs cannons. It employs 4,000 workers. No other details are
available.
Wolf plant; it is a 2nd class plant which manufactures /RRJ cars,
wheels, etc; during the last war, it also produced cannons.
Grivita locomotive, car, a'-d rail plant; it is a lst class plant. No
other details available.
Malco locomotive, arms, light tank, and cannon (including antiaircraft)
plant; it is one of the most important plants in Rumania. It employs 15,000
workers in a 24-hour day. At present it works only on orders placed by the
Soviets.
S.E.T. aircraft plants which make I.A.R. 35 aircraft. No other details
are available.
I.S.A.R. aircra dart?t}}
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Kalas machine shops fid assembly, PbORINJ. they make and assemble aircraft
engine parts.
Note: All the above-mentioned plants are located in Bucharest.
Arad (November 1951)
Astra locomotive and car plant; it is a lst class plant. It employ
15,000 workers.
Stalin (Brasov) (November 1951)
I.A.R. aircraft plant; it employs 25,000 workers and produces tractors.
Resita (November 1951)
Blast furnaces and steel works; they employ 35,000 workers.
RUMANIA
ECONOMIC INFORMATION (August 1951)
All printing shops and stationery stores obtain paper through the
Paper Office (Oficiul de Hartie) of the Graphic Arts Center of the Ministry
of Polygraphy (Ministerul Poligrafiei). Paper cannot be obtained in any
other way. The paper comes from. the paper mills of Busteni, Letea, and
Scaeni.
As a result of the plans drawn up by the State Planning Commission,
every government agency is entitled to receive a certain amount of paper
from the Ministry of Polygraphy. Every 3 months, each agency submits a re-
quest on a special form provided by the said ministry. The request indicates
how much paper of every type is needed. Since the amount supplied by this
ministry is smaller than the amount requested, the various agencies now, as
a rule, request much more paper than they actually need. Sometimes an
agency may receive, instead of lined paper, an equal amount (by weight) of
cardboard, if the type of paper requested is not available.
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difficulty in procuring notebooks which, incidentally, are very expensive.
Books are also scarce.
Customers bring newspapers to the grocery stores to wrap their pur-
chases. Sometimes, for lack of paper, they bring pansor boxes.
Some of the reasons for the paper shortage are as follows:
Large exports to the USSR and other eastern countries without taking
into consideration local needs.
The inabilit~r to produce, because of lack of appropriate machinery, the
types of paper provided for in the plan.
Large consumption of paper by government agencies. In fact, the
Communist Party, which officially states that it wants to combat bureau-
cracy, has actually increased bureaucratic red tape both in go~erntnent and
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All offices, factories, schools, institutes, cooperatives, and kolkhoezes
must keep up to date 5, 6,
or even '7 different types of records.
by Scanteia, organ of the Communist Party,
color as Pravda and Izvestiya, these
.e source of the paper used
is of the same type and
newspapers are of the same
color only because they are produced by the same process, and not because
the paper used by Scanteia is imported from the USSR.
(Nothing is imported from the USSR. They only export
RUMANIA
ECONOMIC INFORMATION
State Planning Commission (CSP, Comisia de Stat a Planificarii); Bucharest,
September 1951.
The head of the co3or;i.ssion is Miro sty t?-nescu of the Politburo of
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The commission occupies three groups of buildings, as follows:
The "Carpathian" group on Academy Street, at the corner of Rebublica
Street.
A group of buildins near the former building of the General Union of
Rumanian Engineers.
y group of new buildings to the rear of the Prefecture, next to the
Arpa motion picture theater, on Dobrogeanu - Gherea Street.
Minister Constantinescu and the members of the CSP have their offices
in the building formerly occupied by the General Union of Rumanian Engin_~ers.
One of the divisions of the CSP is the Division of Woods and Forests
(Divizia Silviculturu si a Lemnului).
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This division is divided into the following 3 sections:
Forestry Section (Sectia Lemn)
Paper-Cellulose Section (Sectia Celuloza-Hartie)
Forest Exploitation Section (Sectia Frelucrarii Lemnului)
All the work is planned out, and each section works independently of
the others; even in the same sectio:, it may be said that one office does
not know what another is doing.
Documents are circulated in the strictest secrecy.
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the Finance Division and the Metallurgy Division
were located in Carpathian group of buildings, in which the Division of
Woods and Forests was also located.
On the second floor is located the Cadre Directorate (Directia de
Cadre) of the CSP; its chief is Simion Bughici.
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Paper and cellulose plants come6deJ) fF Ui9NLYf the Division
of Woods and Forests, The distribution of paper throughout the country also
comes under the supervision of the CSP.
There is a serious paper shortage in Rumania. ,-Ls or notebooks, at the
beginning of the school year each school must submit a list of its pupils and
the amount of paper required by each of them.
It is the responsibility of the CSP to examine these requests and allocate
the paper. In this, the CSP makes use of another agency, the State Supply
Commission (CSA - Comisia de Stat a Aprovizionarii).
without CSA authorization no school may obtain books or paper in any book
or stationery store, just as no book or stationery store may draw any supply
without CSA authorization.
The procurement of paper from the plants is carried out by the so-called
"Centrocomhartie" (Centru Comertului de Hartie, Paper Trade Center) which
are large paper warehouses located in various parts of the country. These centers
supply book stores, stationery stores, schools, offices, government ministries, etc.
Busteni (September 1951)
A paper mill whose output is used for the most part by the government
ministries.
Petresti (September 1951)
"First May" paper mill.
(Note: Petresti is a villace located near Sebesu; Sasesc)
RUMANIA
POLITICAL-ECONOI,a C INFORMATION
The Communist Party is making every effort to educate the youth, especially
[college] students. All means are deemed justifiable to educate the youth
along party lines.
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The youths receive all the Ufnt. s6 o'1LwUh3m LY ' possible for them
to disobey their parents. Any means are deemed good if it widens the rift
between the youths and their families.
Food is plentiful in the cities of Rumania, but prices are very high;
for example: 1 kilogram of bread costs 70 lei; 1 kilogram of meat, 250; 1
chicken, 700; 1 turkey, 1,500; 1 kilograu; of potatoes, 30; z quintal of fire-
wood, 10,000 lei on the black market.
RUMANIA
POLITICAL INFORMATION
Partisan Forces (September 1951)
In Curtea de Arges
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presence of
partisans in the mountains to the north of the city. The entire population
speaks of them favorably. There are partisans also farther north, in the
forests around the villages of Nucsoara and Bradet, near the Carpathian Moun-
tains. Once, 40-50 partisans descended at night into Nucsoara and it
appears that the police were afraid to oppose them.
The Nucsoara and Bradet partisans are in contact with those on the
northern slope of the Carpathian mountains, in the Negoiul and Vistea Mare
regions; these latter partisans fled from Sibiu and Fagaras. They are all in
contact with each other and have the support of the population.
The partisans arrested in the Arges mountains are sent to the Pitesti
prison which is full of political prisoners.
There are partisans also near Domnesti, in the Campolung district.
Following the territorial division of Rumania into regions and its new ad-
ministrative division carried out last year, this area is comprised in the
Arses region.
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The population always 5 a3OF1 IGIAtLSncOrN J rthi_ng and has seen nothing.
If the partisans kill a member of the Militia or of the Security corps, this
latter organization arrests ten citizens, though innocent, for every man killed,
and takes them away. This, naturally, does not increase the people's esteem of
the police.
The.partisans are armed. During April and May of last year there was a
strong exchange of fire between partisans and Security forces in the Campolung
mountains.
Only in winter can the Militia and Security forces undertake operations
against the partisans. No such operations are possible when the trees begin to
NOTE
SUBJECT: Rebellion in Rumanian plants against the surrender of equipment to
the USSR.
In one of the largest steam boiler factories in Rumania the employees
rebelled when a Soviet commission arrived to take over the equipment of the plant to
be transferred to the U$SR. During the past 2 months, this was the third case
of open revolt on the part of Rumanina workers against the dismantling of
industrial plants which, according to a Rumano-Soviet agreement, are to be
surrendered to the USSR.
31 December 1951.
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