SOVIET-RUMANIAN COLLABORATION IN TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000300220006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Rumania
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Sb?.: INFORKiArION
'SUM= Soviet-Rumanian Collaboration in
Technical and Scientific Research
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
SOURCE
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTR. 30 March 1354
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A 0OMMiiiii00 of Technical-Scientific Collaboration Comisia de
Colaborare Teonioe-Stientifioa OTS), located on Strada Framolea
in Bucharest, was responsible for coordinating Rumanian technioali
and soientifio research with that of the USSR and the other Communist
OOuntries. The head of this Commission was one Stefan BALAN. The
staff consisted of 45 employees, all Rumanian. Source heard that
thie,Commission was under the control of the President of the Council
of Ministers. He thinks it has been in existence since 1951.
The Commission was divided into national sections (one for the MB,
one for Czeohoslovakia, one for China, Ito.) which to* care of
technical and scientific cooperation with the corresponding sections
Of similar commissions in other countries. Presumably, therefore
there was a corresponding ?omission 1 in forum, with a MnemniAn
seotion which worked together with the Czechoslovak seotion of the
Bucharest Commission. Bilateral meetings were held two or three
times a year, though with the industrially advanced countries such
as the USSR and Czechoslovakia meetings were more frilliest.
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In addition to the national sections, there were coordinating co
which cut across national lines.
the Soviet Union or other Sateles osuynew me
example, in 1953 about five or six Rumanians were sent to the USSR
to learn how to run a penicill t r which Rumania was scheduled
to receive from the Russians. 50X1
another six or seven men were scheduled to go o .use a, an o to
Czechoslovakia. The factory, incidentally, was being built at Iasi
and was supposed to begin partial production by the end of 1954. When
it reached capacity in five or six years, it was to have about 2,000
employees. All industrial ministries in Rumania through their tech-
nical directorates had connections with this Commission for arranging
for exchange and training of technical personnel. The Ministry of
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;her
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see any Russian exchange technical personnel in Rumania.
4. Security problems were excluded from the work of the Commission. The
Source thought some other organization took care of such problems,
but he did not kno,:, which one.
The Source was under the general impression that there had been
instances in which the Russians had asked for technical or scientific
help from the Rumanians, but he knew of no specific cases. That
the Russians drew on the experience of even the Rumanians was shown
by the fact that some Rumanians who asked for help in solving a
problem of aerodynamics were told by the Russians that the man who
could answer their questions was a Rumanian professor, Elie CARAFOLI,
whose writings on aerodynamics were known in the USSR. The professor
had been somewhat out of favor with the regime in Rumania until then,
but thereafter, though he was not a Communist, he became a member of
the Rumanian Academy of Sciences and was given several responsible
positions.
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