COPPER AND IRON MINES NEAR ROMAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100400007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
This Document contains information affecting the Na_
tional Defense of the United States, wltbin the mean-
ing of Title 18,.Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this .form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT Copper and Iron Mines near Roman
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 29 April 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
This is UNEVALUATED Information
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
ICSX is a state building company with a number of Soviet engineers, Among
the building projects undertaken by the company are metallurgical works and
mines et Hunedoara, Resita and Roman
and buildin
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uchareste All
Party projects of a secret nature are carried out by ICSM,,
In November 1951 the Party Central Committee decided to carry out a project,
planned by Soviet engineers during the previous 12 months, in connection with
large deposits of copper and iron ore 23 km? southwoub of Romans It is also
rumored that uranium has been found among these de
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poi,
se The site of the
mines is approximatelys Rumania 11100,000 IASI No, 4570?,686/713 to 681/713,
3o Persons who have inspected the sites are the former eclish ambassador in
Londo
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erman] an engineer from the Clectroputere factory at Craiova,
Simion Zaiger, who is also a former President of the State Planning Conmiew
Sion j and another engineer of the ICSM Building CompitLiy, Kaunits,
The entire project, to be finished in three years, with ore smelting to
begin after one year, includes the building oft
A metallurgical factory with Bessemer furnaces, The first stage of ,the
buildings, comprising 25 per cent of the whole project, is to consist of
18 halls, each 72 meters long by 14 meters wide, and two halls, 125
meters long ,, and 50 meters wide,
be Housing for 20,000 workers, similar to that built at Hunedoara,
About:120 engineers and technicians, all of whom had to be approved by the
Party, were engaged for the beginning'of the project
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number of wooden huts were built for the engineers and workers, including
some from Petrosani and from the USSR, who are to start work in the mines.
Large quantities of materials for trolleys and cableways have been stocked,
and five Soviet excavators have started %orke About 6,000 military laborers
.are employed,
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b. A pipeline,, with a duplex pumping stations was built to supply 3,000,00
cu. m. of water to the project.
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following personalities are know::
a? o
a~n Political Director of ICS!
b.
Olga Vas is now a member of the Party Control Commission.
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Party leaders:
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