INDUSTRIALIMPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100780007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within 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
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Industrialimport
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 4 may 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
16 Inudstrialimport,9 a state company 'under the Ministry of Foreign Trade,, was
established about the middle of 1950. Up to this date Petrolexport was
responsible. for both oil exports and import of machinery for the oil
industry, Industrialimport deals principally with the import of machinery
and materials for the oil Ld mining industries, but it does occasionally
import machinery for other industries. Industrialimport is located at
Calea Gabriel Perk No..2, Bucharest. Up to March 1951 the comparl3r employed
170 workers, but tiiis number was reduced by 20 percent in June 1951.
Diesel -motors of 100, 19500,9 and 2.9000 hp. were imported from the USSR$
Czechoslovakia.o id Poland. These motors are required by the oils,. mining$
and other industries. The Soviet and Polish motors are of poor quality,
but the Czech motors are of good quality,
It had been planned to import 60 diesel locomotives of 60, 90, a 4d 120 h.p.
but only approximately 44 locomotives had been received March 19510
This number included six Soviet Zis.of _ poor nuality~__
All these locomotives
are in ended for the Danube-Black Sea !Canal, Sovromcarbune, and the Sovroms,
II.. Twenty to thirty excavators and an unknown number of agricultural tractors
were imported from the USSR.
Kitchen installations for a large aircraft and for the ship TRANSYLVANIA
were obtained from an unknown firm Certain share s for the
TRANSYLVANIA were also received
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6. A certain number of mobile derricks and drilling rods were imported from
the USSR, other drilling rods from Czechoslovakia and Poland, and pipes
and sleeves for drilling equipment from the USSR and Czechoslovakia. An
unknown number of small and large pumps for the oil and mining industries
were imported from the USSR and Czechoslovakia,
7, A total of 10,000 tons of magnetite,. limonite, hematite, and baryta were
imported from Bulgaria, as a result of orders placed in 1950, The baryta
is used in-sludge form to prevent the eruption of gas. The magnetite,
limonite, and hematite were sent to Resita, Titan, and Nadrag; the
baryta was sent to the oil industry.
8. An unknown quantity of coke was imported from Poland and sent to Resita.
One hundred thousand tons of coke were to have been imported from
Czechoslovakia by terms of a contract concluded in 1951.
9. Small round plates of a hard metal, quantity and metal unknown, were
imported from Czechoslovakia,
10. An unknown number of water pipe were imported from the USSR. These pipes
were of poor quality and flattened out when placed underground.
11.. The following personalities are known:
AnRhel, fnu, General Manner'
Eugen Bunescu, head of the commercial department
c,"' '-anach., fnu.. Enlineeri ring Adyi-snrj
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