THE ELECTROCABLU FACTORY IN BUCHAREST

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100960002-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 8, 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-
tog of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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SECURITY INFORMATION
The Electrocablu Factory in Bucharest
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1o The Electrocablu. Factory was formed in 1948 by the amalgamation of seven
factories which had manufactured electrical equipment. The equipment of?the
following factories was transferred to the Electrocablu factory at Soseaua
Garii Catelu No. 4, Bucharest.
a, Fabrica Electrocablu, Bulevardul Dimitrov, Bucharest
be Fabrica E.1nor, Strada Ing. Tacu, Bucharest
c. Electrotuburi Bucuresti, Strada Cosminului, Bucharest
d. One factory at Cluj
e. Two factories at Stalin-Brasov
f. One factory whose location is not flown.
2, The Electrocablu factory produces wire coils, N.A.G. rubberized wires with
a copper core for external connections.., N.K.B.A. power cables up to 60 mm.,,
plugs, insulated Bergmann pipes., reinforced tubes,-rubberized wire, and non-
rubberized wire? The factory also fines down 6 mm, copper wire.
3. Value of the November 1951 production was 9$,000,000 lei, and that for
December 1951 was 102,000,000 lei.
4. The equipment transferred from the seven factories is very old, Wire-
drawing equipment consisted of four old machines, Two new machines
from the Campia-Turzii factory were installed in October 1951, and their
production capacity is greater than that of all the old machines combined.
Copper wire is obtained from the Campia-Turr'ii `Transylvania), Laminorul
(Bucharest), and Metrom (Stalin-Brasov) factories. The Campia-Turzii
factory is reported to have started producing an aluminum core for N.G.A.
cables.
Crude rubber and synthetic rubber were received up to 1951 from the USSR;
however, the USSR supplied only a, very small quantity of crude rubber in
1951, and the Banloc factory at Baicoi supplied synthetic rubber.
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In 1949 the Electrocablu factor has a reserve of more than 5,000 kilograms
of tin, but the reserve was being used up slowly. In 1952 tin became short,
and only smarm.: quantities are obtained from the U.
8. The Nadrag works supply from sheets.
9. Electricity s from the power station of the 23 August factory which is
located just opposite the Electrocabini combine.
10, The Ministry of Power and. Electricity and the State Planning Commission
authorise state concerns to receive goods from the Electrocablu factories.
Centroconnetall. delivers goods to state concerns,, and Ferometal handles
products for general trade. Most deliveries in 1950-51 went to the Danube.-
' Black Sea Causal,, which is still the factory?s most important client.
11. Electrocablu a ploys 780 workers, 270 of whom are women. Average age of
markers is under 30. In 1951 the factory engaged .13 young technicians who
had spent two years in the USSR for specialization in cable manufacture.
They introduced the production of"N.K.B.A. cables, for which they received
bonuses totalling one million lei.
12. Electrocablu has never been able to complete more than 50 per cent of its
planned production. It has never received enough copper wire, and the
.shortage of rubber and tin have slowed down production. A large proportion
of substitute material (various types of clay) is used, with the result that
the resistance of the cables and the degree of insulation are low.
13. The following officials of the Electrocablu factory are known:
Virgil Parcoaga. eeneral manager-
Salzberger (fnu), chief enzineerl
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