THE LITHUANIAN SCRAP IRON DIRECTORATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A054900170001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 7, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
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COUNTRY USSR (Lithuanian SSR)
SUBJECT The Lithuanian Scrap Iron Directorate
DATE OF
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REPORT
DATE DISTR. 7 ~w I c~ 19,60
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REFERENCES RD
The report 50X1-HUM
contains a description of the various departments, activities and some
key personalities of the Scrap Iron Directorate.
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USSR (Lithuanian SSR)
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The Lithuanian Scrap Iron Directorate
1. The Directorate for Collection, Processing and Dispatch of
Scrap Iron of the Lithuanian SSR (Litovskoye Respublikanskoye
Upravlenie Po Zagotovke, Pererabotke I Otgruzke Vtorichnikh
Chernikh Metalov) was subordinate to the All-Union Ministry
of Ferrous Metallurgy (Ministerstvo Chernoy Metallurgii SSSR).
Established immediately after World War II, the directorate
was located at No. 25 Muzeynaya ulitsa in Vilnius.
2. The principal duties of the directorate were to organize the
collection of scrap metal throughout the republic, to concen-
trate at the locations selected for this purpose to condition
it for rail transport, and to execute initial processing of a
certain amount of scrap before its shipment to the foundries.
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3, The institution was headed by a director with the chief engineer
as his deputy. Departments of the directorate were the following:
a. Production Department (Proizvodstvenniy Otdel),
which kept daily telephone contact with the
scrap collection centers so as to ensure
fulfillment of the plan. It then forwarded
daily reports to this effect to the Main
Directorate in Moscow. Representatives
of this department regularly visited the
various scrap supplier enterprises*
b. Planning and Sales Department (Planoviy
Otdel i Sbit), which prepared the monthly
and yearly schedules on which the work of
the directorate's branches was based. The
department was also responsible for budget
planning and the regional distribution of
the representatives in the field. Regarding
sales, the department checked and coordinated
shipments to customers with the plan schedules
in respect to quantity and type of scrap.
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To this end, it calculated deliveries to
each customer, planned the number of railroad
cars required for transporting the scrap to
the foundries, and received all complaints
regarding short weight or inferior quality.
co Supply Department (Otdel Snabzhenia), which
obtained all building materials required
for construction and maintenance at the
collection centers and the directorate
proper,
d. Cadres and Special Bureau (Otdel Kadrov i
Spetsyalniy Otdel), which dealt with the
hiring and dismissing of personnel, regis-
tering of current work, job cards, etc.
The head of the department was also in
charge of the Special Bureau, where classi-
fied communications received from various
authorities by special messengers were
safeguarded. In this category was corres-
pondence with the Council of Ministers and
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the armed forces, as well as all documents
relating to restricted subjects.
e. Accounts Department.
4. The directorate maintained seven branches throughout the
republic, which collected scrap and processed it for shipment.
The largest branches were those located in Vilnius, Kaunas,
and Klaypeda. Each branch had at its disposal trucks and
cranes for the collection and loading work.
5. The Lithuanian directorate was controlled by a main directorate
in Moscow, which planned the collection and dispatch of scrap
on a monthly and annual basis. These schedules were binding on
the Lithuanian institution with regard to quantities, types,
and suppliers. More often than not, they could not be executed
since, though officially based on the Lithuanian reports, the
Moscow planners invariably added a certain percentage to the
original figures as a matter of principle. Only rarely did
representatives of the main directorate visit Lithuania, and
then only to convince local -workers that the plan could be
fulfilled. To the same end, the main directorate offered
bonuses to shock workers and employees who managed to reduce
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overhead expenses. Generally speaking,, the directorate did
not operate at a profit but, on a national scale, its activities
were considered sufficiently important for Soviet economy to
justify its existence.
6. The main directorate exercised economic and financial control
over the Lithuanian directorate. Often checks were carried out
upon receipt of anonymous complaints about staff members and
organizational shortcomings. In early 1956, a case of mutual
denunciation occurred when the director and the chief engineer
each
of the Lithuanian directorate/attempted to oust the other.
This was brought to an end with the dismissal of the chief
engineer.
7. The main source of scrap during the postwar period was abandoned
military equipment, large quantities of which were collected in
the Kaliningrad area. When these sources were exhausted, the
main suppliers became metal works in Vilnius and other parts
of Lithuania, such as the Elfa Plant, Zhalgiris (factory of
metal-working machinery), and Zavod 555. In addition, the
directorate collected scrap from various other sources, also
determined by the overall plan; included among these were the
collection drives of schools.
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8. An important source of scrap material was the armed forces,
although the quantities and types collected were a well
guarded secret. This type of scrap was handled by a special
department of the Baltic Military District Headquarters.
Another important supplier was the Lithuanian Railways, vhich
supplied unserviceable rolling stock and rails and scrap from
its workshops.
9. The 1956 plan called for the collection of about 70,000 tons
of scrap. This quantity was sent to the directorate's main
customers in the Urals and Siberia. When the required work
on scrap could not be executed at the directorate's shops,
the scrap was delivered to various plants for processing prior
to smelting; such plant customers were located in Yaroslav,
Dnepropetrovks, and Gorkiy. When, however, scrap was out to
size at the directorate's collection centers, the scrap was
sent to such plants as the Uralmash-Zavod and a military plant
in Izhevsk.
10. The directorate had always been a center of fraud and
corruption. Since stock pilfering in the collection warehouses
was difficult, branch managers would accumulate surplues by
short-weighing the scrap upon arrival at the centers. Such
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deals indeed enriched the top executives and their assistants.
These practices were frdquently brought to the attention of the
economic police by anonymous denunciations (no details).
U. The following persons were reported:
a. Vodnev (fnu), general manager of the Main
Directorate for Scrap Metal Collection in
Moscow
b. Aleksandr Timofeyevich Kamensky, general
manager of the Lithuanian Scrap Iron Collec-
tion Directorate since 1949
c. Nikolay Mitrofanovich Serpukhovitinov, chief
engineer of the Lithuanian Directorate until
1956
d. Piotr Bugo, chief engineer of the Lithuanian
Directorate since 195
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feamale
e. Zinaida Abromovna Levitanusj head of the
special bureau of the Lithuanian Directorate,
female
f. Esfira Borisovna Markin, head of the
Directorate since 1950
planning department of the Lithuanian
David Mikhaylovich Alterman,, head of the
production department of the Lithuanian
Directorate
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