MINISTRY OF HEAVY ENGINEERING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100740009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY
Czechoslovakia
REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT
Ministry of Heavy E;xgineering
DATE DISTR.
26 May 1953
NO. OF PAGES
2
DATE OF INFO
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1. The organization of the Ministry of. Heavy Engineering was essentially the
saame as that of all the other ministries in the gover+mmeist. The basic units in the
organization were the main admjnistrationR(hlavni sprava). Several main admin-
istrationp were under each deputy minister.
2. The head of each main administration carried the title of Manager (reditel); he
was responsible for th.e' over-,all operation of his main administration. On his
staff there was a Chief Engineer, who supervised all the plants in a particular 2 5X1X
field and was responsible for the production of each. The Manager also had on.
his staff the following; planning officer, legal officer, finance officer, research
officer inspection officer, social officer, and others; whose titles
call. ome of these officers served two or more main administrations within the
Ministry.
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3. The Ministry of Heavy Engineering maintained close connections with the Ministry
of Domestic Trade, Ministry of Foreign Trade, and the State Planning Office through
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the main administrations. The main administrations ih the Ministry of Foreign
Trade had representatives attached to the foreign trade sections of the Ministry
of Heavy Engineering; st;ch close liaison was necessary because of the over-all
planning prograr4. Negotiations between the two ministries usually were carried
on by the managers of the main administrations, their chief engineers, or other
assistants, such as the planning officer. High policy matters were settled by
the deputy .inisters and/or the ministers themselves. The Ministry of State
Control did not have any special representatives at the other ministries,
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but in the Ministry of State Control were officials charged w
the "observation and inspection" of all other ministries.
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-.he-spot inspections of industrial
installations. Such cases were justified by failure to meet
production quotas, suspected sabotage (such cases were later
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robably discrepancies in handling funds 25A 1A
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pproaching.4onsolidation in the State Planning Office, It may
be said that production quotas were being. filled approximately
2.006. This does not mean, however, that there was widespread
economic prosperity. It simply means that only as much
production was being planned as industry could handle. Bad
economic planning had resulted in shortages which had previously
been satisfied by so-called spire-time production in plants. But
this was changed, and such production under the Ministries of
Industry also had to have the prior app roval of the Mate
Planning Office, The situation was different for the Ministries
of Agriculture Mining and Metallurgy, where the plan was fulfilled
? 137 only about O$, bioause failure to most industrial quotas was
blamed ultimately on one of these two ministries.
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