SOVROMCONSTRUCTIA AT BOTOSANI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100810006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 11, 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
SUBJECT Sovromconstructia at Botosani
1., There are two Sovr'omconstructia offices at Botosani, one for the Moldavia
district and the other for the Botosani district.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 11 May .1953
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The Botosani office is located on Calea Nationala, Bear the Botosani
station From 1,200 to 1,500 workers are employed..
Work completed or in progress at Botosani includes the following:
non-commissioned officers and also as living quarters for some un s.
Barracks for a cavalry regiment of about 2,000 men. There are several
one-story buildings and stables. They are situated outside the town
on the road leading to Dorohoi.
Barracks on Strada Vanatori (outside the town and on the road leading
to Sulita). The buildings; all one-story, are scattered over an area
'of.one square kilometer. They will probably serve as a school for
it
c,. Buildings for the Militia on Blvd. Eminescu with an area of 250 ti.
300 square meters.' The buildings consist of offices, a stable, and
a detention room for 30 to 40 men,
d.. Buildings for a cotton spinning and weaving mill. At least 2,500
workers are already employed, and their number is to be increased
to 10,000 by 1952.. The mill is located 500 meters from the station
on the road leading to Dorohot.
Renovation of a barracks for the 37 Infantry Re4iment,, The one-story
building is located outside the town on the road leading to Iasi and
can house appro dmat.ely 2,000 men.
:fo Renovation of a one-story barracks on Strada Vanatori for the Re-
cruiting Office. .
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4.
Work completed at Dorohoi includes the following:
a. Two new,'one-story buildings near the former 29 Infantry Regiment
barracks. The buildings, located just outside the town on the road
to Botosani, are probably to serve as a Securitatea officers' school
for about 8,000 cadets.
b. Renovation of a barracks fors the 79 Infantry Regiment'' This building,
located just outside the town on the road to Darabani, can house 2,000,
men,
c. Prison for 3,OOO to 4,000 prisoners. This is a three-story brick and
concrete building located about two kilometers beyond the station.
d. Fire station. This is a one-story building in the center of the town
to house a team of 40 to 50 men.
e. Water pipe leading to the barracks of the 29 and 79 Infantry Regiments.
Dorohoi has no central water supply. The pumping station, a small cony
crate building on a mountain about three or four kilometers outside the
town, is approximately 500 meters off the right hand side of the road to
Botosani. The pumping station supplies only 50 per cent of the needs of
the barracks, and additional sources of water are being sought.
5. Work in progress at Campulung includes a building for a cadet school (for
4,000 to 5,000 cadets), which is named for IMil Bodnaras, Minister of
National Defense. This building, located on the Campulung.-Radauti road,
covers an area of 2,000 to 2,500 square meters and is to be finished in
1952,
In May 1951 Haber,: fnu, Sovromconstructiats chief engineer for the building
of the cotton spinning mill in Botosani, was arrested. Haber and the chief
accountant, Rabinovici, a fanatical Communist, were-both sentenced to 20
years imprisonment for sabotage. They were held responsible for the fact
that the Soviet machines were rusted by water which had penetrated through
the concrete. This'was considered sabotage, so as not to place the blame ci
Soviet manufactures,
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