1. ROADS AND RAILROADS 2. CLUJ-BUCHAREST GAS PIPELINE 3. TRANSFORMER STATION NEAR SUCEA SEACA

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 22, 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.B. 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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COUNTRY Rumania REPORT NO.
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1. Roads and Railroad
DATE DISTR.
22 June 1953
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2. Cluj-Bucharest Gas Pipeline
3. Transformer Station Near Sucea Seaca
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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Roads
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a, The Bucharest4Urziceni-Faurei road which leads to ralia was completed in 1950.
Part of this road was two lanes wide and had a concrete surface.
Gr. In the Spring of 1951 the road between Braila and Galati, which during World
War II was a dirt road, had an all weather surface, possibly asphalts During
and before World War II a two-car motor ferry crossed the Siret River between
Braila and Galati,
2. the Moldova region was undergoing "serious"
highway construction, most o new roads being in northern Moldova, running
west over the Carpathians.
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Railroads
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rac raa:~_ line along the Jit.. River had been completed in 1949-19500
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Gas Pipeline
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.During-World war I 1I some gas conduits had been laid in Bucharest;
in 1948
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apartment houses and homes have converted to gas for heating and
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undependa. . e use of methane gas was
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somehow rationed.
Transformer. Station near Sucea, Seaca
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the villa e of Sucea Seaca is located
near the town of Tar dvisste k56N-2526E7. 1 ::1
T e station
of an oil field and housed two 'Dinano-built 2,500 KVA transformers..
The input was not more than 30,000 V. and the output was 6.Q00 V.
This transformer station was connected to several smaller step-down
transformers within a radius of five kilometers. the
step-down transformers output
was 1,000 or 500 V. It seemed to be in turn, connected to e
electric motors of the oil drills in the vicinity.
some of the oil drills were run by steam power.
most of the oii ari.u.
electric motors were ore n-ma a same were built by
Dinamo, Bucharest.
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