STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE COLLECTION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001600960003-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 13, 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
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kiTY. INFORMAT;ON
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT State CCoi ttee for the3o1 .ectiot of
Agricultural Products
PLACE ACQUIRE:
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 13 July 1953
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1. The State Committee for the Collection of Agricultural Products (Comitetul de Stat
Pentru Colectaea Produselor A8ricole; CSCPA) was established on 15 May 1950,
following the reorganization of Comcereal. It is located at Bulevardul Republicii
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2. CSCPA`is an independent organization, equivalent in rank to a ministry. Its duties
are collecting and storing of agricultural produce, particularly grain, and fixing
annual quotas of production to be collected from farmers. On 1 January 1952 CSCPA
received t he additional duties of setting production quotas, collecting, and storing
3. The CSCPA head office in Bucharest employs approximately 700 people in nine direct-
brates and three-bureaus. The head office is organized along the lines of a ministry.
There are regional reception centers in the principal cities of each district,
sever: .district centers in the smaller towns, and collection points in every village.
Grain is transferred temporarily from village collection points and district centers
to large storage depots. There are also a number of modern mechanically equipped, air-
conditioned silos where grain is stored, principally for export and as reserve.
a. Large silos: Constanta, Braila, Tecuci, Tiganesti (probably Teleorman region),
arid'-Craiova,
be 611 silos: Buzau, Cernavoda, Turnu Magurele, Galati, Calafat (Doll region)
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Fetesti (Ialomita region), Tandarei, Calarasi, Bale (Doll region), and Timisoara. :
c. Large maize-drying plants: Braila, Giurgiu, Oltenita,2yand Tecuci.
.The State Reserves Office (Oficiul Rezervelor de Stat; ORS) was established in 1951.
It is responsible for collection and storing of wheat, principally for stockpiling.
rnu Severin, Alexandria (Teleorman region), Branceni (Teleorman region)
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Medgdia'(Constanta region), Urziceni (Ialomita region) Slobozia (Ialomita re
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r. Simminn (fnn' hf-ad of the lezal affairs bureau
s. Gheorehe Stance head of Personnel and Cadres Directorate
t, Tristeanu, (fnu
head of Investments Directorate)
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