CHANGES IN PLANS FOR THE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100850006-9
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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~' ECT Ghmns es in Plans for the' ! Stteal
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At noon on 6 June 1953,
Rudolf Steinwand, head of the Iron
and 8teo1 Baia Det?ar-aient of the Minis?i:.ry for ? etall orgy and Ore Mining in East
Berlin effective at once., the DEL Politbuero had ordered rigor,-,xs plan
hangers., Steinwand requested the leading employees to come to the office on
Sunday, ? June 1953, to prepare new plem -arotyosalls.
2v On 7 June 1953, th employees of the Ministry for Meta lurgy and Ore MLninc
and those of the k raistry for eight Industry who had appeared
to revise t be plans, were rent home a eirf, as the new documents for the twt n1n..s
tries had not yet been conmieted by the Soviet Rich Comm ;ssi.on Ia KarlshT?st,
3.> On Wednesday, 10 June 1953, a conference of the department heads of the Iron
and Steel Industry-14in Departzaant.--took place under the chairmanship of
department head Wilhelm Salzer, Salzsr then gave a detailed report on the
measures ordered by the SED PolitbueroT stating that the ministers were
directed to slow dawn the industrial development to improve the supply of
the population with consumer goods and teat the 1953 economy plan and the
19,4 and 1955 plans would have to be revised on the basis of these measures..
ti: l :esr finally ~Ated the direcvives by Minister Selbmarin for the changes
{,n be ex.scuted in the field of the activity of the Iron and Steel Indus tlry-
in Department-and stressed that the figures quoted in the directives of
the P sister had not yet been confi rmed raid, consequently? could be changed,
He added that a i eet,ing of the A .nisteris.l Councilman call-ad .for. 12 June 1953
which would possibly confirm the proposals of the Mnister
C,IgWm ,.'The -zlekr~plaiiq . tr?n~*ndiF a ateg1 Luc tas for the iron
usd sus o1 VEBs indicate t-hat, as compared with previous plan figures,,
Lie following changes are scheduled..,
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Previous 1954 1954 plan
i% Fan I.iaiwe fig-twe on
in to) the basis of
>T a present
port
( nj toil3 )
iron 1,855,000
2,995,0010
i 1, f iO 006
2,735,0 GO
rrevious 1955 1955 plan
plan #: i oure figure on
(in tons the basis o:
the present
: ".port
(in tone )
2, 035,000
1, 50, 0G+
3,"720,000
3,000,{ C0
1' 1e o sta ,, ens indicate that no considerable increase in production is to ba
-,m-? ted t:: stiff 1955.
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