COMMERCIAL CENTER OF THE ELECTROTECHNICAL INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400570001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na.
tional Defence. of the United Staten, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 703 and 794, of the TT.S, Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contennpe
to or receipt by an unauthori?sd person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited,
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Poland
REPORT
SUBJECT Commercial Center of the Electrotechni? DATE DISTR.
cal Industry
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25 September 1953
1e At the beginning of 1951 the Commercial Center of the Electrotsohnical. Industry was
transferred from the Ministry of Heavy Industry to the newly established Ministry of
Electric Power.' The, head office of the Center is in Warsaw, and its branches are
located at Cracow, Lodz, Poznan, Szczecin (Stettin), Katowice, and Wroclaw (Breslau).
Each branch has agencies in the smaller towns.
2e The Center is responsible for coordinating and marketing electrotechhical materials:
a. All eleatrotechnical materials, both light and heavy, go the the Center for
distribution.
be All organizations and institutions send a list of their requirements to the
Center, which then allocates the materials available.
a. From 60 to 70 per cent of eleetrotechnicai ?3quipment goes to the army and
to the government, with priority to the former.
d. Production plans for the coming year are worked out in December by calcu-
lating and balancing local and state requirements against production figures
of the year ending.
e. It is not known definitely if the Center is responsible for stockpiling;
however, from 33 to 40 per cent of electrctechnical equipment is held in
permanent reserve.
3. Officers of the Center do not serve as consultants to industrial concerns.
4.
Profit on small items is fixed at 32 to 33 per cent and at 25 to 30 per cent on large
items.
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5. The average monthly turnover at the Wroclaw branch in 1950 was from three hundred
million to four hundred million zloty
6. Electrotechnidal.... materials are Imported from Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and
occasionally the USSR. Elektrim is the export company for goods made in Poland,
and Varimex is the import company for goods originating in the Eastern bloc
countriesol
7e A Polish army colonel (name urknown,l ) is permanently stationed
at Wroclaw to control the allocations eleec tutee' ica'l materials to the Polish
army and to Soviet units stationed in Poland,,
8. The following personalities are knowna
a. Szymon Pinozewski was head of the 'technical department of the Wroclaw
branch up to the end of 1950,
Stefan Tin is head of the administrative department of the Wroclaw branch.
ICommentel
e r as an organization for the import of eleatrotechanioaZ aquipment and
Varimex as,an organization for the import and export of miscellaneous articles
from amber and cork to laboratory equipment.
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