PRODUCTION PLANS FOR MOTOR VEHICLE TIRES IN 1954/1955

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004500670003-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Production Plans for Motor Vehicle Tires
in 1954/1955
DATE OF INFO.
This material contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.B.C. Seca. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person to prohibited
by law.
REPORT
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
l.- At a conference held on 22 April 1954 in the East German Ministry of Heavy
Industry, HV Kunststoffe,.it was scheduled to:produce 1,000,000 motor vehicle
tires in 1955. Provided that sufficient motley for investments can be made
available)theproduction is-to be increased to 1,200,000 motor vehicle tires.
Despite this increase in production, however, it will not be possible to cover
the demand which is estimated at a total of 1,900,000 tires for 1954.
2. Since, in 1954, the East German tire production will fall short of the demand
by 500,000 tires, it was resolved at the above-mentioned conference to import
200,000 tires of all kinds-from Czechoslovakia provided that sufficient money
can be made available.
3. It is believed that East Germany will not be able to increase the production
capacity of her tire plants before the and of 1954. The plan of erecting a
new tire plant with an annual capacity of 250,000 tires was abandoned.
Instead, the existing tire, plants were to be expanded to produce an additional
output of 250,000 tires over and above the 1954 production. However, on 26
April, the Council of Ministers refused to grant the 12,000,000 eastmarks
required for the expansion. Thus, in 1955, the tire production in East Germany
will fall short of the demand by a total of 950,000 tires.
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