BAUXITE SHIPMENTS TO THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006200680002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 21, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
S. -C-R-E-T
NOFORN
COUNTRY Hungar, y
SUBJECT Bauxite Shipments to the USSR
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
bylaw.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 21 March 1955
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
25X1
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In August and September 195 4., the loading of bauxite at Komdxvm harbor
for shipment to the USSR via the Danube amounted to approximately 809000
tons per month,
20 As of October 1954, approximately 120 - 130 carloads of bauxite are con-
signed daily by rail from the bauxite loading ramp in KOMAXO harbor,,
Transloading work is In progress day and night in three shifts., each of 100 -
120 men. The work is controlled by a permanent Soviet Commission located
at the harbor.
3.
The Soviet authorities are demanding still larger deliveries of bauxite
from the Hungarians. As this will affect the load capacity of shipping,
a series of new freight barges is to be built exclusively for the trans-
port of bauxite to the USSR,
S -E-C -R-E-T
NOFORN
0
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