GOVERNMENT DISTRIBUTION OF BALL BEARINGS TO POLISH PLANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006700490008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 10, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2008/10/03: CIA-RDP80-00810A006700490008-0
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning ,f the Espionage title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized pc. on it, prohibited b, it:c
DATE OF INFO.
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Government Distribution of
Ball Bearings to Polish Plants
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1. The movement of materials (tuch towar-owy) department of the Ministry of the
Machine Industry controls the distribution of ball bearings in Polanao
agencies in Warsaw, Wroclaw (Breslau), Poznan, Lodz, and Stalinogrod ('1-1.e,1 ,1y'
Katowice) are subordinate to tht_s department. The central distribat c otfi e
(Biuro Zbytu Lozysk Tocznych) is located at 47 Krakowskie Przedmiesc.ie Stns;-',.,
Warsaw, and is directed by Pochrzest (fnu),
2. Since there is a grave shortage of industrial ball hearings n.e istr
agencies allocate them to plants on a monthly basis only w .th the
that surplus bearings must be sold back to the nearest agenr y, Ea.:ch
must submit a monthly list of ball bearing stocks to the ^entcal
office in order to receive its allocation for the suc eeding Tr_t:.rz',r o
3. Each agency sorts and fixes the pr i >e. of the returned bearings in
whether they are new, used, in need of repair, or for scrap. Altho.q-i
price of ball bearings may vary from I zloty to 7,000 zlotys? its pir,cis-
price, which is per unit, is generally five times higher t. an :its
price, which is according to weight.
4, The Wroclaw agency, which is located on Pierwszego Maja Street, has
quota of if tons of ball bearings. Each month the agency dispatches;
equipped with two armed policemen co collect the ball bearngs from ut/
factories. There are four specialists at Wroclaw to examine the r'etiurne.
bearings,
5, In January 1955 a deficit exceeding 1,6 million zlotys was d: seoaered. at
Wroclaw agency, It is believed that the bearings, mostly Lif t e type fa(
or smelting, were stolen by the specialists and porters In spite of the
controls.
6. Although Poland oduces some low-grade bearings at Krasn k , she is upon imports for her supply.
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