SOVIET REQUEST FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STATISTICS IN THE DISTRICTS OF ST. POELTEN AND MELK, LOWER AUSTRIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200130001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 29, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Austria/USSR DATE DISTR. 31 Dec 1948
SUBJECT Soviet Request for Economic and Social NO. OF PAGES 2
Statistics in the Districts of St. Poelten
and Melk, Lower Austria r k
PLACE Document No. /NO. OF ENCLS.
ACQUIRED X` C`, 1 (LISTED BELOW)
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c SUPPLEMENT TO
1. On 29 November 1948, Captain NIKOLAEVSKI of the Soviet City Headquarters in
St. Poelten, Lower Austria, summoned an official of the municipal govern-
ment and requested that the following information about the City of St. Poelten
be submitted to the Soviet City Headquarters by 10 December 1948. The in-
formation requested is to be gathered by the St. Poelten Bundespolizeikommissariat.
a. A list of all business enterprises employing more than six persons,
showing in each case the kind of concern, where raw materials are
procured, and to whom products are sold. If possible, pictures of the
business establishments are to be submitted.
b. Plan of the City of St. Poelten, 30 x 40 cm.
c. Photographs of bridges, railroad stations, and large buildings in
St. Poelten.
d. Population figures, showing number of men and women, and number of
children up to 18 years of age.
e. Number and kind of schools, including number of students in each school,
it, List of athletic associations, with number of members in each association,,
..a-and name and address of the president.
g. Inventory of livestock, showing number of horses, cattle, sheep, and wine,
h. List of Soviet-controlled property (USIA firms) in St. Poelten.
i. Number of police sub-stations, number of men in each, and area covered.
J. Police armament.
k. Number of licensed vehicles, including trucks, passenger cars, buses,
tractors
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and motorcycles without sidecars.
Number of former National Socialists, major and minor. Number now ems..
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m. Numbyr of war criminals, showing those who have been tried and
whohave not been tried.
o. Food stocks and storage places.
p. Grain fields; location and kind of grain grown. Location of meddwwe?
Fields and meadows are to be listed separately for 1948 and 1949.
q. Number of farms, showing which are over or under 50 hectares.
r. Number of electric power stations and their capacity in kilowatt hours.
Photographs are also to be submitted.
Hydr?"d*Vbc stations; location, capacity, and photographs.
t. Communications networks; telephone, telegraph, telautograph, and radio.
u. Number of street-cleaning machines, particularly equipment for snow
removal.
Number and location of forest ranger stations (Foersterei)#
w. List of concerns administered by government-appointed commissioners,
and the names and addresses of the commissioners.
x. Location of mills, dairies, and granaries.
2. Similar instructions were also received from Soviet authorities by the
Bezirkshauptmann of St. Poelten and the Bezirkshauptmann of Melk.
Source points out that in the past Soviet authorities have never demanded
such comprehensive statistics at one time; t e is-the first time they have
requested photographs of factories and hyd edbc plants, and also their
first request for statistics on livestock. ource interprets this series of
questions as an indication that the Soviets are planning to tighten their
control in Lower Austria.
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