USIA RAW MATERIAL PROGRAM AND SOWJETISCHE MINERALOSLVERWALTUNG PURCHASES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200180003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 9, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REMIT CD NO.
COUNTRY Austria/Switaerland
SUBJECT U5IA Raw t;at,rftl Program and Sowjetisc
25X1 X6 141neraloelvert turag Purchases
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFO. 9 December 1945
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DATE DISTR. 22 December 1948
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1. The USIA Buyinv and selling office under 0sipov is at present develoring
a 12,000,000 dollar program for the purchase of raw materials for USIA,-
controlled finis. Krause & Co. , Vienna I, former3y associated with Degos,
win handle the transaction. Engineer Alexander Fuchs, a representative
of Krause & Co. and consultant to the Austrian Ministry of Tvade, will
have a leading; role in this transaction.
to i t Hermann Krause & Co., Vienna I, Neutorgasse 12, is a
textile fire which ins controlled tor Dubik and Schisohka of the Degos
comr+aiV until their arrost by the Soviets in September 1948.)
2. Sov etische Mineraloelverwaltung (31V) is atter,pting, to rarahase 6,000,000
dollars S,rth of drilling nachinery and pines on a compensation basis in
exchange for scrap ata rate of 1P3O per ton. It is not known whether the
compensation scrap is captured enemy material. The contemplated purchase
includes 2,000 tone of i . Nepotiationn are in progress xdth the Swiss
firm Lirtor & Coo C t z Possibly Limor S. A. , Itport.-Export,
Bahnhofstraane 7a, ~urioh arhioh plans to obtain the machinery and pipe
from Bizonla. Fuchs will also have a hand in this transaction.
2Mgntt On the basis of the abore figures, an extraordinary amount
o scrap would be involved; it is believed that. possib3y the proposed pay-
meat will not be entirely in scrap.)
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