DEVELOPMENTS IN THE GERMAN PROPERTIES DIVISION OF USIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700500006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO. 81.4A
KEPT, 1848
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~u4~ng t~e o~mership status of the Pinkafeld-Szombathe~,y railroad in
~enlan.d; particularly .that -part of the line between Pinka,feld. and t~iener=.
eu~stadt,, sower Austria, ? This was formerly a .privately- owned railroad line `~'
t~during the Nazi reg3.ae, the Austrian portion of the railroad was pur-
~~~d by the German_ Reichsbahn ~P~r .4~O,,ooO Reichsmarks and is now con-
~idered 100Tpercent Germt~n property by the Soviets, WA is also studying
the ownership status_of the right-of-way along the Vienna-Potter~dorf-Wiener
eustadt railroad, xhictz was purchased by the- German ~Reiehsbahn ni1939 for
~50t-000 F~echsmaxka, T is railroad was originally constructed to relieve the
heavy' traffic load cared on the main southern r?ute to Italy,
on 2 ~darCt~~ ~91i.q. Lt. ~ol. BORISaV of the Soviet: Ri~snaral:i nnQ T)~ ui e;,,,, ~,, ~t,;.
totes 1~perial sent ttae German Propertf:es Department a list of four firm
Qesterreichischc Brawn-Eoveri Werke A.G,_; C. Schember & Soehne, Brueckenwaa~en
grid bd~isc~inet~f`abri~en A.G, in Atzgersdor~; Semperit Gur~uniwerke A,G, in Wimpessing`
anal ~te~errr~ehl P~pierfabriks and Verlags A.G., Vienna I, $oersegasse 11., BQRISOV~s
directive xec~ues ed that two questions be answered-about eaoh firm.. These dues--
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ons covered de
ails as to the firms shareholders in 19~.5.and the standpoint
~~' the Austrian `uovex?nment on the Austria~,.,ership status o_f Basch f,ir~, Ac-
~c~rding t~~ sour:e, the Berman i?roperties Department has neverbefore bean asked:,.
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o determ.i tie ~ostion taken by
the Austrian Goverrm~ent on the status of`
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~trian I?~nership. During the second weak of tde,rch 1~q~9, a new set of inquiries
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