CZECHOSLOVAK IMPORTS OF BALL BEARINGS AND MACHINERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003100140004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO.51-4A
SEPT.1948
CLASSIFICATION
Approved For R 0 l
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czeohoslovakia
SUBJECT E zechoslovak Imports of Ball
Bearings and ;Machinery
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF IN
THIS DOCIJM N CO'HYATNSYNFORAMAiiON A FE'CTING THE itAilONAt}DEFENSE
OFTH (rni1S SJAiES fTHTN iFT MEAAfA(#-OF'7T1E E'SPIOHAdE ACT 30
U.S. .C., 91' AND 52, AS AMENDER. iTs 7RAN5T1 YSSiON`DR'FHERE6`E'CAiTRN
OF (TSCONTENTS TN ANY ii`IANN):.R TO AN USJAUTNORiZtD PERSON IS PRO-
711BITED EYLA)N- ISEPRODUCTfON OF THIS YI I1S TS1TR$(TIBITER.
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25X1 1, At the present moment, ball beari;Igs are more urgently required by Czecho
Slovakia than any other article. Home production is practically non-existent,
and although hard currency is Wade= available for the purchase of ball beari.ns
as a priority article, it is not possible to meet the country's requirements.
2. Czechoslovakia has purchased a nuzIber of large industrial plants for the iron
25X1 and machine industries but although these plants have already
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To compensate for this lack of .r:hinery, a sum of 2 800 dollars was recently
allocated for the purpose of buying working drawing s
25X1 It is considered unlikely that th.e e drawings are purchased darectly, since
the amount is believed to have been made available
25X1 It is stated that the export em Iargo has been circum-
vene . by these purchases, which have supplied the satellite
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It is also reported that corking rira,wings of lar-. e oxy ' en plants ?estined for
Czechoslovak steel ,.corks and even. larger Soviet steel works have been obtained
t h e : s e metas.
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