RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SOVIET OIL ADMINISTRATION (SMV)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004100460002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 24, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

v~ ma 19 CI. ASSIFICATION / IS 25X1 A
Austria/U!' R CONFIDENTIAL DATE DISTR. 24 JAN 50
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO,
'Sc. Recent Develornenbin the Soviet
Oil A-?-'inistration $i1u )
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFO.
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Dismantlin and Transfer of Ec}uipraent
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REPORT NO.
?1,, It is now clear that the SMV is liquidating the main Lobau warehouse and that
.the Konti-Lager at Lobau will be retained,,* Large quantities of materials,in-
eluding eight carloads of hair felts have been transferred from the main Lobau
warehouse,and one carload of iron construction parts, weighing a total of
14,120 kilograms, from the Voesendorf refinery to the Konti-Lager,. Fifty tons
of a reoerve supply which has been hold in the main Lobau :.arehousc
for some time, have been transferred to the SMV warehouse at Wifo-Lobau:.,
2., SMV officials have directed that all equipment aria materials removed from
AEG-Union warehouses and other installations in Stadlau, Vienna XXII9 after
28 November 1949 nill be sent to Prottes in the tratzen oil field area, where
large storage facilities have been established.**
3, Last week, USIA delivered to the SMV four carloads of various sizes of pipe,,
which it allegedly had imported from Eastern Germany. Contrary to USIAOs
usual: shipping procedures, JuschAneschtrans did not handle this transfer.
SMV employees noted with some surprise that MITTEL ANN, SMV purchasing official,
burned all documents pertaining to this pipe shipment when it was received,
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4. During the past week the SMV received the follooying import shipments from the
Soviet Union, Hungary, and Italy:
5 carloads of iron pipe from the Karl Liebknecht firi Dneprovsk ****, and
3 carloads of iron pipe from the Andreyeva metallurgical plant, Taganrog,
USSR.
Total weight of these shipments was 162,930 kilograms.
1 tank car containing 9,850 kilograms of hydrochloric acid from Buda-
pest, Hungary,y'-' *
14 carloads containing 5,040 sacks of barite, weighing a total of
258,890 kilograms, from the Salbar Company, Lecco Italy.
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9., MITTS L4NV, S. V purchasing official, has informed his colleagues that he is
preparing to return to the Soviet Union in the very near future, In recent
weeks he has made numerous purchases from which he derives a commission
averaging five to eight percent -Per purchaser,
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Comment: Accordin to a copy
25X1 X g p~ of an original SAY document, M1TTEi,iANNv
not i1T V[AN,is -the correct spelling,;
Co*~nentz This soon, to ba an abbreviation of Dnepropetrovsk, where
25X1X a steel plant of that nave his been retorted,
('mmnt- This shipment of hs c,
lot{ c acid probably came from Hungaria
25X1 X Chc:rEti.scl~reweglse, Budapest9
st, wen 25X1 A
25X1 X -.?-w3--- reported that Traunstein-Vertrieb is a
cover, name for a group of biackmarketeers who specialize in the sale of ball
bearings smuggled from Germany,
Corrunant: The SMV probably purchased 25X1X Irste 4esterreichische .daschinglasi.ndustrze window glass from the USSA~cantroll al
n , B. ttnn am Gebirge