RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SOVIET OIL ADMINSTRATION (SMV)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004800280002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 15, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION r
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/05 :,CIA-1RDP82-00457R004800280002-4
???
Immo 4
BNFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Aust. rizi/ussn
SUBJECT Recent Devoloments in the
CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 15 MAY
CONFIDENT/AL No. OF PAGES 5
Soviet Oil Administration (sig) ,
SC
50X1
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
50X1 ?
-H UM
50X1
tummiamarmamumuommmemmovmwmmmommumn
of ins CUM CUTP11 =POI rue LUDIPITIO OD na nnossos Act 60
0.8.C.. St 400 02.40 601111010. Dl TEUCEINISCION 00 ITII PEVELATIOU
07 ITS COMM= In POT CAPHEO TO AR 011ACTIP021721. PIIT/S00 IP POO.
RIDITILD GT LAIL REPEODUCI1010 OP TOLD POPO IS POOKINITID.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFI50X1 -HUM
SIN Purchasing Office
1,
Developments of the past two weeks have revealed SMV plans to enlarge the Pur-
chasing Office and to increase its control over the procurement of equipment
and raw materials for the entire SMV complex. Some 'Imo in March or April When
the SMV will move most of its Vienna officam Y.nto the A. Pori. A.G. building, the
Purchasing Office will become the principrzt ay7 disbursing office.*(1) Meanwhile
'Purchasing Office employess are working on a plan scheduling purchases for the
entire year of 1950. In contrast to recent months when this office operated on
such a narrow financial margin that it was, on occasion, forced to suspend pay-
ment of its employees' salaries, the SW now maintains a minimum balance of
1,000A0L, schillings in the Purchasing Office account at the Soviet Military
Bank .I During the past two weeks., when the Purchasing Office paid out con,- 50X1-H UM
siderable sums for an unusually large volume of costly purchases, additional
funds Imre promptly released to restore this balance.
2. In line with those developments, SMV Headquarters has directed SMV purchasing
agents to buy USIA products regardless of the expenses involved; purchases from
non-USIA firms will be authorized only when USIA cannot fulfill SO requirements.
At the same time, Rusin, director of the SMV Purchasing Office, has ordered SMV
purchasing agents to submit at least two separate cost estimates from prospective
suppliers before completing a transaction. To implement this procedure, he has
established a price analysis unit within the SMV Purchasing Office:
3. Kusin has also instituted a weekly staff meeting which all Purchasing Office
exploynes are now required to ,attend. Race- :ly during one of these meetings
Kusin informed his subordinates that be has been studying the problem of unload-
ing stocks of unsalable items which have been held in SMV warehouses for over a
year. As a solution to this problem, he stated, he is no considering paying
them in allocations of these items equal in value to one-half of their present
salaries,
?-c
1
CLASSIFICATION
STATE ati x NAVY
NSRB
ARMY AIR_A FBI
r#,K
Dace
, lass.
Ainha
911311110N
CONFIDENTIAL
This This document is hereby regraded tat
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from MO
Director of Central Intelligent-. to Ltnt
Archivist of the United StaLes.
Next Review Date: 2008
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R004800280002-4
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R004800280002-4
CEUTRAL 17T3LLIGLUCE AG:UGY
SKV Purchases
4, Recently, the 3NV Purchasing Office ordered rotary am' nourterfluah drill
e:Le, valued at a minimum of 20,000.1000 schillings from the USIA firm, Mannes-
mann Trauzl A.G., and 300,000 schillingsmnith of German-made electric motors
for the Matzen oil field area from Eduard TrotzmUller, Vienna VI, Stumper-
gasse 7,
5. The AV has also purchased an electric lighting unit, which is mounted on a.
five-ton trailer, from a -former German military warehouse in Langenzersdorf,
where several units of this type and 15 mobile wireless units (Funkwagen)
are now stored. The SMV Purchasing Office allegedly paid 80,000 schillings
for this purchase to a USSR account at the Soviet Military Bank, This unit
will be overhauled at the G, Rumpel A.G. plant in Siebenhirten before being
sent to Matzen.
6. During the week of 13 February 1950 the 51V Purchasing Office made cash pay-
ments for the following purchases:
Firm Item Purchased,
"Canada" Tiefbohrgertite und SpitzfAnger (sic)
Naschinenfabrik G.m.b.H.
one
Payment in Schilling!
35,92550
Casing head and high-pressure
bow (Hochdruckbogen) 17.750.00
SKI' G.m:b.H, Bearings 227.25
K. J. Baldauf Building material 82,670.00
Cement 31,546.50
Aga-nark.? A.G. Oxygen
34,246.95
Autohaus-Urania I Dodge automobile
15,000,00
Josef Altschul Electrical material 2,916.00
iongracz & Bock A.G. Distilling tubes 26,04686
W. J. Rohrbeck's Nachfolger Laboratory materials,
B5hler Gebr. & Co. A.G. Steel 1::::::
.Richard Klinger Brake platforms I/ 22,750.00
Donau Chemie A.G. Payment on account 100,000.00
Various Vienna firms derk ciothess rubber boots, shoes 18,965.70
Mazur Rlikert*(3) Rubber-covered cable 196170po
Schtiffer& Budenberg G.m.b.H. 25 manometers t,/- 2,785.00
Brown7Boveri A.G; 28 single-phase transformers 8s960.00
Friedrich Reichmann's Hecht.
10 flat filters (Breitfilter)
Kabel- u, Drahtverke A.G. 600 kilograms of wire
Siemens-Schuckert One single-phase transformer
"Standard" Ges. fuer Techn.
Artikel Rubber materials
Holzbauwerk Franz Havlicek 400d
? 2,335.00
3,602.61
19,250.00
10,788.14
27,056.32
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/05 : CIA-RDP82-00457R004800280002-4
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R004800280002-4
? SECRET
Firm
Schoeller-Bleckmenn
CMITRAL It.TELLIGMICE VETICY
- 3 -
Item Pui:ihased
Steel
Payment in Schillings
12,822,03
7. .The following cash payments were made clurin1 the week of 20 February 1950:
Sitoens-;Halske Triangle Switches 15,720.00
Gustav Zawrzel K.G. Electrical medIrial 60639.50
Draht-u, Drahtwaren Handels.G.m,b,H, Cable 69D909,14
&schen & Co. . Metal for boari...1,8 40151.60
St. Karasek & Co. Beds 1,760,00
Josef Altschul Electric motors ? 3,439.00
Hrixlegg Montanwerke G.m.b.H. Heavy spar 10,614,00
"Chemia" Chemikalien G.m.b.H. Caustic soda 4,542,38
Othmar Graf Aichelburg vorm.
Lederer & Nessenyi Fireproof brick
Franz Kohmaier Chains
Seilerwaren-Handols G.m.b.H. 15000 meters of rope
?
Holzbauwerk Franz- Havlicek Wood
H8nig*(4) Cable
,Msnnesmann-Trauzl A.G. Sheet metal
Wiener Kabel u. Metallwerke A.G. Cable
St. Egydyer Eisen-und Stahlindustrie Wire
Gabon, .
Cable ?
Friedrich Weichmann's Nachf. G.m.b.H. Radiators (Breitstrahler)
Vinzenz Wagner Paint ?
USIA Wire
Gas pipes
Kellner & Kunz Tools
"Standard" Ges. fuer Mahn.
'Artikel Fan belts
Donau Chemie A,G. Sulfuric acid
Hydrochloric acid
Autohaus-Urania One trailer
Osram G.m.b.H. Electric light bulbs
Pleiner*(5) Tieflader !sic) ?
Centraltruckerei Office supplies
Guido Rttgers ? Impregnating work
3,160.42
7.719.20
15,730.00
118,9/2.42
5,510.40
1,660.00
12,264-17
66,966.00
60306.60
2.382028
8,532,00
35,217 6S
60,099J10
11.770 97
26,912.13
100,0O0.00
4,077.04
5,000,00
7,226.30
27,000-00
1,215,00
2,239.40
? SECRET-
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R004800280002-4
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R004800280002-4
Oalallta
?:,
Firm
.R, J. Baldauf
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
- 4 -
.Items Phrchased taaspt in .5chillings
Building material
"Canada" Tiefbohrgerlite
und Maschinenfabrik G.m.b.H. Casing head
Vienna firms Mark clothing
92,945.47
54,651,00
23,868.00
Flpe Imported from the USSR
8. On 27 February 1950, 11 carloads containing 182,460 kilograms of pipe arrived
in Vienna from the Soviet Union. Shortly after Georgyevsky,.representative
of USIA's Central Commercial Bureau, accepted this shipment from the railroad
on behalf of the SMV Central Narehouse in Neusiedl, all of these.freight cars
were suddenly commandeered by about 30 Soviet soldiers. Soviet military
authorities in Vienna have advised the 31.1V that this shipment cannot be removed
from Vienna railroad yards until further notice. SMV officials are rather
disturbed by this intervention on the part of the military because only a few
days before this episode, DDSG representatUes in Vienna advised them that the
Soviets have 3topped and are now holding/iiarges loaded with about 10,000 tons
of pipe in Budapest.
Import Shipments and Other Deliveries to the SUV
9. The following items, were delivered to the SMV Central Warehouse in Neusiedl
tnikayaa al) arta 27 Fel7ro:lry 1950;
::ars of hydrochloric acid from Budapest
7 carloads of Diesel fuel from the Voesendorf refinery_
2 carloads of pipe shipped by Metrans from Czechoslovakia.
shipped
2 carloads containing 46,210 kilograms of pipe/from the Soviet Union
via Greece.
1 carload containing 16 pieces of 10 3/4 inch x 10.2 millimeter drill
pipe, weighing a total of 139750 kilograms and having a combined
length of 19238 meters, and 1 carload containing 15 pieces of'the
same type of pipe, neighing a total of 11,960 kilogram and having
a combined length of 170.38 meters, EY041 Germany
Refinkg
10, The SMV has temporarily, suspended production at the Nova-Schvechat refinery
which is now being renovated and repaired by G. Rumpel A.G. and the 50 Sunda'
ing Department (Bau-und Montage AbteilUng),
11. SMV Headquarters recently ordered the Voesendorf refinery to deliver 16 to 17
tank cars of Diesel fuel per neek to the SMV Central Narehouse in Neusiedl.
Judging from the size of this order it seems likely that the SMV may have
stepped up production at the Voesendorf refinery in order to fulfill current
commitments of the Nova-Schwechat plant.
12 Recently, SMV Headquarters orCered SMV railroad despatchers to discontinue
sending tank cars to Budapest to pick up sulfuric acid..
SHV Personnel
13, In addition to Mittelmann's replacement, Kacerovsky, a rather
member of the SMV Purchasing Office, Kusin is still trying to
new purchaaing agents,*(5) ?
genial new
recruit two
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R004800280002-4
50X1
ettlerer."M
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R004800280002-4
CMITRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
11)
Cemment: The SMV purchased the A. Porr A.G. buildina on Getrei markt
in-Vioana I during the first part of December 1949.
*(3)
*(it)
*(5)
Comment; It is possible refers to Richard Mazur, a firm deal?
ing in electrical equipment and supplies located at Vienna III, Hintzerstrasse 5.
Mage.ur IMOcert is net listed in the 1950 Handels Compass, the 1949 Industrie Comp-
peas, or the 1949 Vienna telephone directory,
Commen! Honig may be identical with Ludwig Hdnig? Vienna XII, GrUnberg?
tasse 50
ComMent: The Pleiner firm cannot be accurately identified in available
re_erence material.
Comment:
successor a former USIA engineer,
res.1.ded in the USSR for seVeral years.
SECRET,
Mittelmannts
allegedly 'a?orn in Austria and
50X1
50X1-HUM
? 50X1
50X1-HUM
50X1-HUM
50X1-HUM
? 50X1 -H UM
?50X1 -HUM
50X1 -HUM
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/05 : CIA-RDP82-00457R004800280002-4