THE HOFHERR - SCHRANTZ - CLAYTON - SHUTTLEWORTH FIRM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300720003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 20, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Via Lug Settembrint,
zr a "?rze - i . n?}~? 1a3r .SI tt .error ~. firm, 24
a:.. a:?',. is a branch of the Hungarian firm 111K,l and is engaged in selling
~kt4rn - .chinrry aid tractors In Italy.
i'ollouing personnel are connected '4th the 11ofherrr-Schrantz-Clayton
:-iario boneschi: P'resideent,, domiciled in Milan at 16 Corso Porta
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a, ,ipriano zav,, IPM: Managing director, domiciled at 12 Via Brerap
'4?lan J and
iorgio Roar Attorney, born in dapent on 25 x1arc,i 1903, residing
25X1C t 2~, Via Settembrinic, 24i.1an, allegedly a sales office director for
Y he e.= le of agricultural machinery (usually to Italian purchasers) is carried
nit c lay after the machinery has been tested by Hungarian "weperta"se despite
the :;':act that there are Italian workers assigned to the firm who are capable
,of i ispee tirig tht) x chinery. Allegedly the Hungarian workers who come to
ii.1a~?e. Bologna,, anal Rome, are sent;,, not only to check machinery and to take
account of the conanercial activity of the various branches of the Hofherr
Scf raa.ntz-Clayton huttleworth firm, but also for purposes of political
prop=aganda. DDuring their sojourn in Bologna, these Hungarians are usual?y?
acco npami by "trusted elements", and almays by a flurgarian named Giuseppe
for 7k, da is le d at 34 Via Venesia,, Farm. Ho k was allegedly dismissed
We ~ .ac Hofherr,.Schr st layto huttlwoorth firm seymml years arc for
re o' of health,, but in realitys, he is sta. in contact with the firaos
atto,r-ney in Milan, the above mentioned Row, a-d is employed as an interpreter.
Thy atixf ~ez~~L ola ~i uz a ay von~wh ., +,I c-lortl~. f irn' has the following branches*.
e . 4 ae~3.aM: Piazza V11I Agosto, established on 6 November 1947 for
o-. r iercs in a,-,,riculti rat m c hirer i and spare pares, with material a
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. - . 4ally impo 'ted fl ow jtl# r ; s' .atered with the Bologna Chamber
., " Cc?merese; > ?30 . ti Y7.ta is n e .s 1 atd four mechanics; in
;,! :ti-ti an there is es AMP= * oAop ,1ocateL at V?.a del Triumvirate, E^.d
she parts w rea
coa a `.Gastelfraneo k ilia (Mode a);
p 9 Aw-& s 65 Vials, Aventine, ma %god by as Sarasini;
0, Michele Mancini e Fiilio, 11 Via` Garibaldi.; and
tti t Edt ndo Michel iri7 Via CotttrNr: ,
S Duna 1925' and is registered in the local Chamber of Commerce as
. voresented in Taranto by Felice Troilo, bore `at San Giorgio, . xeazico
aTsianto) on 10 June 189/6 dc0doiled at 24 Vir Do Cesara, Taranten
'redo is in direct contact with the above-me Toned Row., am he does
.tot kso'v personally an the latter #as never visited 1'srantow
o Ranges?ian citizens are employed by Bosco or Troiloo and all repre.
sentati a of the Flo: or ehrants-C1ayton huttl.eworth firli in the
ilia region are allegedly of national sentiments and oriented toward the
4~ r r a parties.
ce 19 9, the Hof ku-r-Schzents laytonuttloworth firm has'; been
11huttieeorth firm, the C',plorni ccanpatay since 1 January 1951 has bin the
rcl usiv o representative' for the Puglia re pion and deals directly with
he sales office of the Hofherr chrenta-Cla rtox Shuttlewor i firm in
?ol?og " through its agents and representatives in the various provinces
f Southern Italy,
rega to ccew ercial po itracts with the HofhmT-Schrants-Claytor
1 Mongi. . (Catan;wro) on 23 18 8, doviicilbd at 45 Via Piave, Foggia.
In the Provinces of $.rindisi and Lecce, the above-mentioned Bosco uses
:Ise Do NNosza a De Pace firm which has its headquarters at 14 Vials
,, tazione, Taranto, For the Province of Mate1 , Bosco uses the Nicola
roe cci o firm' 5 Corso. 14tzzini, Poteriza, For the' Province of Bari,
': osco us3 s the Vinceam Crean firm, located at f16 Via Vittorio
uol e' Altamuura ( rid 0
;sex 1379, The Foggia bra h is -.directed by" Ottorino Bosco, born
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