IMPORT OF CARS AND OTHER COMMODITIES BY METALIMPORT AND TECHNOIMPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008800310012-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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f lECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL TELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
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26 October
951
SUBJECT
Import of Cars and Other Commodities by Metalimport
and Technoimport
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1, Metalimport is, officially in charge of all car imports for Rumania, but
in'fact it imports cars from Czechoslovakia only. Imports from the USSR
are handled by Technoimport (see below) and American cars are bought with
secret funds, without the partidipation,of any import company. In May
1951 a trade mission was $Lnt to Czechoslovakia to arrange for the purchase
of Skoda 1101 cars for the use of'the Rumanian Army,
2. Technoimport originated from the former German firm Motorex, which was
at first taken over by the Soviets and later released by them, and handed
over to the Rumanians, It is located in Bucharest on Boulevard N. Balcescu
No. 22 in the building of the former Sun Company, Its General Manager
is a Russian by the name of Degen. Car imports from the USSR are handled
by Technoimport, which was for some time a Soviet. firm and has the nece s
sary connections there,
Automobile spare parts
Telephone exchanges
Surgical instruments
Microscopes
Binoculars
.Cameras
Typewriters
Calculating machines
Duplicating mathines
'Navigation instruments
Slide rules, compasses
Instruments for testing the hardness
of steel, covering quality of paint,
resistance of leather.
Chemical and pharmaceutical products
Russian penicillin
Prismatic lathes.
3.,. In addition to Soviet cars the following articles are imported by Technoimport:
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