OPERATION OF FURFA, STATE-OWNED DISTRIBUTING AGENCY FOR WOOD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011300170007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2006/04/20 : CIA-RDP82-00457R011300170007-5
FORK NO. 51-IAA
FEB 1952
CD NO.
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
Agency for Wood.
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S: ,P..E.T/0ON:T'.ROL - U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
NFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
Hungary
Operation of Ftlrfa, State-owned Distributing
DATE DISTR. 14 April 1952
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITSCONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON 15
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM 15 PROHIBITED.
The Ffirfa State Enterprise for the Distribution of `Wood is a branch office
of the Central. Office for Wood Supply and is located at lea. jcsywZailiua y
ut 18, Budapest. The purpose of Flirfa is to supply Hungarian heavy ande light
industries. State enterprises are supplied through their ministries, while
private persons can ob fain timber only in exceptional cases. Fllrfa supplies
all enterprises belonging to the Ministries of Defense, Heavy Industryy- Light
Industry, Mines axed. Powers and. Agrtculture, which includes state farms as well
as the 'NT.S.Cs.'Y (`Terygazgamgi Sz5vetkezeti Csoport), Cooperative Societies
for Planned Economy. F d:.rfe, supplies Budapest and vicinity, the district between
Danube and Tisza, and Eastern Hungary beyond the Tisza. Fffrfa distributes
the entire production of the local saw-mills as well-as all, imported timber.
Every three mor.tths'the company is notified by the supreme Planning Commission
of the quantity of local. and imported materials available. At the same time
the Supreme Planning Commi.ssios informs the ministries of the quav.tity and
type of materials that would be distributed to the.. Frfa re.ei.ves lists
of all factories needing materials, and concludes delivery contracts with
them which cover three-mj)nth periods.
el.m,, and various v riite woods, including mLaLje and white beech.
2.> Lignimpex, the company thr.Pugh which imports are effected, is located
NAdor u-tca Bud