METALIMPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014700020006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 30, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

FEB 1952 ~l-'AAA
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Metalimpor
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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 O F ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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25X1 1. Metalimport, a state enterprise under the control of the Ministry of
Foreign Trade, is located on the premises of the postal customs
house (Varna Postei) in Bucharest. It has a staff of 230 employees,
2, The General' Manager of Metalimport is Ion Muntranu, a former worker
and the Assistant Manager is an engineer named Serban. The technical
adviser of Metalimport is Erna Bruch,
CLASSIFICATION SECRET
Metalimport deals with the import of iron, tin plate, wire, railroad,
and streetcar rails, imported mostly from the USSR, but also in small
quantities from Hungary,, Czechoslovakia, the United Kingdom, France,
Italy and Switzerland.
Metalimport supplies all state enterprises as well as the ITB (Bucha-
rest Streetcars), the IPEIL (Enterprises for the Exploitation and
Industrialization of Wood), and other enterprises, The Department
for Supply and Distribution of the Ministry of Metallurgy and Chemical
Industry serves as intermediary between the company and its customers.
The daily turnover varies between 50 and 100 million lei. Invoices.
to a total of six or seven hundred million lei are submitted to the
State Bank per month,
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