STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY'
INFORMATION REPOR
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Structure and Organization of the Ministry of NO. OF PAGES 4
Foreign Trade
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50X1 The organization of the Ninistr of Foreign Trade is pre?
sented on the enclosed chart Lnclosureg.
2. The Ministry of Foreign Trade is now considered to be under
"top security measures", following the lead of the Ministries
of National Security, National Defense, Foreign Affairs, and
the State Bureau for Planning.
There is no Cabinet in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, which
is usually composed of the Minister and the Deputy Ministers.
The Cabinet in the Ministry, abolished in 1949, was made up
of the so?called "inner circle" of officials close to the
Minister and also various specialized secretaries. The
secretaries were headed by Dr Rudolf Margolius, whose title
was "Chief of the Cabinet". (He later became Fourth Deputy
Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Trade.) A
At present, there are no cabinets in any of the ministries.
The Ministry receives the foreign trade plan from the State
Planning Bureau and decides how this plan will be carried out
The general directions to be followed are issued by the
Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Communist
Party organization in the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Al].
appointments and transfers among the employees must be
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apprcend by tica Ceara 7ection of the Ministry and by the
Cadre Department en' the Central Committee of the Cenmunist
Party. Only the Ministers and general managers of the
nationalized industries are under the direct control and
supervision of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party. Other governmental and industrial
organizations are controlled by the regional or district
committees of the Communist Party.
5. The Ministry has a s PniAl miriy dezk headed by 500
iBr Frantisek Cada. A The majority of papers
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arc classified "con aential- and many others as "secret".
Foreign newspapers are permitted to be read by employees
of the respective country desks, but not by the employees
of any other desk. These newspapers are considered con-
fidential and are locked in safes After working hours.
6. The Chief of the Cadre Department is one of the most important
officials in the Ministry of Foreign Trade. He is in direct
contact with the Ministry of National Security and with the
Cadre Department of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party. His department is responsible for all personnel,
collects detailed information about each person in the Ministry,
and has the responsibility for sending Ministry employees
abroad. The information which is constantly collected on
each employee is filed in triplicate: one copy remains in
the confidential files of the Cadre Department of the Ministry
of Foreign Trade; a second copy is sent toothe Central
Secretariat of the Communist Party;- and the third copy is
sent to the Ministry of National Security. This information
follows the individual throughout his period of employment.
7. There is a dual control within the Foreign Trade Ministry:
a) the expert control of superiors exercised through normal
channels, and b) the control of the Communist Party organiza-
tion within the Ministry.
8. The organization of the Communist Party at the Ministry falls
within the jurisdiction of the district Secretariat of the
Communist Party, located at 3 Na Florenei in Prague; however,
as an organization of a central government office, it is
supervised directly by the Secretariat of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party. A special member of the
Secretariat which deals with the affairs of the Ministry
of Foreign Trade is Lubomir Sochor. He is in constant and
direct contact with Tamchyna gee paragraph 27 but even
more so with the Minister and other leading peraenalitie
in the Ministry. His supervisory functions are not concerned
with organizational details pertaining to the Communist
Party in the Ministry, but only with the shaping cf foreign
trade policies. The Communist Party organization in otter
ministries in Czechoslovakia is of the same pattern as in
the Ministry of Foreign Trade.
9. communist Party officials often occupy unimportant positions
In the Ministry but are obliged to carry out Party foneeinns
in addition to their normal official duties. The Comuniet
Party organization in the Ministry of 5ereigi Tralo con-
sists of five Section Organizationa. The Sec clee enaanizat en
in turn consists of six or' more "ten-team" Each Section
Organization has a chaitnel, a leader of the "tenateavie a
"culture-propaganda zaitator" and two other merSers, Party
due are paid by tare .nee' t o or- Sectioe Oee,enIzatian.
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there were about 636-650 employees at the
Ministry. -FroM:the entire stateforeign trade organization,
4600-had'to1eave for industry; this included the monopoly
comptiniet-working'in foreign trade. The entire employment
in*fordigh trade ptiot to the purges was 12 thousand.
From now oP, emplOyees in foreign trade organizations may be
recruited only among "worker& cadres", now being trained
at the-Workers School.for Foreign Trade in Opava, Northern
Moravia.
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and his Secretariat
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3 Deputy Minister (temp)
Richard Dvorak
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Bulgaria
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Switzerland
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