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sergne + bee aie - hp gp eeetl seen5 néa & SMai. group i i 7 ' WEN: ame -l- NY 2100-94061 On March 27, 1950, Confidential Informant T-14, of known re~- Uability, stated that while he was on Officers! Reserve Duty in the Soviet Arny, he was Executive Vice-President of QTANKO ~ IMPORT, and by the end of dat 1933, he had completed tha job to which ‘he had been assigned. He was then appointed president of {AUTO-NOTO-EXPORT in January, 1934. He described the latter as a Soviet corporation formed by the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade for the export of automobiles, motors, and airplanes. The export of automobiles was quite open and legal. The corporation also dealt in the ex~ port of armament transactions, which was its illegal trade. He said formerly the Soviet Government excorted armaments for either money or under a lend- leasa arrangement by each of three ministries, namely, War Ministry, Ministry of Industry, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Each of these three ministries = nn Ve h h + ovr, + cal ‘wor, = wns GXporse of armament Se It was decided by the Politboro about the end of 1933 to combine the functions of these three ministries in one organization and place them under the Ministry of Foreign Tradé, This informant said that in the Mnistry of Foreign Trade, there was an export trust, one bureau of which was called Auto-Moto-Exporte To give a legal cover to the sale or lend—lease, two main branches were formede One was calledduto-Kontora to continue the legal trade. The other was calledNYoto~Kontora, into which all the secret trade surrounding Poa e Yat or et ht on fee thea thras anther min riac iad a hh al +h - nrme wry wesc 7” 4 Vue CAMMY YL allo MpteM Boh AA Wd o 1c an Wav Ce ed This Informant said that\ROSENGOLZ, the Commissar of Foreign Trade, told him that upon the recommendatioref the Soviet Army, he had been appointed president of Auto-Noto-Export, This Informant related that one transaction involved the delivery of armaments to the Turkish Government under a loan of ten million gold dollars loaned without interest for twenty years. The contract was signed by the Turkish Ambassador Vassyf = Bey and this infor- mante Informant stated in China at that time, Russia had placed a puppet in charge of the government in Sinkiang. The Soviet Army General Staff fur~ nished this informant with the senior officers to work in Auto-tioto-Export. He said that Auto—Moto-—Export had a representative who was attached to the Chinese Cammunist Army in Sinkiang. During this period, this informant was in frequent contact with the War Ministry and with General I. Berzin, chicf of the Soviet Army Intelligence, who was this Informant's former senior officer on the Soviet General Staff. ir aie