That was a scam or at least overblown in scope, the "control room" you see in pictures was basically a movie prop, and their idea was basically to connect that room to every factory/port/mine with teletypes, it's similar in spirit to what a modern stock should do.
Maybe if they haven't been bombed to death very soon afterwards, control room and everything, for trying to make things better for their population and kicking out foreign neocolonialists, would have gotten an update.