CKD SHIPYARDS, PRAGUE AND USTI NAD LABEM

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02936430
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-01373
• Publication Date: August 7, 1953

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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tional Defense of the Vatted States, witisin the mean-
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY
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Czechoslovakia
CKD Shipyards, Prague and Usti
nad Labem
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CKD Shipyard. Praeue
1. The last four barges for the Czechoslovak Elbe-Oder Navigation ComparAy-
(CSPLO) are being completed at the CKD Shipyard at Prague, and production
is being switched to the manufacture of dredges for the USSR. Work began
on the dredges in January 1953.
2. Originally the Soviet order was for dredges 14 meters wide, but it WWII
learned that they would not be able to pass through the locks on the way
to Szczecin (Stettin), so the width had to be reduced to 9 meters. The
engines are supplied by Skoda. All parts for the dredges are required
to be marked in the Russian language.
3. In order to fulfil the Soviet orders the shipyards have started an in-
tensive recruitment drive for workers. In Prague there are notices in
trolley cars appealing to workers to volunteer for the shipyards. Pay
and working conditions are believed to be quite good.
CKD Shipyard. gpti mad Labem
4. At the beginning of March 1953 a group of military experts were seen at
the CKD Shipyard, Usti nad Labem, taking over approximately 50 completed
pontoons which were painted red. Further pontoons were also observed to
be under construction. The pontoons consist of three parts and have a
total length of eight to nine meters each. The center part is about two-
and-one-half meters long and is airtight. The parts of the pontoons are
welded together, not riveted.
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