OIL AND INDUSTRY IN CAUCASUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500810189-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 189
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Toword the end of Dec 1953. there arrived ir.Tbiliei consignments of synthetic
~?ubbcr. ri~his came from hex factories at Erfi, located south of Kuba (Azerbaijan).
-~c :,ynthetie rubber will be used to make automobile tires in the tare Factory
.+~. Kod ior~r Lai,, south of Tbilioi.
,~. `:.~n~:c oat 1953. oil prospecting has been yielding results in the area between
clan ,koi andAtbaeer ~~ the northern part of Kazakhstan. It 13 ncy: established
that there is oil in the region. Five grills aro xorking and oil installations
~~r. -~cing aet'up. Amon; the-workers being brought 1n, For work in this new oil
~~,~.ld, are deported individuals From Dagestan, aureataa ~iSi7 and Aserbai.~nn.
5 ;~wo new cotton factories have begun xork. Ona is at Iskender, northeast of
l'ashkent. Tho other is at Chia (Tsohi~a), northeast o? Samarkand. These
Factori.ea have been xorking et least since Aug 1953. Attached to these factories
c?re plants For the extraotion of oil (obviously eottonaeed, though informant does
+~~~r. +peciFieally so inform souroe) end the production of fertilizer (presumably
~~ ttonaeed meal, a valuable, though sold[ Fertilizing metorial). Muoh importance
s atteohed to these ttlo faoto>,~ias. The tiorkera raven those Hho are deportees, are
well treated.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORNIATI4H i~EPORT
SUBJECT Oil and Industry in Caucasus
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