HANABATH CEMENT FACTORY/POSSIBLE PHARMACEUTICAL-PRODUCING FACTORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040454-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 454
• Publication Date: August 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION C0NFJ1 r'IAL/SECURITY INF(>$F(ATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Hanabath Cement Factory/Possible Pharmaceutical-
Produci.ng Factory
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIREO~
DATE OF IATIOH
BATE DISTR.a 8 Aug 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
All of the personnel working in this factory were "criminals"
= There were between 75 and 100 people employed here.
The rock quarries were located about seven kilometers southeast of the cement factory.
Here eight to eleven miners mined rock with the aid of air drills and dynamite. The rock
was loaded by hanft into horse drawn carts. There were five of these carts, each drawn
by two horses, and the carts averaged about two and a half trips per day hauling the rock
to the cement factory.
k.. Upon delivery to the cement yard the rock was split, using sledge hammers and then loaded
into the furnaces. There were four furnaces in this cement factory and the normal load-
ing was 12-20 m layers of crushed rock alternated with 12-15 cm layers of coal. The
diameter of the furnaces was about seven meters. It took seven men one week to crush the
rock and another week for the same seven men to load the rock into the furnace. At the
beginning of the third week the furnace was fired and'the burning lasted four days. The
combination was allowed to cool or tbres days and the semi-solid powder was loaded in
hand pulled half-ton carts. on the average it took about, one week to unload each furnace.
The carts.were pwashAd by hand oma half kilometer to the railroad and the cement was loaded
in railroad box cars from an inclilsd ramp. Some reeks we loaded two or three box cars
per week and other veeks ws loaded to ten box can.
5. The railroad *brougb Hanabath nme.sitrgle-track and carried apprtacimately two
passenger trsims with three or four passenger cars and four or five freight trains
with 15 to 16 cars cash per day. The only freight *as the coal shipped to
the west from some mine east of Haaabath.
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factory rumored to produce pbarmaceuti8als.
ac ry was locatied out one-half kilceeeter east of the Bakhchibarayy (k 47'p 330
54i 8) railroad alltion and sployed about sixty people in three shifts during the month
of August, the only period during which the factory worked.
Early in Augastfarmsrs in the area brought in a kind of wheat called "gbalfey". This
plant was about three feet long, the sts pas about one-half inch is diameter and the
bloom had a pint top and ss bluish bottom. The shaltsy was loaded in four or five
kettles of ozisately lOO.6911ou ae-aeity each at the factory and packed with a fork
to about one foot iram the top of Us .kettle. The kettle was then hermetically sealed
and bested by means of stem pipes wsped around. the kettle. The shalfey wasAeoired
for about one to one and a hulk hoerrs. A vapor was drawn through a tube connected to
the side of the kettle and in a can about !3" long and about ,4" in diameter,
which I believed to be sameofeeoling syStea. The liuuid from each batch filled
about half of a glass far about 18 high and eight inches in diameter. The glass jars.
were immediately taken to the warehouse and kept under guard. The warehouse was the
only covered building in the factory area. It was possible to distill about three fall
batches in each kettle each eight hours.
There was one guard at each kettle and the product was carefully controlled. The
ususgaaent of the factory was very aecrotive and made no answer to our guesses at what
the product was used for. Nobody working in the factory appeared to get than
usual during this period and the management did not appear to drink at all doubt
that this was a Vodka distillery. The workers generally agreed that the product was
for sane new medicine.
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