PRODUCTION AND CONSTRUCTION AT EISENHUETTENKOMBINAT OST, FUERSTENBERG/O

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000200090008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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4dminLst?ation
6a Pour Russian engineer officers were minted to Fuerstenberg early in
September and are now responsible for the technical supervision of the
works ': They are in direct contact with the 5CC in Karlshorst, from
Vb0m they ,are now attempting to obtain a guarantee that Fuerstenberg
in the future will be supplied only with first quality iron 'ore from Krivoi
Rog, and to: ensure thet tom.. metallurgical coke -supplied from Upper Btlesia
is consistent ,ity4 investigation carried out by these officers
of the various explosions which have occurred in the blast furnaces turfing
recent months; has established that these were in all cases caused by
the fact that the coke supplied from Poland had'tot -beefi"suffitiently
die-gassed.
fltpel Works
Great difficulty is being experienced in obtaining suitable gas generators
for the open hearth furnaces. An Order was originally placed with
Kollergas, Berlin.) for forty-twu of these generators which are of the fi ti.'s
own design+ The engineers responsible for this design have recentl
absconded
,nth the result that E.K.0, has been 25X1
compelled, t0 seek its supplies elsewhere. An order has now been placed
with V Xecbaib k Qaselan,_Berlin As, however, the VBB Gaselan model
is considerably less efficient than the design by Kollergas,, seventy-two
generators will nog` be required, instead of the forty-two originally planned.
Considerable amendments to B.K.Ots construction plan will therefore
be required:.
Trance
Workerst transport requirement were originally served by a fleet of
buses of Hungarian menufactare powered by an Otto gasoline engine.
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Instructions have now been received that bepause of the shortage of
gasoline in 'East Germany, these vehicles mqr no longer be operated.
To assist Workers, the management has issued a number of Czechoslovakian
bicycles obtained from the E.0. Most of these have no tires, however,
and the recipients have been unofficially instructed to obtain tires
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