INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL RESEARCH ON POLYAMIDES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000500470007-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Institute for Chemical-Research on
Polyamides
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1, The Institute for Chemical Research on Pblyami.des (Ustav pro chemicky vyzkum
polyamidu) occupied approximately one third of the three-story building
(known as Num? er 65) of the Svit.Nation l Corporation in Gottwaldov. $vit's
Chemiical.Institute occupied the rest of this hui.ding.
The T:cstitute for Chemical Research on Pol amides had or-.
Y g" ally %~teft-btdPr
the.administration.of the Svit National Corporation. In 1950, howwver,
it.received an inddep ndent.a linistratior and as put under the immediate
jurisVIct a of the General Directorate of Czechoslovak Chemical Plants, which
..intended to transfer research on polyamides to the. Silon.Nati.oral Enterprise
at Plana nad tuznici L+923.N-114 j, This intention was later given up. As.of
summer 1952, research-on polyamides was i.mmedihtely under the Ministry.of Chemical
Industry. The, top executives of the Svit National Corporation at Gottwaldov
have been asking, so.far in vain, for the transfer of research on polyamides
.from Gottwaldov to another place... The -Institute for Chemical. Research on
Polyamides.employed.75 people; its chief was .ng. Josef (-) Moravec.
2. In the wring .of 1952 Eng., Moravec succeeded in .laboratory production of a..new
artificial fiber' which he called "silen''',
25X1 A "silenp" was .essentially the same thing,as e British-made fiber ? Teryle "'
(a product derived from .terephthalic acid). This fact,, however, was known only
25X1 to a small circle of persons.around .Moravec . At the Research Institute the new
material was..generally referred to.as "silen";.the Czechoslovak:ublic has-not
been informed about the existence of the new fiber. E: I
25X1 Cn 4:- j 1 1952-Soviet experts heard of research work
.being performed at Gottwal ,ov9. and,; being astonished . atthis, immediately. came
to see Moravec and studied the results . of his work. Upon intercession of unidentified
Soviet. officials, Moravec is continu$ng'this research very Intensely.. During the
Summer of 1952 Moravec worked.on the development of equipment for small-scale
trial production of sileno
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