SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE KRASLICE AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700120003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United Btates, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 703 and 704, of the U.S. Code, as
INFORMATION REPORT amended. Its trbns=nissian or revelation of Its tents
to or receipt by an unauthorised person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S...OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
Social and Economic Conditions in
.the iraslice Area
REPORT
DATE (DISTR. 9 April 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Political investigation and evacuation of unreliable inhabitants of the I~raslice
(N51/K30) area were going on in the summer of 1952. The town.-of Hranicna
(Afiarkhausen) was evacuated in:May 1952 and its residents. transferred to interior
regions,of Czechoslovakia. Unmarried evacuees received a compensation of 1,500 Kcs.
and married ones 2,500 Kcs. There were about 400 residents of Hranicna.
No traffic between.Kraslice and.Hranicna.is permitted now.
20 Neither private nor industrial buildings are being built.at.Kraolice, but old
buildings are ?being?pulled .down and the materials sent away, in4.some cases.as
.far as to Slovakia. Workers employed in pulling down buildings are partly
regular members of the Kraslice.district.national committee and. partly
brigade workers sent by firms interested in getting the materials.
3. Foodsupplies.have been very poor. Sometimes the inhabitants-have not been
able to get bread.
4+. In 1952 dysentery broke.out inthe.Kxaslice nationalized farms and all the
sucking .pia died.
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 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/11/03: CIA-RDP80-0081OA000700120003-8
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains tafoias en e[eetlff the Na-
uonal Defense of the United SMiss within the musa-
ing of Title 18, seottons7f3 sad 7N. of tho 0.i. Code. es
amended. Its tr_nemtulal or fwNegoae(ttscootegfs
to or receipt by an unauthostsed poison is pohlbited
by law. The reproduction Ge this Eli to pohtbitsd.
SECRET/CONTROL --U.S.OFFICIAIS ONLY
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Erection of Obstacles on .the
Czech-East German Bordei in the
As.Area
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 9 April 1953
NO. OF PAGES .1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
50X1-HUM
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
.In the vicinity of Rossbach, in the Asarea$ barbed wire obstacles were being
built.in.the autumn of 1952 along the Czech - East German border.
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