AUSTRIAN PURCHASE OF YUGOSLAV SUBLIMATE OF MERCURY FOR PROBABLE SHIPMENT TO HUNGARY
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CIA-RDP80-00810A001500180004-2
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RIPPUB
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S
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1
Document Creation Date:
December 22, 2016
Document Release Date:
November 3, 2009
Sequence Number:
4
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Publication Date:
June 22, 1953
Content Type:
REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/03: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001500180004-2
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document conta>,ns 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.
SMBET/CONTWL; U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Yugoslavia/Austria/Hungary
SUBJECT Austrian Purchase of Yugoslav
Sublimate of Mercury for Probable
Shipment to Hungary
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
It was reported on 11 April 1953 that the lumber firm V. Leitgeb of Ktibnsdorf,
Carinthia, Austria, had recently contracted to purchase three metric tons of sublimate
of mercury from the Generalna DiroIOc3ja Hemiske Industrije:`f, Srbije (General Directorate
of the Chemical Industry of the Popular Republic of Serbia)., Belgrade.. It. is. believed
that Leitgeb intends to ship the mercury to Hungary.
SECIST /coNTAOL U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
25X1
22 June 1953
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