REPERCUSSIONS OF THE CURRENCY REVALUATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001500530005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
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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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
12 June 1953
1, In the @urrency ?6xchange, beginning 1 June 1953, individuals not employed
exchanged their-money at banks upon presentation of their household cards
(kmenovy list), Employed persons exchanged their money at their places of
employment. Finance officers of the enterprises made the exchange,- All persons
receipted by signing a register. No entries were made in identification
cards(Obla.nsky prukaz) or household cards (kmenovy list)
2. On 5 June all employees of the V,I,Lenin Works (formerly Skoda Works)
in Pilsen engaged in a protest strike. A strong SNB detachment attempted to
restore order in Pils $n, Six persons were killed when the mob refused to obey
orders to disperse. The array has been guarding the V,I,Lbnin Works since 5 June,
3. Sti?ikes were also called on 5 June in Sokolov and in Moravska Ostrava, The
Sokolov strike was ended on the same day by:the SNB without loss of life,
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continuing on 7 June,
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the Moravska 9 trava strike was still
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4.
On 3 and 9 June 1953 not one carload of coal arrived in Selb-Ploessberg or
Schirnding, West Germany, from Czechoslovakia. On 9 June, five carloads arrived,
with 14...per day scheduled for 10 and 11 June. Transport of other goods to West
Germany as well as of goods in transit to other countries from Czechoslovakia
was stopped on 3June.
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