PRODUCTION AND EXPORT OF LIQUID FUELS AND CHEMICALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100070007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL NTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NU.
MFORMATION REPORT
Fast Germany
= =JBJECT Production and Export of Liquid Fuels and
Gheralc;als
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The fcl1_na:-n~ table Elives the 1952 Last Gcrnr~.r planned and actual deliverl.es
to is and oils to ,`Lj-,sia*a .urnt-ties are in Fiotric tone.-
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19 52 1953 i ercentago of 1952 Percent, age of 1953
nation gesso-
line 100 t 10o"000 110 ,a 000 50
zso-cctaae 20 U00 : 1,000 5
ee~-vlar gasoi?ne 5, -X00 25,000 20
Diesel fuel 60s )OO , O* O 10-12
?oto.r off. s 25 00 - 1
1-rd mznffi^a 5 ' 3'J,000 20
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the isurpius arising from d t cre. sud, 1953 shirnen $ `.o Pussio. is to be alio('t d
doy;est~:c consutription en i to e,xporta to ties We at,
taraual r o ?hxilc tiovi of r UL, tae : c ingredient needed for plastics pr oduct oa-v
=mounts to r/: ,?3( tons nnrro ~it,a .te? zy~ half t hi r prod c,tion is exported nr?in
as osily to best Gomany ,nd. flo?t_l nd through the fart Gcr ion trade. orb an$ nation
Chen1fa. Only 5 percent of the production is delivered to 11a'easia.
The 1953 aatt.1'ftric acid r,a-duction plan calls for the predueti_o.; )~- ?35,100 tons
ctiarin :. the first qua ter 5,0`?0 tons during the second qurr*..er, 100?0M tons
Luring the third quarter en' 1.10,000 tons during the fourth quarto:r. Actual
urodatction dlzrin,`.' the first quarter mounted to 74,000 tons, Der:: stic rources
=.mppl.y 1M.000 tons of p rites annually which rre processed' to provide 0p-
.ro ine te.l 66,E tons of at.?1pnt.,ric acid. This is only about 20 )crc ont of
I he deficit, of 400,000 tons of pyrite: nxc 11, ceted from
o leannea rroaxzction. TT
Spain e.:ad are shipped via r.ol1snc or Lngland. The Dutch rdddiener: _s the Stemrnle:a-
i:.ex f irra, whose ,rc roc ,+z 'nu) . t?r.4 ler:, is said to conclude the trade
re e;r ,.c r s r /irsc.?r clly. l e ' ast i',errr ::r_ i~ i; rr t co> .plex is o nr.;..ox i ty ot:s torss'r
e a, :}u n -r _ ;;r a yd . , ;t't: for tie Brat qna.r t: r cc 1353 frr
5, vC30 ton's) ho,.ever ; '=; 7ti ~ Y.t, se i l/ t~ci on tons
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a , production of sulphur amounts to 75,000 tone. 5,000 tons were to
have been a w)orted during the first quarter of 1953; how r, only 2,000
were shipped? During 1952, 3,000 tons ,sere sh,` Aped to Russia and 5,000
tons to West Germany.
3. Annual vrorluction of soda strrounts to about 13OpC( to 140,000 tons. The
Bernburg soda rks, formerly dismantled by tho Rusa cans, now has a
daily production cf 300 tons.
6. During 1952, the K reise received instructions to include in their budgets
monies for the purchea a of DesaY ol, a DI M . ke disinfectant need against
potato bugs. The Ere i budget allocations were made on the basis of the
price of Ges?rrol am-rent at the beginning; of t le year. After the budgets
had been sub fitted to higher headeluartera the Ministry of Finance
levied an excise of 100 percent on Gesaro . This resulted in a 50 percent
reduction in the amount of Daesarol that could Ie purchased by the Iireise.
A surplus of 3,,000 tons of Gesarol taus rru1 ed . During; the w ring of
1953, it was ascertained that the incidence of rctato Lugs had almost
doubled, fish, that there had been 10 eggs laid (Gelege) per square meterh,
70 The present head of the Research and I Je alo rit Section of the Static
Secretariat for Chemistry is Prof. (frna) trtech.
8. Stato `eo t?ry for .0hc strrr it Ih . Wooer Winkler` formerly with the
Fromits rg7on works. His x laceraent at Pr mits is Erich Winkler,, a
former section head in the state secretariat.
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