ELEKTRO-PRAGA, NATIONAL ENTERPRISE, HLINSKO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003300310001-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 20, 1954
• 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 Elektr?-Praga, National Enterprise,
Hlinsko
DATE OF INFO.
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DATE DISTR.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The Elektro-Praga, National Enterprise, Plant at'Hlinsko...(05O/M86), 'Ea.st Bohemia
produces various electric appliances, such as electric motors, refrigerators,
heaters, etc. On 10 November 1952, a large new automatic sheet iron cutter was
delivered to the plant by an East German firm. Since then,however, the machine
has not even been unpacked and is still in a wooden crate outside, in the yard.
Elektro-P.raga continues to send all its sheet iron to the Kovo factory at Choteborl
to have it cut to the required pattern.
2. Another example of gross negligence concerns the storage of pre-fabricated wooden
packing cases. A large consignment worth over one and a quarter million Kcs. arrived
at the plant about the end of 1952.,from the mill at Steti (051/F72). Much of this
has been scattered in different places in the factory yard and much has been left 111
the open where it is slowly rotting away. Workshops are never repaired., rain pene-
trates through the roofs into various workshops and not only inconveniences workers
but also interferes with production, ruining machines and unfinished products. When
workers complain to the central administrative office they are advised to place a
bucket under the leaks.
3. The manager of the factory is Kukela (fnu); the production department is managed by
Chief Engineer Laskov (fnu); the deputy manager, Polak (fnu)., is also in charge of
the administrative department. The head of the accounting department is Hasler (fnu);
development of production methods is under the chief official of the technological
department, Kratochvil (fnu). Technical equipment is supervised by the chief mechanic,
Kroutil (fnu).
4. Only a few workers in the Elektro-Prager factory are enthusiastic Party members. The
top officials owe their high positions to Party allegiance and there are few enuine
followers of the Part line amo the workers
Attendance at Warty meetings is
always negligible. On one occasion, when the secretary general of the district
executive of the Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship League, Jaroslav Tousovsky, visited
the factory, only about 25 people turned up for his lecture, although compulsory
attendance had been ordered by the Party. 25X1
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5. The political instructors at the plant were given the difficult task, early in 1953,
of explaining to the rank-and.file members that one of the more popular Communist
members of'Parliament, Beran (friu)y had been found guilty of deviationism, and that
he was involved with another "disga!sed enemy" of the people, a woman member of
Parliament, Mrs. Jarmila Taussigova,, in the Slansky conspiracy. For years both these
Communists had been praised as very distinguished protectors of the working class.
There-was surprise that not all of their friends were purged with them, e.g.7the
secretary of the district action committee of the National Front, Karel Dufek , and the
newly appointed chairman of the Regional National Committee, Jaroslav Lochmann,4 who
stayed in office.
1. Comment. The 1951-1952 telephone directory lists both Kovomat and
Kovotechna, National Enterprises, at Chotebor.
20 Comment. Possibly Bohemian Sawmills (Ceske Pily), National Ent-r-rise,
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3. Washington Commenat According to a report of May 1953, Dufek, former Czech Ambas-
sador to Turkey and one-time head of the Foreign Ministry's "Marshall Plan Section,,"
testified at the Slansky trial and himself received a sentence of 25 years, 25X1
4el Lcomment, a Jaroslav Loohmann
was Chairman of the Regional Committee o the Communist Varty in Pardubice. 25X1
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