PRODUCTION OF INSULATING PAPER FOR THE USSR AT DOLNI BRANNA

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CIA-RDP80-00810A003400440003-3
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2
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December 21, 2016
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April 21, 2009
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February 12, 1954
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REPORT
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Approved For Release 2009/04/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA003400440003-3 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.B. 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. SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY COUNTRY Czechoslovakia SUBJECT Production of Insulating Paper for the USSR at Dolni Branna REPORT DATE DISTR. 12 February 1954 NO. OF PAGES 2 REQUIREMENT NO. RD REFERENCES THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE. THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. (FOR KEY SEE REVERSE) 1. A small paper mill at Dolni Branna1 (0 51/G 55) in the Vrohlabi District, which is a branch of the Elbe River Paper Factories (Polabske Papirny), National. Enterprise, was selected in September 1953 to.proudce a special insulating paper for electrical engineering purposes. Prior to 1953, this paper - trade mark, ELKO -- was imported from Western countries As 25X1 Soviet industry was in need o arge quantities or s pa e oovi-eus ordered research to be conducted in Czechoslovakia, where good paper production specialists are available. 2. After a series of tests under the direction of Alois Fiedler,, the chief production engineer of the Dolni Branna factory, it was decided in about May 1953 that production of ELKO paper was impossible with the materials available in Czechoslovakia and that the process would be too expensive. 3. A week later, the manager of the Dolni Branna paper mill, Jaromir Hejcman, was summoned to Prague, where he was told at the Ministry of Foreign Trade that production of ELKO paper must start or else he might get into serious trouble, since the Soviet Mission in Prague had threatened to regard failure to comply with the order as an act of sabotage. He was promised unlimited funds for production of the paper. 4. At the beginning of August 1953, the first samples of the insulating paper, with qualities similar to those of imported EIKO paper, were turned out. The basic idea of the new process was to make shorter fibers than those available so far, and to glue with chemical instead of natural glues. In spite of these economies, the production costs are almost three times the cast of the imported paper, i.e. about 80 Kos. per large sheet. 5. The manager of the mill was ordered to go ahead with production in spite of the cost. The Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Trade, however, will have to pay the SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY x AIR FBI AEC___ _ L._._ j (Notes Washington Distribution Indicated By "X"; Field Distribution By 25 YEAR RE-REVIEW) Approved For Release 2009/04/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA003400440003-3 Approved For Release 2009/04/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA003400440003-3 SECRET/CONTROL U,tS. OFFICIALS ONLY difference between production costs and the price invoiced to the Soviet trade mission, for this latter price must not exceed that previously paid for imports from the West. Y. n : Probably the Krkonose Mountains Paper Mills (Krkonosske Papirr , National Enterprise, at Dolni Branna. SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY Approved For Release 2009/04/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA003400440003-3