PRODUCTION OF INSULATING PAPER FOR THE USSR AT DOLNI BRANNA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003400440003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 12, 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.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.
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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
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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.
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