MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC INFORMATION FROM NORTHWESTERN BOHEMIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003600260010-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
CLASSIFICATION :
INFORMATION REPORT . CD NO
?OUNTRY Czechcs1.ov4ki,',
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Economic lnformatien .from.1
Northwestern Lohezai.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
'ee t?,e Er oepnaabostoy S~IY
1. The construction psf the ore processing plantl (tridirna rudy) between
Probostov (N5l/$'34) and Bohosudov (N51/F34) is progressing very quick-
ly. At the beginning of No ember source counted U one to three-sto-
ried buildings in various stages of completion at the construction site,
Two of the buildings were connected by an elevated " shaped wooden
tunnel. A railroad sidings, connecting the plant with the railroad line
Teplice (N51/F34) - Usti n+aad Tube. (N51/.FI) has already been completed.
A new road connection to the nearest three mines in the vicinity &f Vr-
chosslav - Krupka (N51/F34) Is being constructed. who has been 25X1X
working at excavations near Vrchoslav for the past twelve months told
source that preliminary work at his mine is to be completed by the end
of this year and that the actual mining of fluorite is to start on 1
January 19540 Excavations completed so far in this area revealed com-
paratively shall abposits of fluorites, the average thickness of the flu<
orite selns beiri- from 10 to 18 centimeters. Additional prospecting is
being carried out in the vicinity of Bohosudov.
pion of a Ibvdroel?C_tx1Q F a., s I .A
2. In the vicinity of Flaie (N5lfF14) preparations are being made for the
construction of a dam and a bydroelcictric plant. In connection with
this project a tunnel is being excavated near Senbach 051/F'14) f. Part
of the labor force employed on the construction of e tunnel is com-
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$ l a gWegnt i'or F1a,ct 4 v _C% e,. ? I
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As of 1 January 1954 the management of the works canteens will be taken
over by the Hotels and Restaurants, 13ational. Enterprise (Hotely a rea-
tauraces, na.rodnni podnik). This will result in a considerable increase
in the price of meals served in the works canteens,, since the subsidy
paid hitherto per head and meal by the works management will be discos,
tinued0 The whole cost of the real will have to be paid by the custo-
mer.
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The flea-' of tlxe Chief A dr'i.n oration of the Vell;ove,c:oct otlcrrtth
zbozir (whr.olesale to -tile rlistri'-nition aTencv whip.': wss until re-
cently known unrler the rare Textilia) is ;'atou^l-ova (f'nu) Tl3e
Director of the Velkoobchorl a&le .nnar zbozin (VOZ) is Winter (f`nu )
Director of the VOZ branch for the Usti ra Taber r?er, on s 'ans_o
dorf (frm),, The address of the VOZ Secretariat is Prat-up IT.,
Vodickova 43, Local textile shops forrerly known as Tap, `Iatij-
nal antorprise, a- -e now called Odevni obc'iod.
7, Frequent power cuts luring the da.ytir~e are f'nrc r rror~-, ar 1 r..ere
Plants to resort to nir*ht worU., ' a,r-ried woren erp1o,rod Ir i;'e e
plants receive no srecial consirleratien an," are forced, to c;or^k-
ni ?ht shifts. Sozrrce heard f r o r an or:rrloeTee of the Tn lice rc , ,r
station that the frequent rot-3err cuts are cal used by the r;bso e'c
and poorly r:aintained nachiner'y in the m,rcr rl.ants,, 17 low ^*. ' f
ty coal an' by a cors?. nt overloadinr- of the grid e.rra the n rtla
Bohemian power stations take pert in a loxtr-J41.^;,zrrrn poor :n r ,;
scheme to Ifunr*ary) 3henever a rower station roes out of errs-xUS-
sior the rerai in ones have to +ake over Its c'pstor.ert,, (all. t" c'
power station are interconnected),
8 :, The price of a unit of electric nor rear :rent ur in T eY l f ce
f'ror 0?23 =acs to 0,,,10 "Iles. It is er Y.e that +',-- rrlce or r- s,
at present O.,r4 Ycs rnr o- -a c-abic . ter,, will al so to in, as of
1 January l954#,
lbatand F ' s arc
. The shortage of meat and especially of ^4ts has grown worse.
On 14 hovorher source stood two hours in line
for 3 ?-lb of fats bvt went he : rrty-handed hecaiase to s' prly
was sold out before his turn caries H- was told that the next
suprly w111. arrive a reek later. It is corT^onl 7r he" ie ved that
large conriprrents of , eat, fats an