PRODUCTION BOTTLENECKS AT SIEMENS PLANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003700820005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
I INFORMATION REPORT
NO.. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Tha..wbn '. `` :Retortensc a1en was used in an information report bearing
the above heading? and was erroneously translated as "retort bowls".
This is actually flue carbon (pure carbon reclaimed from fume deposits
on the sides of coke furnace stacks of a specific outmoded type which
is no longer being built). The carbon scale deposited on the stacks is
scraped off periodically and packed for shipment in flake form.
2. Although the East German authorities have attempted to obtain supplies
of this type of carbon from gas plants and coke plants in East Germany,
the old type equipment is lacking in East German whose flue coke o
not have the purity of the material ordered
1.
STATE X ARMY X NAVY X AIR I X FBI AEC
East Germany
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.
Production Bottlenecks at Siemens Plania DATE DISTR. 15 March 1954
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