PENICILLIN FACTORY ROZTOKY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000890001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 6, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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
INFORMATION REPORT to amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or r receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Penicillin Factory, Roztoky
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 6 May 1954
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
25X1
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. At the beginning of November 1953, an order was received at the Penicillin
Factory, Roztoky, from the Ministry of National Defense, to the effect
that the production of aureomycin, which was just starting, was to be
cancelled immediately, the production of streptomycin was to be curtailed,
and all effort was to be concentrated on increasing the production of
penicillin for the Army.
2. Army laboratories for research on contagious diseases are contained in
the Penicillin Factory at Roztoky.
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