KLEMENT GOTTWALD AUTOMOBILE WORKS (FORMERLY AUTO-PRAGA), PRAGUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005600020007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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and. equipment. Production was finally ~tA.~tAa ~? nRorage^ofvarious. raw-,material'
'CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET U.S. OFFICIALS. ONLY
COUNTRY
SUIUECT
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
g our;shifts. Its present automobile production.is limited3excluwor ly$nhree
The production of a.'new.model of three-ton trucks for the armed forc vel .to sttrart
or
at'the beginning of 1954, was delayed because of sh t
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bona! Ds[enee of the United States within the mean.
Ing at. the 14epionage Laws. Title 18. U.B.C. sees. 783
and 794, the transmiselon or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law. .
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 23 . December 1954-
.NO- OF PAGES . 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD.
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE A
PPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1?. The Klement Gottwald Automobile Works.(Automobilove zavody Klementa Gottwalda)
National. Enterprise: (formerly 'Auto-praga) employs,:approxim t 1
ei ht h .
Various.types of mines are al
so
urned out by this factory.;, The components of
the mines are produced, in the slOtS .of the fra.etn,?.r ?ra~,. _ _
On l': June 1953 approximately 500
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is strictly f0 --mu. -u zn a ractory room, the entrance.to which
forbidden to persons not working. there . Large mines are stored on the premises The mines are not filled withiexplosi
factory. vessinbthe
' . the
ers participated in-the demonstration in the
courtyard, stagedor
.as a protest against the. c
arrested on.the spot urrency reform. Teri workers ? were
from the factory. by the militia, and another.:30 to 40 w erswere 'later
discharge&
NOT11 Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution b
Czechoslovakia
Klement Gottwald Automobile Works
(formerly. Auto-Praga), Prague
25X1
25X1
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