1. CZECH REQUIREMENTS OF SPECIAL METALS 2. CZECH PRODUCTION OF SILICON CARBIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007000040006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia.
SUBJECT 1. Czech Requirements of Special DATE DISTR.
Metals
2. Czech Production of Silicon CarbideNO. OF PAGES
DATE OF INFO.
DATE ACQUIRED
20 June 1955
1. he no longer require iron ore, ferrotungsten
or ferrovanadiua
,
as all their requirements can be net either by internal production
ports from the USSR or other Satellite countries.1
2e Present Czech requirements are for ferroboron and for 100 tons of silicon
metals.
3o The manufacture of black silicon carbide in the Vah valley of Slovakia is
now sufficient for internal requirements., and the manufacture of green
silicon carbide commenced on 12 January 1955.2'-
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