ELECTROTECHNICAL PLANT IN RIGA

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 17, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
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 USSR (Latvian SSR)
SUBJECT Electrotechnical Plant in Riga
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REPORT
DATE DISTR. 17 June 1958
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The Valsts Electrotechnical Factory (Valsts Elektrotekinichekva Fabrikx
VEF) was located on ulitsa Lenina, Riga, beyond the bridge (VoSdushnyy Most)
over the railroad line coming from the center of town- The plant, which
once belonged to the German. firm AEG and was taken over by the Latvians_be....
fore World War II, was subordinate to the Ministry of Communications Equip-
ment Industry until 1955, when it was transferred to the Ministry of
Electric Power Stations. Local Latvian authorities were gradually assuming
responsibility for the plant, which had been subordinate to the Ministry of
Radio Technical Industry since late 1956.
2. The plant employed 5,000 to 7,000 workers, most of whom
worked
The VEF was considered a model enterprise, and missions from
the Soviet bloc countries, had inspected.
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in two shifts.
the plant.
3. Following were the principal divisions of the VEF:
a. Telephone exchange division, which .consisted of mechanical processing,
assembly of telephone- exchanges, assembly of sets, and automatic relay
production shops,
b. Radio-technical division, which produced radio receivers, was comprised
of the following departments mechanical processing, assemblies
(probably chassis), and two assembly shops.
c. A press shot) for the plastic :processing of metals and sheet metal,
d. A press shop for bakelitejorbducts.
A telephone production Shop.
f. Foundry.
g. Toolmaking shop.
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h. Carpentry shop.
i. Hardening shop.
j. Plating shop.
k. Paint shop.
1. Chief electriCian!s division.
m, Maintenance division.
The VEF also had the'standardadministrative and technical sections
found in most Soviet plants.'
4 . The VEF had been building complemeni..Of, machinery since 1944/1945
because the Germans had removed most of its Mechanalequipment
Most Of the equipment was old the presses for plastic processing, for
example, were prewar German models MaChihesmrainiuletalworking tools,
had been. importedrbm:.the USSR', '.Czechoslovakia; Ilungaryand Poland. .
The plant aPparently,hOdonly;:lbne Western, machine;,-,whiCh:.wasan unidenti-
fied Swedish installation_
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The principal products of the yu were radio' receiVereautOmotiC telephone
exchanges? and telephones. Production of mdlitary communications equipment
had been disContinued., However, it could have .1peeti reemed.bh,shOrt notice.
Th m .1-711;!?wing rl.di,7 m.,,it 2 ' lArie pr*ducd: .
o4 The Lyu.kS : model, which had 11 tubes and 'four loudspeakers'. Three
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. thousand .units were produced a month.
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. b. The Akkord, which ,wOS.animproved version of the Baltika -model
manufactured by the plant ' until 1956 , Three thoUSOnd sets were
produced' monthly,
?The Turit., a,pbrtable
sets each month.'
was produced at Ahe- rOte .Of ten. thousand
6. Thirty thousand telephOnes; lb :addition to spare parts,. were produced
each month. No figureCon telettone exchanges- were available, but it
was believed that the6htire:JroduCtion was for' the .domestic 'market.
7. The VEF had. exported 5,000 standard', Lyuks radi,6?, at well' as . 500 luxury
Lyuks built into calodAie' (ti*,6hgolibie was. 2
Although nol,tonfirmatiWW,;s.*tailable it 1/7,P.512e1I04,:theplan might
also export radioS East fcl-rMOny'.;; ?
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8. The production process Was. li.dered by. the irregular:and delayed ' supply
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of all raw materials, which was-ascribed to .130k . orgtui1zatiop. and
bureaucratic methods rat her ?han' real :shortage a'. :0: &nee qUetly, the
plant was forced to worIc at6::blowtempo at .thefbeginnli*"of;each month,
whereas .three .shiftS:14rt' :7e 4gired ,after theTMOteriali.;ead been 'received
to achieve production :q,i).0t4S On-SpVera:1-6qCons a pecIal'plane was
sent to Moscow to.:obt41104Vilograms of:*. berta :6f7ihre, with-
out which an entire' diiSiOniOuld. have ,remaifted' idle;L
9, In accordance with the ,C4Irren- tendency' toward :exclusid:;.prodU'CtiOn of
one item, a vote *as 4eld :4m6hg. the.;workers. to*teygne, Whether. they
preferred to coriCetratetit6i4('Ith -:production ' ot4cad-i4 telephones .
Although radios were i.44red'Arfo tAsUres' connected. with -thecdi 66ont in -
batiot of telephdpe MartAleaure' had been ta*34i JAW:i957
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10. Attached is a sketch, with legend, of the layout of the VEF.
Comments:
1. The nT,urist4model is not listed in available information.
2. The?`Russiali model is not listed in available information.
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Legend
A. .Plant area, measuring 1,000 x 500 meters.
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B. Area of the Railroad Construction Plant (Vagonnostroitelnyy)Zavod)
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C. Plant Layout
1, Shops for the production Of telephone exchanges, a four-story building
with a 150-meter front on ulitsaLeana and a width of about 100 meters.
First floor - mechanical processing.
Second floor - assembly of telephone exchanges.
Third floor - assembly of sets.
Fourth floor - automatic relay production.
2. Ulitsa Lenina in the direction of the center of Riga. The nearest
objective is a viaduct.over the railroad line.
3. Management offices, a three-story building.
4. Entry to management building from the street (plant executives only).
5. Vehicle gate, normally closed.
6. Permit office and guard room.
7. Five gates for pedestrians.
8. Secondary trade school of the plant, a two-story building to which there
is free access.
9 Offices of supply department and personnel bureau, a two-story building,
10. Shops for the production of radio sets, a six-story building with a tower.
First and sedond floors - mechanical processing. '
Third floor - assembly of IYuks=sets.
Fourth floor - assembly of Baltika.and.AkkorcLsets,
Fifth and sixth floors - shops for the production and assembly of radiOs.
11. Press. diVision (metals and sheet metal), a large shop 200 meters long with
a glass roof.
12. ? Offices of the finance and accounts departments a two-story building.
13. Chief electrician's division and boiler plant.
14 and 15. Vehicle.gate.
16. Railroad siding in direction of exit gate and junction with main line.
(AlthOughthetrack has been drawn as a straight line, it actually
branchee'out within the plant area.)
17. Tbolmaking shop, a.three-story-building.
18 Hardening shop
19. A five-tory building, measuring 150 x 100 meters, which houses the
f011owing: ?
First and bedond:floors - hydraulic presses' for bakelite processing.
Third floor'7eXperiMental division.
Fourth flbdr:-.!. telephone division, '
Fifth floor.- Unknown.
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20, Carpentry shop for production Of cabinets for radios and telephone exchanges,
a three-story building,
Stores.
22. Foundry.
23, Plating shop.
24. Paint shop.
25. Maintenance division,
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