INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000100350001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Industrial Developments
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very old mines in Cinobana and Lovinobana are being
greatly expanded, for otherwise there would be no housing
program, the communities having a population of only two or
three thousand each.
Evidence of shortages was clearly visible. Coal rations
for private heating were cut several times, and coke was
completely excluded from private consumers. Private
consumers get the worst quality, usually only inferior soft
brown coal. There is a propaganda drive in industry and
transport not only for saving coal, but for switching to
brown'coal. Only recently 0 Radio Prague broadcast
interviews with locomotive engineers who explained their
success in using soft brown coal and even brown coal powder
in express train engines. In 1950 the hot water was turned
off for five or six days a week in large apartment houses
in Prague. There are severe punishments for the violation
of the directives limiting the heating of public and even
private rooms. A?great deal of importance is placed upon
coal production by the government and the Communist Party.
Because of the production difficulties a special "vladni
poverenec" (government comissar Minister of Int ri r
Vaclav Nosek) was appointed.
pro-
duction is no keeping pace with the
expansion of the rest of heavy industry.
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Soviet geologists were there. An important part of the
a de s with eolo ical research.
the production of synthetic gas is
extensive
geological research is beiin. done in the Hodonin region
stressed more. he Stalin worms in the
s rin of 1950 much construction was oin on,
Czechoslovakia meets
about 90 per cent o her nee s w synthetic gasoline.
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