VARONIS RUBBER FACTORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000200410008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Latvia
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
CLASSIFICATION ?~,~ ~/V
CONFII~NTIAL /SECURI1r fl -ION- __
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Varonis, Rubber Factory
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1. The rubber fay. th:y "Ver nis" was found #d in 1920 in Raga, T -tvia, %e "actury
is located on Brivib&s Street in Riga near the so-called Air Bridge (rail-
road overpass), At first the plant was very small, but by 1944 it had
expanded to 15 thousand square feet of factory grounds housed in two large
buildings. Its employees numbered one thousand,
2. Articles produced at the plant
Amount oar d v
4000 pairs
1000 d
300 n
1000 each
400 n
up until 1941 were the followings
Ar t is l e
lubbers
Boots
Leather shoes
Bicycle tires and tubes
Hard rubber battery oases
In addition, the-factory also produced conveyor belts, hot water bottles,
stoppers, nipples, rubber gloves, and gas masks.
3. Fqui snt i ons isted of ten Large rubber mixers (awal zen") , two
large vulcanisdti
k
t
ou
e
lea;. 40 vulcanination presses, two ateam kettles,
and the aorrespo;iing necessary molding forms, cutting knives, calendars
for forming rubber sheets, and rubber cement rsixers.
When the "oviets occupied Latvia in 1940, the plant was nationalised and
by 1941 the trend to convert the factory into a plant which produced only
one article was already noticeable. In other words the plant was to be
Incorporated into the Soviet industrial system. This conversion was inter-
rupted by the German occupation (from July 1941-1944t
b
,
u when the SowietP
regained control, the plant was ordered to specialize in conveyor belts
only. Equipment from other plants was transferred to Varonis to 1"nrsa.*
that the fact o
y conveyor belts at the 50X1 X'_ 215 present time (December 1952).
CLASSIFICATION
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DATE DISTR. $ Jan 1953
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5.
The emphasis on conveyor" belt' production was brought about by the Soviet
'desire (evenin 1941) to exploit the oil deposits discovered in the 1930's
in Zetonia. These deposits were discovered in a waste layer containing 1.1o33 -
eral consisting of 60 % oil and 40 % stone. This mineral ceu
be used for fuel by burning it directly or also by distilling the oil for use
as machine oil. Rene the Soviets concentrated the production at Varenis in
order to attain the necessary conveyor belts for transporting this mineral
from the Estonian mines. The leather shoes department,. of course, has been
shut down completely. -
6, One difference between the factory I (1920-194oi 1941-1944)
Research facilities at the factory consisted of a laboratory Which Was setabs
lished in 1939 in which were employed one chemical engineer and four assistants.
This research was directed towards experimentation with different ingredients
which combinedF with ibe rubber would result sic: ar erior product and also
with the rogenergt oA of rubber, , as a lot of 4 e' r lused!~in -the" menafaow-,,.:_
turing was 'regenerated rubber: t?:
exclusively,
and now (1952) is the fact that formerly only natural rubber was used at the
plant, but now the Soviets are using synthetic rubber almost
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