DESCRIPTION OF RIGA ALCOHOL DISTILLERY/DESCRIPTION OF RIGA LEAD AND ZINC PAINT WORKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000300690005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Latvia)
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED
Description of the Riga Alcohol Distillery/
Description of the Riga Lead and Zinc Paint Works
DATE OF ITTORMATION
ENOS 00C00ENT CONTAIN. INFONMATION AFFE1.71116 THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF TUE UNITED STATES. WITHIN TUE MEANS a OF TITLE IS, SECTIONS 793
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DATE DISTR. Pt./5 1954
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Riga Alcohol Distillery
1. The Riga Spirta Rektifikacijas Iestade (Riga Alcohol Distillery) is
layout of plant as described belwAi
Street and Krona Street in Riga. in 1936.
2o The plant area is surrounded by an eight foot wire and spike fence.
shown as (A) on Exhibit (A) 's a five story red brick building
addition to the administrative staff, a laboratory and the bottling
(B) is the location of the three distilling columns (two continuous
(C) is tne storage and distribution area for purified alcohol. This
about 10 meters high.
(D) Crude alcohol storage tanks which are about 10 meters high.
located at Pioniero
jee Exhibit-A for
(B)
is a red brick two-story building for storage.
The main building
and contains, in
departments.
and one batch.).
brick building is
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(P) is the main gate through. which all employees pass. The check system was rather uniqpe
here. Each employee as he passed through tile gate had to punch a button. A red or green
light would come on according to chance. If the red light came on the employee was
subjected to an investigation of his person and identity. Depending on the circuit set up
there was a 1:2 to 1:5 chance of getting a red light.
(G) is the power plant, a 20 meter white brick building. Superheated steam was produced
at a pressure of 35 kilograms per square centimeter. The product of tae distillery was
purified alcohol,made from raw alcohol received from district distilleriesland absolute
alcohol made by the method of azeotropic distillation.
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Riga s Spirta Rektifikacijas Iestade
(Alcciii Distillery in Riga)
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3. the Le and Zinc Paint Works in Riga. ,5ee Exhibit (B) for layout
of plant as described below
4. (A) The administration building which included the apartment of the Chief Chemist.
(B) The laboratory.
(C) The zinc oxide packing division. 50X1
11:) .) The zinc oxide division.
The lead white chambers (old type).
(F) The lead white dryer.
(G) The lead white division.
(H) Storage
(I) The lead oxide furnace
Cs) The barrel division.
(K) The acetic acid division.
(L) The machine snap.
04) The power plant, and boiler (approximately 500 H.P.).
The buildings are approximately three stories high on the average, although the height
varies with the function in that area. The building was designed around the process.
There was a 30 ft brick wall on both sides of the administration building to enclose the
whole area. The input capacity of the plant was about five thousand pounds of zinc and
five thousand pounds of lead per day. This was the largest factory for mineral paints
In the Baltic States. The lead and zinc was imported from other countries. The products
of the plant were (a) lead minium, normal and for high dispersion from lead white; (b) lead
white; (c) paint quality zinc oxide; (d) chemically pure zinc oxide; (d) lithcrone,
Lead and Zinc Paint Works in Riga
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729, 35m
715.3' 35m
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