RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ELBE-SPREE-ODER CANAL PROJECT AND THE SENFTENBERG COAL MINES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002000010006-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 28, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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1NFORMATION REPORT
Germany (Russian Zone) SSR :
Relationship between the Elbe-Spree-Oder
Canal Project and the Senftenberg Coal Nines
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Department of STA EarIshorst is now considering putting into
Plane made ta 1939 bv the German innistry of Transport for the
of at dier Ml. Geral Kvasbnin,.,chief of the
- of larinhorstt has aihed that thin& plans be sObmitted
approval. The 114 at Cottbus has ordered the local
ih nor the fnrthordlnO, Of thits protect through agitation in
unc,tl. IN. thio 407 thOltnitianoi6ald avoid takin7 the
eet and exemte the 4hode plan as though they were acting
wishes of the tiottbist ciirle authorities.
from the economic advantages to bedhtetted fruw sat& a water link, the
has been given further impetuS bone of the fact that the Western
or tt4 Selentifie and Teennicai Departnent of the Soviet Ministry for
tIlloOlin.yeiabensee has oho wn ooh interest in the problem of
the ttaneportation of brown cO1 ftmthe open cast weeks in the
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on cit the open oast
ioh are twee/nine akhen#tOld. deep m?nes, since further reams
have been discovered endernemth the pfesent svelte* ones.
The Soviet agency at nerlift-meissetise is arpertmetting with hydrogenation nnd
brielaetttng processes, nnd for this pOtt0100 hits' been sending for sample ship-
Moots of coal Avoitn the Demists Basta OW! Mbilne it With coal from the Senftenberg
area, with a view to obtaining highericuality- products than can be manufactured
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iffrudhi t,enftenberg, and not floe versa. No eiplanation was given for the
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