YUGOSLAV COAL FIELDS AT RASA AND PODLABIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200730004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 18, 1949
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE A NCY REPORT
efOUNTRY TU4P*1&V1K CONFIDENT,
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1,. The managing director of the coal fields at Rasa and Podlabin, which are
run as a combined concern, is Engineer !tiro Trwapus. $e is assisted by a
state commissar.
The ddef eenginew at Podlabin is Rnaaieear Ybeetin-
The following are the daily production figures of the combined concern
since 1943:
1943 : 3,000 to 4,000 tons a day
1945 s 2,000 tons a day
1947 s 2,000 tons a day
1948 : 400 to 50o tons a day
The drop in production for the current year is caused partly by a shortage
of skilled personnel and outworn equipment, but mainly `.y the flooding of
the mines in February 1948, rim over 400 miners lost their lives.
some 4,000 are employed in the mines, including about 50o deren P( 'a.
Won make up some 60 percent of the workers employed on coal washing and
on other surface tasks.
CLASSIFICATION
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EQRET DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77
Auth: DDA REG. 77/1763
DATE DISTR. 18 an 1949
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8o foal loading faoillties in the port of Rasa, I tch w'Or0 damaged during
the wat have been oomlet*ly . The ei*t-tm traveUtYng
a has been fmaat3oaing sine 50X1-HUM
the and of 19Itl. The aa'ax lifts the coal frca cars of fivs.-ton
capacity which bring the ooaal to the part on an electric railroad frc *
-he mine. A oval trinaporter band, capable of handling 110 tons of
ami an hoar, loads the co" straight an to the, aM *
SFrf 1C'/CONTRQL - U.S. -(FFTCT L ONLY
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