THE LEK PHARMACEUTICAL AND RESEARCH PLANT, LJUBLJANA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002800500008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 10, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

25X1
C rSIHGAT ON .2' _
Approved For Release 2003/08/11: CIA-RDP82-00457R002800500008;
LENIRAL ISNT LL:GI_NCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
Co U N"f RY Yugoslavia
INFORMATION REPORT
CON I L
SUBJECT The L JC Pharmaceutical and Research
Plant, Ljubljana
PLACE
ACQUIRED C
DATE Ott" INFO.
DATE DISTR. 10 x 49
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
25X1
SUPPLEMENT TO
25X1
25X1
25X1
THIS DOCTINEM COtiTfi C It,E?3i?#5(5417)67 A8F'ECT CCG T(UX FSHTFOi1dL D&FCC:C
OF THE CRISCO S.AYSO rlI' ela TII& LIF? MI00 OF THE COPICKAGE ACT ZO
a.;3. C.. EI A:dr 02. AS A&E OVD. ITS 1,aANSVIf5;OC Ol: T112 REHEI4TIOF9
OF ITS COL55ENTS IN ANT ?IAPNTt1: TO AN ONAJTEORIZEO I7:68OO IS PRO.
NI6,1I10 LIT LAW. NZ?>COG$:? 0:1 W THIS FOOD IS PS[OI:I6SYE5..
1,,
2.
25X1
loo
25X1
25X1 REPORT
O 1
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
25X1
r7,
`Irr1.n the last two weeks of December 1948, employees at the LEK Phar-
maceutical and.Research Plant in Ljubljana worked on a twenty-four hour
schedule in order to meet the production quotas set for the year 1918.
Although .104 percent of the production quota was realized, drugs mane-
factured during the. month of December 1943 were not shipped in January
1949 as scheduled because the Cardboard Paper Mill in Ljubljana failed to
supply shipping cases ordered by the LEK plant. As a result of delays in
shipment and poor storage conditions, large quantities of panopita de-
composed.,
Three new drug manufacturing machines (tabietaraki stroji), ordered from
the Skoda works in Czechoslovakia during 1947, arrived at the LEK plant
in December 1948 but, in February 1949, had not yet been installed for
operation,, These machines may be adjusted to operate one, two or three
stamps (pecat) and can produce a total of 6,500 tablets per hour.
Since December 1948, the production of this plant has been rapidly de-
creasing because of shortages of essential raw materials. In January 1949,
the plant@s stocks of lead acetate, panopitn.powder, and streptomycin were
completely exthausted. At the end of January only 100 pounds of sodium
bicarbonate were on hand and glycerine, which had been ordered. from the
Fliva pharmaceutical, plant in Zagreb, had not been received. The LEK plant
also suffered from a shortage of pules for hypodermic injection liquids,
and of wheat and corn, used as solidifying ingredients in the manufacture
of certain drugs.
workers at the LEK plant turn out on an average hourly
rate, 3UO capsules, '00 bottles of syrups, 300 ampules of injection liquids
or 300 sealed capsules. There are an unusual number of accidents in this
plant attributes a lack of security precautions. At the
same a.me, won era consistently sabotage plant operations by simple
methods such as placing an excessive amount of liquid glue on cases of
drugs, packed for shipment, causing the drugs to mold.
During the month of January 1949, the following items were manufactured at
the L MK plant in L jubl j anaa
Drugs:* aspirin, araidop in~ nacot,' astmaoii l.i.n, anncyd, belalumol, bu.ron,
CORIDENTIAL
CLASSIFICAT ION Neftf
STATS: rt^v YSRS DISTRIiUTIOM
--r -----~,
ARSE Y 1R FBI
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
e- ApPFGYPd For 8/11
C 25X1
 roved For Release 2009/0AF?CIt-RDPS2'-L457R002800500008-2
CENTRAL _ Ii 'RL,LIGENCE AGENCY
25X1
beladin, codeine, caffeine, cofepirin, animal charcoal, ealoipot, calcium
carbonate, ephedrine, forraicot,* formaldehyde, hipnal, caliu a hypermanganate,
codeine phosphate, luminal, morphine, sodium carbonate, sodium benzoato,
apispami.n, purgol, pyranidon, pentasol,. sccaline, quinine, streptazol,
,treptosii.
ru creosote laetici, tonicum=gut ro, jecocytrol, laxal, efetusin.
jsules: castor oil
Products for H odemic I n'& bons: ammonium chlorate, amidopyrine,
asVaori 'roam, a ' n, a odea ne, phosphate, codeine besoate, codeine hydro-
chloride, caffeine hydrochloride, calcium carbonate, ephedrine hydro-
chloride, ephedrine chloride, hipnal, morphine hydrochloride, morphine
chloride, sodium carbonate, sodium benzoate, streptoc_anol, socaline,
quinine hydrochloride.
Miscellaneous Product: iron chloride, opodeldon, ea2ml emulsion, aromatic
tincture of iron, belladonna extract.
6. The Institute of Pharmaceutical Research operated by the LEK plant in
Ljubljana is located in the building of the Poijanska secondary school on
Poljanska street. All chemicals and medicaments are analyzed by the
Institute which has two laborgtories, one for the analysis of medicaments
and ,chemicals, and one where properties of inflaanable products such as
ether, petrol and alcohol are studied. ' The chief of he Institute, I riarijan
borer, is a chemical engineer and a recognized expert on industrial
chemistry. Borer inspects most of the drags prepared by Dr. Koch of the
LEK plant in Menges.** Borer is married, has three children and lives
at the L ZK plant, on 13% Celoveka street. is 25X1
d t
oppose
o the present regime in yugpslavidt. o e c ca expert at
the Institute is Professor Miroslav Firs who was a member of the "Catholic
Action" and the Clerical. Slovene Athletic Association (Zvez-, Fantoviskih
Cdeakov) before Dusan Rozman and other Doaobranci officers. The leader
of the Communist Party and UD:B Unix, in the LEK plant is one Vincenc Bran#c,
a member of Titoes partbsans since 1942, who has only administrative
duties at Lek. He is described as 30 yearn old, of medium height, thin
unshaven face, and in poor health. Two sisters, P aae-tja aziuie, a pharmacist,
and Metka Ozinic, a chemical engineer, are employed in the laboratory.
both women are anti-Communist. In addition there are two
c aemica engineers, both .Serbian women, and three laboratory assistants..
Boa ent:
many of tine
pro acts listed, e.g. ormizo , appear to be comme:rcial trade names.
4 ICommente Dr. Koch, a German scientist- was r~,rnrt~
Ito be in charge of the production of pharmaceutical
drugs the I&K factory in Menges.
Approved For Relea POD8/C11' T P82-00457R002800500008-2
25X1
25X1