UNITED FACTORIES FOR INDUSTRIAL PORCELAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800010007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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t: UNTR` Czecho`lovak
SUBJECT United Factories for Industrial Porcelain
PLACE 25X1 A
ACQUIRED
DATE DJSTR, 30 50
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DATE OF SUPPLEMENT TO r) GO
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A new p1 nt of the United Factories for Industrial Porcelain which produces
porcelain used in electrotechnical works and atomic plants is being built at
Louny (faun - N51/F 21) n This will be the largest plant of its kind in ` rope,
Iu the r esntine the rest of this nationalized trust has undergone a roorgani-
za.tion to speed production,
Under the reorganization the 14 coryponent vvLants of the corporation are divided
into three groups with headquarters at :tare Role (?pit Rohlau - N51/P 69) Q
Praha (051/L 8)., and Potocna n. rlosnou (Tiefenbach - 051/G 36). A total of
yOOO : en are employed by the compa ..
The, first group at Stare Role is managed by Herinans a Comviunist, and consists
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of the following plants
a,, Plant ttco 1 at Ater .in (T'lorkclsgrt - N51/f( 60) produces industrial porce-
lain for low and high tension electric lines. A new center for research
on insulating porcelain has recently been built here. It tests insulators
up to 500,000 voltso A nev testing plant which will test i.nsul..atprs up to
a million volts is soon to be put into operetion. This plximt will contain
the most im-orta.nt e?ectrif icntion ectti meat in all of Czechoslovakia because
It cart he used to test special radar parts and insulators used in atomic
plants. The plaint was to have boon set in operation after it received
special con Tenser paver from Sweden in January 1950
b,, Plant No. 6 at h s (M51/P ll) produces pyrostat and pressed industrial porce-
Jain.
Plant No, 7 at Klenci (:150/1' 60) forwierly a ilosenthal factory, makes special
materials for radio and radar manufacture.
Plant No, 12 'at Stare Rose produces porcelain for high tension insulators
and is the site of the Joint Coramic Research Institute.
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letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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.1 Itrasnov, a c. "ttuu.sty and consists of
The second gr?)ap, at t ralt serf-:stein travels frequently to lEnglaxd where he tries
to purchase ceramic materials from the US Titanium Alloy Corcorat ion, repre-
sented in 1,n laracl by the Union Oxide Uororation
1The "rdednci Plant No, 7 ex-!ploys about 200, mostly yomen, and is managed by Karel
!. aa CCzec?2, and a Comp: u nist since February 19tj8., He is about 35 years old,,
io 175 cm., tall 3 weighs 70 'r s 4 N is blond with blue eyes and wears ,,lasses
here is a factory :Al .tla of 20 known mea:~bers azr ed with 2,ci ; with
20 rounds
of a;.runi tion . .:ern~_ers of the militia include.-
lose s Saxe: , a Czec.r and a fanatical Cora-'mrtist He is ',0 `rears old, is
.165 c-1. tall, sir ,"?hs 66 kgs ~ ,q is blond i,,rith ?:raoen eyes, and vicars glasses o
II c is married.
Cndr'e .,auCr, a Czech and a dangerous Co minis', is 30 years old, is 165 cm,.
tall.., 65 kits o of Mculllrrt build, with darn, hair. Bauer was apprenticed
ru 5 a barber, has been married and is ncs r divorced.
C,, Josef 'xajbi, a ::zeds, 35 years old..
da Lart.i.n Benes, a Czech, years old,, formerly a school janitor:,
e? Jwn iaai_cr.fe a Czech, 1a0 years old, ~.or aerly a tailor.
The factory is guarded by tea civilian guards by day and by two factory militia
and two members at rii ; rt, A barbed vrire fence 22 meters high surround; the
factory,, The militia also patrols the woods around the factory.
,. ? w1ipment in the factory includes three coal ovens which burn fate or six carloads
of coal per week and five. electric furnaces Production includes industrial
porcelain for use as Lisula;.?ors, parts of resistors, switches, and parts of radio
r cei.ver?s, transmitters and radar., To or three carloads of porcelain articl- s
are slaipped frtw, the factory every week.
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