TESLA NATIONAL ENTERPRISE IN SLOVAKIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005900020006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. As a result of the dismember-dent in 1914.8 of the Tesla National T:ntexpri;,:;
as it was formed in 1946, t1rere: were several enterprises bearing the nave
of TeslaP Because of the popularity of the name, hozever, it will probably
not be discontinued, although the substitution of the name of some Sovicb
electrical onk;ineer in place of the Yugoslav Tosla, has beer., considered
for the rntisiava plant (P49/.:99).
2.. The man .,event, of the Tesla rational. 11'.nterprise in 'Iratislava has not
yet been established., The plant is managed by persons who concentrate
crrsiduaously on the operation of this one factory, but according to the
urrertt ar_-angoaent, Tesla should also. direct the ')olni ::cabin plant
(Q'`0/.:91) the Kro; mach; copper plant (1th9/E06) Q eventually the sr.iaiL
Olectrical sup )lies and e ltuipracrit factory bein0 built at Liptovs .y tlradcec
1,.r'rO/D20) will be placed under Teslaps custody as well,
3?i T'sla T a production progran includes three types of radio sets and stand: rd
t:.ectric light bLlbsa It lacks a development departuent of its orm, anl,
psrt4 are del S.uerec fro 1.'1(71 a.i.n yes1i factory in Prix te;
The 3rat-i slava plant,, employing 800 persons, consists of one-story co c t ate
buildings 1'vrith brick veneer., It covers an area of about 10,000 sq. r. ;tc . ,s
and is located bettacen the llynamit-Nobel plant and the city of Brat? ; lav x,
The equipment consists of light presses, a few machine tools, drill pros^c.?
special threading mac'.ihies, welder, and a light bulb production line: rrtiich
consists of Gei ran machines capable of producing three-quarters of a i:tillior:
bulbs a:c1nuelly. This equipment has gas burners a or f onning the glass, and
is about 12 years old,, It will have to be replaced with new 1achines, and
prototypes for six out of a total of eight or ton new machines have already
been dcsi : aed and conk tra.cted by Tcchna. Up to now, hovrever, there is no
iaaown factory rfhich is willing to accept the cormdssion of building these
complicated mac'.1inc;; for Teslao
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