SCHKOPAU DUNA PLANT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008700230004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL TEI-LIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
TOTI!lz
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
err (Russian Zone)
Semmpau Duna Plant
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23 October 1951
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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;:, n opau .L una p ent, no ch.eriicol wryrf" rc ?cF ?ents are produce
in the plant. roison 4;asos such as chloride, nitrogen, acetylene, and potassium
cyanide are, processed in the plant. Fowever, these ac,ents are part of the
current production. of the plant and are require( for the ncrwfacturo of :7una
rubber. Sorle of these ac;ents are also supplied iron other plants, such as the
otassiun cyanide knoun as "C3" which comes from the ilschor plant in i,eipzic
L 52/--,-, 21) 4n-a. it used. in the "J 7:" dope.rtment of the Puny &lant for Ihrzrdon-
inc.
2. Ship :erttts of about 29000 tons of parnlde. rde, a b, product of Bursa production,
loft the ehko--eau Uutiv plant in 195l.. The Paraxol"(possibly para--dichloro--
benzeno) factory in 14..eck;rloi e (i+ 53/V 02) near Koen ,dsvausterhauson,, which
vras co:.'pleto1y dismantled in 19159 used paraldehyde processed from, pentaer,jtLRrite
(C (OI}SOH) OH)~the procuction of explosives. It is ass ed that the ;: ,:c
procedure: is nov: being used in the ; .3. ,.R. This vould explain the large shinn,-
rents of paraldehyde l.oavir:f' 3ch1 opau . **
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Cthemz Not fm-th ' identified.
orzcnt. T'entacirythriteis chemically related to iClycerine and, iz, uses as
a f e `"Ior paint in s and in the pros uatio t of varnishes. Pentaerytharito..
tetrnnitrate, abbreviated: T+itropenta, is produced by nitrating, pentaerythrite,,
It is a comparatively- heat-resistant e:r:plosive a, ent with a detonation speed
oC more than t3,000 _ etera Iz secoM (sic)c,
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