CKD PLANT AND LET PLANT IN CHOCEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009300400016-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: December 4, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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The Ceskornoravska Kolben 7)anek plant in Chocen manufactures various typos
of ref ri orator s, abut Co percent of which are cxportcd to the US i 16.*
Shortly after 'Jorld .Jar II this plant, ;?faich at that ti lc m nufactured only
Sokol sports planes, becaoc part of IZi Nation a1 Cor `orat on. The Lianufactu o
of inuluctrialrcfriF orators was :.)c;:un at that timo, and in the rcorgcnizatlon
of 1950 the ccction of the ;plant producing was c arated frn'2
the rest of the factory and _-uabo_^d_alated to CKD, Pra ;ze-Libcn., .t the pr.r ccnt
tine, the two mutually independent plants, occupy the same plant site in
Cliocen. The 01:1) plant employs about 600 ;;or1cers, incluc :ng about 60
The plant :na,ia, er is 'F'ltys., about 50 ;;years old, a ConnurrLst. His deputy
is ?ra.iti.sck '.tajner, about IV') years olc., a Coruiuni,t. The rror,':s'hop militia
rr nbe^s about 35 .:pen, ar. icd with r_f1c s. This trill tia serves the shop3 both
of 0IW and LET,
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In ''arch 1951 the prototype and production ?)lans for a new refrigcrator viore
reccSivcd by t1:e Chosen n- a.nt front CK!)- o!colovo in Prague. Production of
of t` o refrigerator was began in 4pr9.l. total of 20 ecrlnlc to r fr3,
eerator-s tiro produced dsrin;; and ITIay 1251. The pror'uction cost of
one rcfr.'..,rraLor wa about 5')0,000 Kcc. All parts c.:cent the electric motors
svncl some foi';;1 1; .> i' rr produced at the hocen plant. insrcotors
visit the plant ron"Uhly to accept the items for export to the 'JSS2.
A s:iall nuunbcr of Sokol planes are still produced by the ITT -?lant. It is
tr? .'cued 19_'-e1y t- at t:i_s nror:uctvon will be ca:r-I.ctcly ',-al-;cc in t-, :ices
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j: Cor icnt: This jr port. conf_r"n1s infer ; ation on the 0hrr~en plant
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