POWDER FACTORY AND TRITOL WORKS AT SOLLONAU, AUSTRIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R000900010022-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 24, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Austria Mms.sian Zone)
25AD
Potader Factory and 'ritol I-To.rks
at :Sollznau, Austria.
DATE DISTR. 2?; 1 y 19!
NO. OF ENCLS.
UJSTED BELOW
SUPPLEMENT TO
I:EPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORDATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATE$ . AS IV T14IN THE N OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT 5U THIS IS UNEVALUATED HINFOMAi ION FOR THE RESEARCH
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The trhofe area around Soilenau,f : the ? mr hutoa in the north
southwards to the Wiea?sa-I3eczstcac t/Eberaf urth railiw , ?and from tI? t
Trieste hunde, strasse r w~t*,n -de to the east boundary of the -corner
artillery rang, .,is out of bound,- toe civilians. i roads and
tracks inside the ; area are pab si by Yiusoian troops uizo shoot
on sight. ITo non-Pussj n has en Wired the inntal atio since the
Ttassians took over..
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f der and ariianition are stored in n az nes, cons A sting. of t?nlei-
ot bunkers ,sarroun&,ed by o r th ua.Us 4 r eter.i hi;rt. There is no
pov dam factory in this conrlex. Until December 1947, T o erThl ex-
plosions -sere frequently heard in the area bet en Grosses Mittel
and the powder factory these here or greatly 61l .:is ehed (tie or
four in February). Th:, r g azines : dar:agad in the var, but have
been rebuilt by the Ru fans. lobe ,2.d T r acke have been r p ire
and enlarged. Ar anit ., n ?arri ?c s '?a mil., "=t not?? comivoys have
also been , obser red in tLe area,
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This u'as j b:. r deu ; o"jd Ctus'-ing tie iaar but has been con i ete `j rt'e'
I d by the ssia Details o:"' work in. iorogrese are not k ol, n .
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So .anon u as told by a for.eer omp.l yoe t? .t, before the m s2 11.s r
not na 'actured in the t etoxy '. a ; nl brought there to be filled
with high a losiveser r %o the F .T;:1s n-as have not inns x3`- lled ,, y new
n..echinei : n as ine!' t t