1. SYNTHETIC PETROLEUM AND TANK PRODUCTION IN THE USSR 2. MILITARY TRAINING OF SATELLITE COMMUNISTS IN THE USSR

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R008300150003-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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snper~.orlty +af ~llicd tanks over Sav~:et models, The S?evi.ets hesitst:~ to amass-~
produs:e a tank wh3.ch uri.l~. 'prove disadvantageous against newer i3rit%s~i and t3~S,,
rmrxirZ.s., Th~-refore, this USSR has sent CSranan tank specialists s'rca~- one o~? the
Hssrsig plants and from a p~.arit in Breslauv~tiundsfeld? Geraa, to tank factor~.es
in Chely~abinsls aah?x?e T~34./11. tanks are being produced, These speciali~3ts
repor~te~.ly have cans?,ructed a diesel tank combining the advantages of the fi-..~~
and the T~~-fib, in;.lud~.ng bettor araaaanient~, opeed, visi~a~.lit~r, and a ~.nwer
silhouette? Ado model nuanber has been assigned a.s veto The $orsig plants
together c~I.th a factory in Konigshut~, Germany, are intensivel~r producing motors,
armo~?g and parts far these tariks~
The S~:zpreaaze U.`aSR Array Council (sic) has approved a prograrm whet?eby oe~,ain ntaanbers
of selected young; Coaa.~aunists from ~3ulgs.ri.as ,Ru:~,n~.a~ peilarAd~ C,sechoslo~as.k~..c:,~ and.
9iT~`~?ee G~?ecacet' are to attend various 5ovict Ta3.litary schools, 1)uzi.n~ .l~~l~} SCfJ
~~dets,; iTxcluding 50 fxrec~ks~, axe ;r*;; e~nrol:l. ire the Timoshenko ti1:~Iita.xq Sr~'a.n~t.z~~
~ca~t~ i,n Kiev, the ~7taAa.n F~es:hanized Acat3eaTry ira Piosca~~a, a~'id the Ve~z^arshalov
c.~uara~y in ?~nscowo A sma1.1. number" of scientists are to be cargful.~?.y s~;lec~ ed
fr~un ~~~ satell.t,es far speoxalizect studies at t.Yie ini~ita.ry Acr?.deaaas~ ?'ar CY~emmd,ca~.
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:, In the Soviet Union a special aomaaa~.ttee has been asei~;ned to e~~aains ~srad solve
the great problem a inadequate ?3.l produrtian caused by the ~.ncreas~a in
acti.vi.tg of S~oviefaavaly airy and rmechanizea forces., Thus fare th~.s ee-aa~i.ttee
has initiated ?Pincreased effart,s" to disco~rer new oil fS.elds i.n the vrarioa.s
republics of Central, 1~sia.~ such as Kazakhstan, 8ynt~hetic petroleum 9'acteries
are to be set, up in ~ spito of the fact. teat such production is three i;i,mes ag
costly as natural production", These factories are to be built far inl~rnd,,
the ent~ of 1.951 b twcs large synthetic pa~traleuan factories diszaiaaatled :t'r~a ~~.st
Gem are te, be set up in the ~harkaw area-of the Ukraine., In the Kursk area,
twp a.3ready ea~,sting Soviet: synt,hetir. ~setrolewn factories are to be en3.arger~d"
2~hera these factories are complete, the 5arrd.ets plan to produce ~,5 miZ..Z~.r~n. tans
a~' synthetic petroleum annually
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