VLTAVA MILL, SOUTH BOHEMIAN PAPER MILLS, NATIONAL CORPORATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP93B01194R000900100071-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: October 28, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
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DATE DISTR. 13., r Oct 52
SUBJECT Vltava Mill, South Bol eemian Paper Mills, National NO. OF PAGES
Corporation
PLACE
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1. TI-e Vltava Mill, South Bohemian Paper Lills, (National Corporation, in Lovcovice
near Vyssi Brod (JihoseskE papirny, Vltavsky Nlyn) is located on the river Vltava
in Loveovice. The exact location is shown in the enclosed plan .ee Enclosure
(A). The plant is enclosed by a wooden fence two meters high.
25X1 2. The plant now I I produces wrapping paper, parchment paper, paper napkins
toilet tissue, cellulose, etc.. It is planned to extend the production of
cellulose and, in the event of war, the plant will produce cellulose exclusively.
The factory produces mainly for export, primarily for the Soviet Union,
Switzer:Lnn.nd, i]o_land. Australia and Germany. Only a. -small part of the production
is destined. for the. home market.
The plant has three Diesel locomotives for narrow-gauge railway; from trucks
(with Diesel motors) five tons each; three passenger cars (two Skoda-Tudors and
one Tatraplan). It is euuioped with five large paper-nuking machines. Machine
No V makes parchment paper. The output is _10 thousand '>3.1a-rams in eight hours.
Nacl .nr-, # o VI crl.so uro iuces parchment paper with an eight hour output of 40
thousand kilograms. Lach machine is served by -our men (one foreman, twa helpers,
one supervisor). hachine No II makes "crepe" paper with. an output of 30 thousand
kilograms in ei!ht hours. klachine No I produces colored paper -,,rith an eight-
hour output of Y t.housand kilograms. Nac'hine No III pro duces wrap info: paper
with an eight-hour tl t:-~lrt of 100 thousand 1-ilograr:s. The pro:.-suction o~ ,archment
paper reaches 900 nuinta.Ls in three st:ifts. The parchment, paper is destined
mostly for e.:jort. The, o reduction of dyed paper is approximately 1500 quintals
of paper in three shi ts. The main .,-rt of the produced paper is exported to
the Soviet Union and to Hamburg (the rrooas are transported by river-boats).
The production of the "Icrelepaper is annrximately 900 quintals in three shifts.
T,-e produced roods go to t ~e : oviet Union, Hungary and Bulgaria. The production
of wrapping raper reaches approximately 2.!!(.',0 quintals in three shifts. The
produced goods are I~x:~._rtc.j .o the 5..viet. and other countries;
a Dart is used for the berme TI:F :-I-,, suction of cellulose has been rather
smal ` . T-n the c- urse c f i?e U fro -ii?.:tr,iy ll ire"ight car loaes Trrere
riel :_ ere to a ?.? ;er will in . oval: a an , I!, addition, also to the paper mi11 in
Cisany (Isoravia, .
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!1. The directorate cf the plant is to ct d '
a
e in the plant .tself. The manager o the
plant is Mr (fnu) Kaucky; the labor-manager is i~;r Josef yerat, formerly a butcher,
a devoted Communist. The total number of employees is 1200 workers, working-in
three shifts. Cf these about 200 are skilled workers, 300 are administrative and
technical employees and the rest are helpers. The highest wage of an unskilled worker
is 6000 crowns per month; the lowest wage of an unskilled worker is 2100 crowns per
month.
5. About 50p of the workers are organized in the Communist earty. The workers are Genera.
dissatisfied with the present regime. The Communist Party calls a plenary meeting
once a month; the local branches of the Party call t]eir? meetings three times a week.
The vc;uncer workers are disinterested and do not attend the Party meetings. The same
attitude is shown by the local population w:c i_slike the Communist regime, listen in
to the foreign broadcasts and expect the fall of the Communist rule any time.
6. The plant has its own factory guard who wear black uniforms. The members are armed
with pistols and number about 30 men. There is also a factory militia in the plant;
the members wear blue uniforms with red arm bands.
The militia has approximately 40
members. Its commander is Karel Dusak. The factory guard patrols the plant at night
in the following composition: two men of the factory guard and one man of the State
Security Corps TSNB). The members of the militia are armed with rifles; the members
when not on duty leave these rifles in the plant. The plant has also its om fire
company with a fire engine and an ambulance.
7. Timber is supplied from the near-by forests. A special po.'der for the production of
cellulose is .mported from Italy. Coal is supplied by rail from Ostrava and Duchcov.
dater is ta'.en from the Vltava river; drinking water is purified by special e_iuipment.
The plant is driven by electricity which is supplied by a power-plant in Austria. The
plant has its o.m boiler hall which supplies the whole establishment with steam and
not water. From the Vltava river a concrete canal five meters deep and 10 meters wide
supplies water for a :water turbine.
ENCLOSURE (A): South Bohemian Paper mills, Vltavsky T?ilyn, in Lovcovice
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