SHORTAGES IN CHEMICALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004800260010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 15, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Yugoslavia, Which has been Czechoslovakia?o most important source of pyrites,,
reduced its deliveries of the ore towards the end of 1948 and stopped then -
completely in March 1949. This put the Czech chemical industry in a verY 50X1-HUM
precarious position, since it had only a two weeks, supply of pyrites on hand.
4. In order to fill deliveries of sulphuric acil for Poland, the chemical industry
has been conpelled to process pure sulphur, and this has exhausted all of its
reserves of sulphur.
5. The shortage of soot became so acute last year that the chemical industry
was forced to burn its stock of naphthalene in order to rroduce nnnt
6. Deliveries of phosphates from Africa and South America have ceased, rrobably
as a result of Russian pressure. /n lieu of these phosphates, the USSR is
furnishing Czechoslovakia with phosphates from Vie Kola peninsula; at the
same time it gives technical advice on their use. These phosphates do not
decompose readily and must be heated and treated under pressure. Moreover,
they often arrive in crude form?they are not sorted out and are full of
gravel and earth.
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' 7. There is a shortage of organic products which are required in the production
of dyes having a tar basis.
8. There is also a shortage of organic dissolvents, such as methane, formaldehyde .
acetone and anhydride, and of other miscellaneous items required for Improving
finished goods.' This is especially true in the production of dyes, tho treat?
ment of leather, the, rubber industry, and the electrical :industry.
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