SHALE CEMENT POWER AND TEXTILE INDUSTRIES IN ESTONIA; POSSIBLE URANIUM PROSPECTING

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007000690010-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 19, 1955
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains inioeenatlon asecting the national Zlefenae at ths United Skates within the meaning of the Tspionage Laws. Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the trana,nlasion or revelation of which In aDy manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited by law.
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
USISR,(Estonian SSR)
Shale,.Cement, Power, and Textile
.Industries in Estonia; Possible
Uranium Prospecting
NS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS T NTATIVF
1. The shale gasirorks at Kalhtla-J urge; which s lies s to both Tkili
Leningrad, is controlled Pros W eeow.
=it is common knowledge that great on an ernisation bava;accuread
there' Kohtl&-J rXe.'and Ahtme are both near towns. The mines at Kahtla-Jgrve,
Kivioli, Sillam4, Ku ruse, and Goldfields '(former British-owned mines) are
producing as tell as sex mines at Ahtae and Ubja. The first-grade shale is
refined into oil and gasoline in-refineries at KiviiSli, KbhtlaqaArve,and
SillwAe.. The second-grade stale is sold for heating factories in Estonia
and Russia.
2. The cement and brickworks at Aaeri is Dot working. The cement works at Kunda,
on the coast north of Rakvere, is,thus, the only cement works operating in .
Estonia. Although it now supplies the whole of 'Estonia, most of its production
is sent to Russia, It i transferred from Estonian control to direct control
by a ministryl_ In Moscow in 1952'.
3, Its buildings have not been changed since before World War II It yziff__~or_
merle a Danish c ncern
Much of the cement produced is shipped by
e cm un bor, to Tallinn and to Leningrad. At least one train-
load
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junction; it in not unloaded there
All cement consuased in stonia s 38stie clugh a istr K,.+4
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epot in
Tallinn. There is a considerable scmareity of cement in Estonia. All Estonian
users have to 'wait their.-turn on a long list kept by the distributing center
in Tallinn.
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Electric Power
? A huge new hydroelectric parer station is being built at the Narva waterfall.
It is to be ready within the Fifth give-Year .Plan, but nobody knave when
this began. According to the nevs"rs, this station is to supply the
whole of Estonia.
Rakvere is supplied with electric power by a they tation at Pussi,
b1tween Rakvere and J8hvi, supplies Kahtla-
Jerve.
6. The Kreenhola, Kalevi Vabrik.and Patti Manufaktur (formerly Lina Vabrik)
`extilelkil{ls at Narva have been working at full pressure for several
years l~aasst.
l~.iscellaneous
7. The following 'installations are also known to be working:
Railroads and docks.
b. At Mardu,near Tallinn: The Forforiit Pphosphorite Works, which is to
a. At Tallinn:
d. At Kehra:
e. At Kardla:
f . At ~S,inn~d,~i :
g. At Loksa:
h, At Tootsi:
be connected to the production of superphosphate
during the Fifth-Five-Year Plan.
The K"31 whine Works.
The Volta Electric N Whine Works.
The RET Radio Works (Making broadcast receivers).
The Luther Furniture i tOr j-.
Br ibkworks .
Cotton #in.
Cellulose Works.
Cellulose works; 40 ha east-southeast of Tallinn.
Textile mills; on the north coast of Hiiuasa
Island,
Textile 411o; eight km east of P rnu.
Brickworks.; 60 ka east-northeast of ftllinn.
Briquette ftctory; 20 km northeast of pl:'3rnu.
Glass works; 75 km south of Tallinn.
At Jairv$kLndi :
8.
Early in 1952, an area near J8hvi was fenced off, while Russians worked
within the fences and carried truckloads of earth away to Russia for testing.
According to local rugs at the time, the Russians were looking for uranium.
Evidently they found none, for the fences were removed and the area is now
clear again.
It is not true, as the Russians allege, that they have turned Estonia from
an agricultural into an industrial country. In the shale-producing area
only has industry been notably expanded,
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