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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100010069-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Sequence Number: 69
• Content Type: REPORT

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22 Feb~~us,ry 1930, "Die Chemische Industrie," No. 8
. The government has requested funds from the Parliament to expand the
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State Gunpowder Factory in Vihta~raori. ~ spec~,~,l section is to be set up
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_ nitroglycerine. Previously this type powder has been made only in small
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~ 14 March 1936, "Die Chemische Ind,~Gtri P;" Noy 1.1
q The funds were voted by Parliazrserit and production of nitroglycerine
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and nitroglycerine powder is to start this year, ~
9 January 1937: "Die Chemische Indust_rie," No, 2
1 A near compan~,r, "0~ Y. Q.muns," with a capital of ten million ~rlk, ~~,s
been founded in Helsinki. It will erect a factory in Rawas for the produc- '
t,_~n of aanmunition and other war material.
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The government has asked the Parliament far 4.~ million Fmk for the ~ '
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erection of a new division in the State Gunpowder Factory to produce dyne- e
mite and similar explosives: This is especially desirable because the
only factory in Finland which produces dynamite, although it could probably
cover domestic requir emersts, is n an unfavo~-able location from a aef�ense
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point of view, in Hangs, on the coast. '.~'t~e a ~a-~~ uuit,~uwuCr r mac: Ivry i~
already producing nitroglycerine and at~ler important intermediate products -
for the production of explosives.
~7 November 1937, "Die Chemische Industrie," No. 48
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li~ament has granted the funds for the erection of the new dynamite
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factory near Jyaskyia (in Central Finland.
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