BERLINER BERSEN-SEITUNG, NO. 309

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100010087-5
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
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Skoda and Tatra-Ringheffer are both working on armaments orders for ,
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Moravaka Kolben-Danek) an order for 46 small tanks..
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The Skoda plant in Pilson is undoubtedly the largest armament indus-
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try. It has a capital of ~~0 millionl~Kc and employed 26,00 persons in
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tories; the plant in Pilson has 434,000 square meters of bu~.lt�up area,
the remaining plants 318,000 square meters. Subsidiary plants are in f
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~ Mlada Boleslav, ~fena~g$rats Hradrec kralove. The Komarno factory is
in Hungary. ?n the Sudeten area there are brown-coal mines and limestone
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The Czech Armaments Plant, Inc. in Brno has a capital of 70 million Kc ~
.,~a r,Yra nvAr 10.000 persons. It produces hand weapons machine guns,
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aricraft engines, precision instruments, etc. The plant ~.s povazska Bve-
trica produces artillery shells and ammunition for pistols and revolvers.
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The Czech Ammunition and Metal Plants, inc., in Bratislava; merged with the
Armaments Plant in 1933.
The Bohemian A.rmem~nts Factory, Inc. in Prague, writh production plants
- in Strakonice, has a capital of five million Kc and employs up to 2, 500
ersons. Amon other items it produces Machine puns, automatic pistols, army ~n_ T
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and about 350 employees. It has a factory in Rokycany, which produces ex-
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The A~unit~lAn F~ctor~,~a~ i'mrmerly Sel~.~.er and BPhet, lr~catec~ ire .
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' Prague, with factories in Vlasim, Bohesla, have a capital of 18 mill~.on
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Kc. They produce military and aircraft a~munition of all sorts, as well
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as er�illex~y detenators, fuses, etc. The plant in Vlasim was built in
1935 36~ 2,30G worker>~ are employed in ~.t. ~~e stic~ck Leld by the Amet-
rian Ste Plant inc. wa,s obtained by the Bohemian Industrial Bank in
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' The "Explosil "firm, the Czech Exp~.osive Materials Corporation, has ,
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hp rroduction of ex losives. The company was founded by .
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~ the Zi~rnostenaka Bank and has capital of 60 million Kc. The factories in
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S~antin near Pardubice bui~.t in 1928, produce all explosives weeded by
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,titir~i industry and the army. The number of employees is given as 1,200. '
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The Synthesis Chemical Plant, inc. has a capital of 30 million Kc
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; and plants in Semtin, near Pardub~.ce. It was founded by Explosia.
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duction in Usti nad Laben and Prague axe exta~r~ora~.nar-:~.~,~ ~..~.r~..�cA.ted.
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(uric acid plant, tZilins) is within the new borders of Czechoslovakia.
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Aircraft plants are centered a.n and ar gt y
the "Aero" Aircraft Plant in ~ Prague Vysocany, founded i n 1919; the Avia
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1 ercent of which is owned by Skoda; Benes and i~raz in
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Kolber-Danek Corporation, with a capital of 37.5 million Kc' which supports
the en inc plant in Prague-Laben; Zlineka Letecka, in Zlin, with a capital
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