TESLA KARLIN AND TESLA STRASNICE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PLANTS IN PRAGUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005600020008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws. Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
Tesla Karlin and Tesla Strasni.ce
Electrical Engineering Plantsin Prague
DATE DISTR. 23 December 1951+
NO. OF PAGES 01.1
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Tesla Karlin
1. Among the principal products of Tesla Karlin National Enterprise in Prague-
Karlin are telephone exchanges, telephone sets, and other telecommunication
equipment. During the last months of 1953 normal production was considerably
hampered by an acute shortage of metals such as copper, nickel, high-grade steel,
etc., which resulted in the inability of the factory to carry out export orders
of telephone exchanges ___Large numbers of workers in the factory
were idle at that time and drew only a basic salary. The shortage of raw materials
eased at the beginning of 19511., and normal production has been resumed.
2. The factory also turns out telecommunication equipment such as field telephones
for the armed forces. Research and experiments with a new type of field telephone
for the Army were started in 1953. At the first trials of the new equipment, it
was discovered that it did not function properly in severe cold. The telephones were
also tried. out during the Army maneuvers in 1953.
Tesla Strasnice
3. Tesla Strasnice National Enterprise in Prague-Strasnice employs approximately 800
workers in two shifts, the majority of -them women. Approximately 300 television
sets .are turned out by the factory per month, but a large number of sets is reportedly
lying in the factory's storerooms due to lack of customers.
1.. Some production of a military character, believed to be concerned with radar equipment,
is carried on by the factory under the greatest secrecy, protected by strict security
precautions. Part of the production area is "off. limits" to all factory employees
not working there.
5. A broadcasting station, believed to be controlled by the Army, is located near the
factory premises.
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