AIRCRAFT FACTORY, SNINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002500480005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECURITY INFORMATION
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form 19 prohibited.
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Aircraft Factory, Snina
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 15 October 1953
NO. OF PAGES 4
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES 50X1-HUM
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE. DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The new aircraft factory at Snins. (R 49/ 96)1 is located in a suburb to the east
of the center of the town. The plant is bounded in the north by the Sirkena Hill,
in the east by a path and the Magurica Hill, in the south by the Snina - Stakein
(R 49/A 06) railroad line and the highway running parallel to the railroad; in
the west the factory is bounded by the Snina - Humenne (R 49/E 86) railroad line,
which skirts the town of Snina in a loop and then runs southward. This railroad
line crosses the Prolinka brook, which forms the western boundary of the plant.
2. This factory is being built under the Five-Year-Plan. It is to go into full
production on 28 October 1953 and is to employ 3,000, workers. Most of the farm-
'land in the area has been turned into pastureland cooperatives and most of the
inhabitants of the neighboring villages have been recruited for work at the plant.
3. At the time of observation, . the. building workers engaged in constructing the plaint
numbered about 700 men. The majority of them were brigade workers from the neigh-
borhood. Another 300 workers were employees of the Czechoslovak Construction Works
(Ceskoslovensko stavebne zavody - CSSZ). The building administration of the CSSZ
at Humenne, under the control of Prtmyslove stavby (Industrial Constructions),
Kosice branch, is supervising the administration. Most of these 300 workers are
women. They were retrained by employees of the First Brno Machine Shops (Prvni
brnenska strojirna); 30 mechanics and 10.specialists came to Snina to train the
new workers. Foremen for the individual departments are Czechs sent here by the
First Brno Machine Shops.
4. In Assembly Hall No. 1 there is a large number of heavy crgnes. In Assembly Hall
No. 2 there are inneerous- lathes, 50 drilling machines, as well as milling machines
and grinding machines. There are also several vertical revolving lathes and
capstan lathes. The machines were arranged for mass production.
5. Electric power is supplied to the factory by the Krompachy power station. Entry
to the factory is by a road from Snina to the railroad station. Materials for the
factory are brought in over a railroad spur from the station.
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6. Complete aircraft engines are manufactured in Assembly Hall No. 1, and from the
appearance of this hall it isi$iduced that entire aircraft will be assembled there
with the assistance of the heavy cranes; the height of the hall also indicates that
it is to be an assembly hall.
7. The small parts workshop (No. 2 on the annexed sketch) manufactures aircraft parts
for the Rudy Letov Plant at Prague-Ietnany.
8. Semi-finished products for machining are supplied by the East Slovakian Machinery
Works (Vychodoslovenske slevarhy), in Kosice, and by CED Krivan. The East
Slovakian Machinery Works was built on the site of the former Kosice airfield; it
employs 3,500 workers and a foundry trainees' school is located close to it.
9. ' New water lines for the plant have been laid, leading from a reserv it on Sirkana
Hill.
10. The administrative offices of the factory are in Snina. The general manager and
the majority of the technical personnel of the factory are Czechs.
11. Employees take their meals in the canteen, in a wooden hut located on the building
site. The fare is rich and good. Tenement houses are under construction west of
the factory, at the'northern end of the town of Snina. Six houses, each with 18 -
apartments, had been built by March 1952.
12. Working morale in the factory is good because the standard of living-of most
workers has been raised. For that reason the majority of the workers were convinced
Communists and engaged in political activities in the factory. In order to attain
greater skill and to exceed the norms, most of the workers worked overtime without
pay.
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Comment: It was previously reported through the same channel that
this ac ory was to be engaged in tank production.
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Comment: The reference is-either to CKD- Krivan, Bratislava; &lso';knvUia
s_ or S lffdW ' as the` X.V."1taiia?-Plant,
of CKD Sokolovo.
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Ieitend: 1. Assembly hall No. 1.
2;. Hall No.'-2 - small parts production.
3. Hall No. 3 - under construction.
4. Hall No. 4 - storehouse.
5. Area marked with pegs for new halls.
6. Wire fence.
.7. Tenement houses.
8. Water reservoir.
9. Kitchen and canteen.
10. Boiler house.
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