ARMAMENT AND AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002700950011-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 2009
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mepn-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Co4e, 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 is prohibited.
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DATE DISTR. 13 November 1953
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. War production in Poland is the charge of Vice-Prime Minister Jaroazewicz. The
central administration of war production or at least a great part of it is camou-
flaged under'the name of the Central Administration of the Machine Industry in
Warsaw.
2. The following factories are involved in war production:
a. Antiaircraft and :antitank guns of calibers up to 44 mm. are probably being
manufactured in a special department of the H. Cegielski plant in Poznan
(now known as the J. Stalin Works). Similar guns are being made in Rzoszow.
b. Guns of calibers up to 150 mm. are being manufactured at the Stalowa Wola
plant near Rozwadow (R51/Q70). This plant has been entirely occupied with
war production. It has remained at its expanded size (twice that of pre-
war size). On 1 August 1953 there were 12,000 people employed there. The
non-military production of this plant was transferred to the Elblag (Elbing)
Factory of Forge Equipment (Elblazka Fabryka Ur7adzen Kuzienrych).
c. Grenade shells are manufactured at two factories in Mikolow near Katowice.
These factories are producing nothing else.
d. Activated carbon is manufactured at an ammunition plant in Slsarzysko. This
plant has grown considerably since pre-war times and manufactures various
kinds of ammunition.
e. Tanks of the Soviet t9 ye T-34 with 200 horsepower diesel engines are being
manufactured in the giant workshops (about 45,000 square meters) of the
Adolf Hitler Steel Plant in Labedy near Gliwice.1 Part of this plant
comprising the former steel works.,which is separated and subordinated to
Huta Ps under reconstruction. There is a canal in the vicinity of
this planleading to the Oder river.
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f. Some parts of tanks and assemblies are being manufactured in the Pafawag
factory in Wroclaw (Breslau). A factory in Rzeszow also manufactures tank
parts.
g. A new tank factory was to be built in Warsaw between the suburbs of Wola
and Powazki.
h. Factories in Mielec, Rzeszow and' stkow are producing aircraft and aircraft
parts. Some parts for aircraft engines are made in a factory at Psie Pole
in Wroclaw.
i. A forge at Us:tron (Cieszyn,Silesia),formerly called the Brevillier and
Urban Forge,is exclusively occupied with production for the aircraft industry.
J. The majority of the production of the Huts, Batory in Chorzow and the Hata
Baildon in Katowice-Dabrowa is for the aircraft industry and the rest is
for other kinds of war production. It is almost impossible to give them
orders of a non-military nature.
k. Instruments and tools for the aircraft industry are produced in great
quantities at the Huta Zgoda plant in 3wietochlowice.
3. In January 1953 a professor in radio communications at the Gdansk Polyteohnical
Institute, Pawel Szulkir},t%ho was also director of the institute at the time,
was suddenly transferred with all of his newly equipped radio laboratory to the
Military Technical Academy in Warsaw.
Comment: probably referring to what is now known as 25X1
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