AERO NATIONAL ENTERPRISE, PRAGUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004700730004-9
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 4
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
SUBJECT
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DATE OF
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
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IS PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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1. The AERO factory is located in Prague, between CK]) Stalingrad, Rokytka Creek,
AZKG (Auto Praga) and the Cina residential area:' 25X1
The factory employs 7-8,000 workers. It centers around an assembly department,
where the final assembly of the front part of the bodies and cabins is accompli* :ed.
Attached to this department are the sheet-metal section, the pressing department,
the painting department, finishing of supporting parts, local storage rooms and
tool rooms. On the eastern and western galleries of the assembly hall are the
small parts production section, the welders and machinists, and a shop for proto-
types which is presently working,in a limited way, on a new type of helicopter.
On one side of the assembly department is a lathe department, a boiler room, a
shop for preparatory parts and a first aid room. On the other side of the assembly
department are offices, a section-for_construction_ of_prepar__atory :iems,,_a_shee:L
metal storage room, the
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This i loe*tion of "Little Slovakia", which has a lathe department
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milling maw department and a small-riveting Aeloxevna shop.- L L1ttl
Slovakia" is "Big Slovakia" which includes the main assembly' for tai a and the
production of various other accessory parts s_uch as tanks,.. etc. A __
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depots is a so-called 33i1v (white House), ere are located offices and a
main construction shop. Behind this bmilding the Regie (repair and maintenance)(
shops, a small boiler room and a wood--work ng spartment ;,
Production at the factory has been cut 30-50%; the production capacity has been
reduced from five bodies to two or three. This figure fluctuated, however, from
day to day.
4. The cut in production resulted in a work shortage, with a number of employees
having to leave the factory. The present 18W average pay, 5-6 Kcs., has also
impnchred the workers' morale.
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_the sanding department and various storage places.
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5. Part of the plant is being moved
moved to the new location. The a
before the end of the year.
'6r ' tl ,* M M03 was to be moved
6. The production of a new, faster, and otherwise improv
the near future.
scheduled for
7. The factory is guarded by plant police manning three louses and by
Internal Security Tamps, keeping watch from two wo. ,s and, at night,
Ca entt Otherwise known as the Vysocany Plant of Aero
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Enterprise, loeated at ul. Julia'Fucika 305, Prague IX,
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