AMMUNITION FACTORIES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015000180004-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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JJ 'ELLOFAX 19
FORM NO. 51-4AA
FEB 1952
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Ammunition Factories
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OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Many ammunition factories in Rumania are built either underground or half
underground. Their code name is URS, followed by a number. These factories
produce only parts for arms and ammunition, which are assembled elsewhere.
In some cases, the parts for a single item are manufactured in ten different
factories.
2. Eighty percent of the workers in these factories are Soviets (including some
German war prisoners),, and 20 percent are reliable Rumanian Party members.
All workers live and eat in the factories and may leave them only during the
weekend. The factories are eauipped with dormitories, dining rooms, and
automatic laundries.
The following three factories are known:
a. URS 8, underground, location not known. It employs approximately
600 to 700 workers and produces propellers for aircraft.
b. URS 11, underground, location not known (either URS 8 or URS 11 is
near the Doftana prison at Campina). It employs approximately 600
to 700 workers. No details are known about the production.
c. URS 44, half underground, in a forest about 10 kilometers from the
village of Onesti, near Targu-Ocna and Bacau. It employs approxi-
mately 400 workers, and produces parts for arms and ammunition.
These parts have code figures, which are used in card indexes. These
cards show costs and are signed by a colonel of the Tudor Vladirnirescu
Division in the War Ministry. Each card shows the code figure of the
item in question, such as 1.22, A.18. Raw materials are also known
by letters and figures. One item produced in this factory is A.18,
an aluminum item, probably a hand grenade shaft.
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d. URS 44 can be reached by automobile in 15 minutest drive through
the forest from the highway. The factory, with its large number
of small windows with iron frames, and panes reinforced with wire
netting, resembles a fortification. From the front, the entire
building seems hidden by a thick layer of concrete, and all sides
are screened by trees. The entrance to the building is about
three meters above the ground and it is reported that there are
three underground stories. There is a large machine hall 30
meters long and brightly illuminated,which contains a large num-
ber of machines and operators. The ceiling has a skylight of
thick glass reinforced with wire netting.
e. The factory has its own power station and air conditioning eQu ipment.
f. The general manager of URS 44 is Stoica, a former worker and an old
and reliable Communist Party member.
The following machinery is believed to have been imported from
Eastern Germany for URS 44: 180 freight cars of machinery, inclu-
ding lathes, large shaping machines, and very large two-armed presses.
4. The factories use dynamite, asbestos, tin, lead, and various chemicals
of German origin. The chemicals are also marked with code letters and
figures.
Cartridge cases are manufactured by the State Mint (Monetaria Statului).
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