CONSTRUCTION OF A URANIUM ORE WASHING PLANT IN THE HORNI SLAVKOV AREA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R002000100004-0
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 16, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION ~; ,:T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE ACENCY REPORT
CD NO.
C Qfi].Qvaia
SUBJECT"
PILACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
Construction of n Ilranium Ore ,.'?eshing,
Plant in the Tiorni ^lsvkov Area
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REPORT NO.
5I QOCU&1I*4 COP4TA1LI3 c#r"ti?4HATIC ARF[CT*NG THE IIIA'AGWAL DIL' S
OVUM =ITI STATES t$3fI17 TH[ t9EAC1R G OP THE ESPIO'.3AOE ACT SO
OA lT9??CON TS IN ART MAHIM?R TO AN UN4U1O4110[IZU PERSON 15 PIB(1
4W33TEfI BA L* ORPRODUCTtO$ OP THIS FORM IS PRDHISITE31
Between 1-,arch and July 1952; an inptailatic.n,, generally cal ed an ore washing
plant,, was under constm: tion near Uranium Ore Mine No l7o A taT,porary building
provided with rooms for the drying of miners` clothes was also under construction
in the area of Mine No 17.
ore washing plant in 1954:;
con:, truc vn work was still under way or is 50X1-HUM
2;; Prior to Yay 1953, when an amnesty was granted for Czech forced laborers, about
8,CO0 convicts, including, Germans, were detained ire camps in the Horni Slavkov
area for work in .Aran:turi ore mines? These convicts were detained in he
following carps.;
Camp No 12, with about 2,8CC convicts
Prokop Cainp, with more 'ahan 30,OOCO convicts
Svatopluk Camp., with about 1,5CC convicts
Lesnice Camp, with about 72,CC0 convicts
After lay 195.39 the nonbir of Czech uonv.-,.crs detained for work in uranium ore
mines dropped considerably, The number of prisoners detained in Carp No 12
decreased to about 701. or 8C0,
The convi-.,cs who were given amnesty were discharged without delay,: one of
these convicts stayed in the iiorni Slavko v area in order to work as free
labcterE~., Detailed figures were not available., It was believed, however, that
the annnest;y has had a detrimental effect on the production of vr'rlvin ore,
Imredi.:.te?..y after the amnesty vent into force? free workerb arrIve:d. in the
Horni lavkov area "rcr, ,.:l.l points of Czeechosiovakia, 1'.any Slovaks were among
these workers They were f roar; 20 to about 150 years old. The arrival of such
workers was rbserved t:_t fiorni Slavkov in July 19531
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