MILITARY UNDERGROUND FUEL STORE IN HNEVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A032700360001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 18, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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SUBJECT Military Underground Fuel Store DATE DISTR. 18 March
in Hnevice
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
An underground fuel store is located in the forest west of Hnevice 25X1
(N50..27, .E14.-?2). The store was originally built by the Germans
during the Second World War. In 1950 a military labor unit and-'about
400 civilian workers started work on reconstruction and enlargement of
the store. The area that .is; surrounded by a fence is about 2,300 meters
long in the north-south direction; the width is unknown A 25X1
three-line spur was constructed between the Hnevice railroad station and
the fuel store; the spur. tracks are filled with railroad tank cars.
In April 19.56 there were still about 200 civilian workers employed on the
construction; some of the workers may have been employed as storage personnel.
There were also about 100 soldiers ran duty in the area of the store; these
were quartered inside the area. The entrances are guarded by uniformed
plant guards (Zavodni straz). The weekly import of fuel into the store
was between 50 and 200 railroad tank.cars in 1955,
A sketch
showing the location of the fuel store is available
The legend for the sketch is as follows:
Point 1. Fence, 2.5 meters high, wire net.
Point 2. Entrances into the fuel store area.
Point 3. Railroad spur; continues in the forest.
Point 4. Surface buildings) probably quarters; can be only partly
observed from the outside.
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