ZBROJOVKA, NATIONALIZED ARMS INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003000740001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 26, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The Nationalized Arms Industry in Czechoslovakia (Zbrojov!ea, narodni ~aodnik)
consists of raan y factories, sore of '?2hcich have been nationalized for sorts
considerable time and sons of which were nationalized between 194.5 and 1948,
Bef om the war the arras concern was the "Td schechoslovakische '-Taffenwerke A.G."
(Ceskoelovenska Zbro jovka, ack. spol. ), in irhich the State held a 50 percent
Interest. The only pre lent factory which belonged to this old concern Is the
one in Brno-Zabrdovice. In 1944 the Gexrans built the "Ostr rkische Flugmotor
%,. rrc" in Linen, near Brno, to the north-west of the Olomouc road, and after
the war this factory was incorporated into the present concern. Other fac-
tories here also Incorporated after the war, including arms and e nunitior
factories built b-- the Gerrians. The Central Office of the whole concern is
In Br;:ao.Zabydlovicce, u. Lazaretu 7, and is on the banks of the River "vit;ava
ori. );:7ite the Drno-Zidenice railway station. The rialn door Is on the street
"u. Lazaratu", exactly oprc}site the to! *r of the Zabrdovice church and the
military hospital. There -is a railw>cay line from the 'wilding to Zidenice
? s ration, thus it is also easily recognizable from the air. A third offshoot
of the nationalized concern In Brno is in the Cej1. Gases.
a.. General Director: Ing. Jaroriir T?ach, Kralovo Pole, 'Iocirova 36. Tel,,
51.234 271 (a Czech).
b. Chairman of the Trade Union and 'Yorks Council: Ludvik B losarek, 3rno-
Ziden1ee, Skrochnova 32.
c , Lo +al Adviser: 31 Dr. Arnost Vrabec, arno-Zabovres1ty, Kroftova 13.