MACHINE REPAIR PLANT NO. 3, LIBEREC/CONDITIONS IN THE LIBEREC DISTRICT AND IN RADCICE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500180018-0
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 31, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Me2hine Repair Plant Nc 3, Liberec/Conditions in the
Liberec distxlet and in Radcice
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Machine Repair Plant Liberec
2. "The machine repair plant (U ravna tstro t1 nnrodn4 odnik rlvod eP _) Batt Uberec
is on-- of three plants managed by a directo rpt a in Usti rad La em. 7vod c 1
ib at Uoti nad Labem. Zdtiod l~~2 is atGv1LrT u Prahy.
3? "There are about 180 employees in 7./vod t" at Liberec. The manager is (tau)
Mikoss,whofhaii noptechnical qualificatons. Hits deputy is (tnu) Grabner. The
Vaclav Klntovsky. j nurax he so==under of the militia is
4. "The plant concentrates on the repair of transport and loading machinery for
mines, quarries and building sites. There has been a constant lack of apeaial
steel, i-on p.1ti?:et for conveyors, rubber and lectric motors. These shortages
have meant failure in uch:.eving production targets. Z-Presumably in April
1953 7 the turn_r,,; l?,t,he work:;ho,, (frezarna) was fulfilling the plan by
55-x; the railway er.,,ine workshop-Tlckomotivka) by 35% and the locksmith shop
(zamecnicko. di-Ina) by 90;,
5. "There are nu shockworkcr: in the plant, and the working morale is low. This
is mainly because over 1C' of the workers are tr-.nspls.nted administrative and
white-collar workers, private craftsmen (zivnosthicij and ex-army They are frequently a-?eu:;ed by setting a bad exaripeand harming worker morale.
6. 'In .:prinq 11;53 /-prior to 30 May 53 currency reform 7 unskilled workers at the
plant e,Lrred about L,000 kr, net weekly. Skilled worker:: earned 1,200 - 1,300
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weekly. The plant published a weekly paper, the 'Stalinec', but subscription
is not compulsory.
Conditions in the Liberec District
"The Prager factory at Straz nad Nisou was converted into a military factory in
1952. It is now called Normal. Its production includes radar equipment.
8. "Uranium ore deposits have been reported near Kriznn, pod Jestedem, in the
direction of Jeblonny pod Jestedem. Test drillings weza being made in spring
1953.
9. "At the beginning of 1953 butter and sugar disappeared from shops in the Liberec
district. Only jam was available in. sufficient quantity, at 65 ke per kg.
There has been a shortage of such simple medicines as aspirin and 'ointments'.
Special prescriptions are needed.
10. "In spring 1953 a contagious disease referred to as 'black jaundice' (cerna
ziouterka) was spreading among persons ii: the Liberec district. Rumors
circulated that it hod been caused by rotten canned meat and stale margarine
mixed with fresh.
11. "In January 1953 some 35 butchers in the Liberec district were arrested on
charges of forfeiting ration cards, slaughtering cattle and pigs illegally
and purchasing decayed carcass meat for use in sausages.
Conditions in Radcice
12. "In spring 1.953 the chairman of the local National Council at Radcice in the
Liberec district was (fnu) Caganek. The secretary was (fnu) Drevinek. The
security referent was (fnu) Prenosil. The head of the food and supply
department was Mme Marie Slabs. The leader of the Youth League organization
was Anezka Drevinkcva. The chairman of the village CP organization was (fnu)
Drevinek, son of the secretary of the local National Council. The deputy
chairman of the Local National Cc-Incil, Mme (fnu) Holoubkova, also issued food
ration coupons.
13. "There is no SNB station in Radcice. The nearest is at Straz, under the command
of (fnu) Smejkal, a former member of the Czech Socialist Party who has become a
staunch ,ommunist.
14. "A unit of SVAZARM, the Czech paramilitary organization, was organized in Radcice
in summer 1952. As from January 1953 all men, except invalids, have been ordered
to partici.p=..t..:. Their trainir.;: consists mainly of trench digging, infantry drill,
f,nr,- err err .r1 mine-ia,v i.: O:_? rn :rrnr.h they do an all-day hitch.
th,e
'e~ Vnci v w!r .rra^ized the cooperative. The
:'urners. It is the second best
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rot in the fields. In 1952 all
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