1. AIRCRAFT ENGINE FACTORY AT PAIE POLE. 2. LOCATION OF AIRCRAFT ENGINE FACTORIES AT OKECIE, RZESZOW, MIELEC AND LUBLIN

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• Publication Date: October 1, 1953
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SUBJECT 1. Aircraft Engine Factory at
Paie Pole.
2. Location of Aircraft Engine
Factories at Okeoie, Rzeazow,
DATE OF INFO. Miele; and Lublin
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25X1 1. In the summer of 1952 there were in Poland five factories making aircraft
engines., All carried serial numbers. The factorise were situated as
follows:
a. At Okecie, near Warsaw.
b. At Reeozow, east of Krakow;
At Psis Pole (Hundeafeld) near Wroclaw. After the war this factory
was called Pastowe,Zaklady Lotnioze, later renamed Fabryka Silnikow
Letniczyoh, and in 1951 its name was again changed to Wytwornia
Sprzetu Eomunikaoyjnego and it was given the number 3. The name
camouflaged the real purpose of the factory.,
d. At Mieleo not far from Rzeazow.l
e. At Lublin.
2. The factory at Pais Pole is situated about 1.2 km east of the Pais Pole
railway station. This is an ex-German aircraft factory, which after the
war was fairly thoroughly plundered and dismantled by the Russians, who
left only a few hand maohines,,2 The factory was later used ae spme sort
of metal-workers' shop. Reconstruction began in 1948 and lasted for some
time; aircraft produotion'began"towarda' the eMMd bf ' 1951.
3. The l,otory lies between the road and railway line Wroclaw-Oleenioa (to the
north) and the road from Hundeafeld to Grose Weigeladorf. To the south of'
the road, and not far distsnt, flows the small river Widows. The factory
buildings occupy an area of about I,.3.00m from east to west and about 600 m.
from south to north.
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4. The whole area is fenced in with wire mesh 2.5 meters high, with another
half meter of barbed wire on top. All round this fence wooden towers about
four meters high and 100 - 150 meters apart hate been built, on which two
KBW (Security Corps) men keep watch day and night. The boundaries are also
patrolled at night by KBW men with police dogs. The KBW division which
guards the factory consists of 180 - 200 men.
5. The factory employs some 3,000 persons of whom over 250 are officials, and
of these officials more than half are women. Apart from these, roughly 15%
of the factory workers are women. Many employees live in the workers'houses
outside the factory grounds.
6. Production is on the continuous belt system, on two belts. During the period
of this report the factory did not suffer from any shortage of materials of
tools. The final stages of production and control were in the hands of
Polish technicians who wore Polish air force uniforms, and these in turn
came ender the permanent control of about 70 Soviet technicians wearing
the uniform of Soviet staff officers or, in some oases, of the P.A.F.
The general director of the factory was a Jew from Lwow named Nalepa, (feu).
7. The factory produced Soviet model YAK engines for fighter aircraft. These
were seven-oylindered radial engines, but further details are not known.
All engine parts were produced here. In January 1952 new Soviet plans were
introduced ,ad well as Soviet work norms and methods. The plans were
explained to foremen and technicians by Polish draughtsmen and constructors.
After this,produotion rose considerably, reaching a daily total of 30
engines which were loaded every night on to railway oars and dispatched
the same night to an unknown destination. Apart from this, the factory
did not work at night.
8. The engines were packed in large wooden oases and loaded at the and of the
branch railway leading to the factory from Psie Pole station. (See sketch).
The factory had its own shunting engine, which always took the railroad
oars to and from the factory boundary, from where the ordinary railway
locomotive took them to and from Psie Pole station. During the change-
over of locomotives, two KBW men guarded the factory entrance to see that
no railway men entered the grounds.
9. In January 1952 machinery for making ammunition was installed in the west-
ern win* of the',faptory. This machinery came from Russia in piaoeaand
was assembled in the factory] 40 mm shells are known to have been made.
Measuring equipment (sic) was prepared before the erection of the machinery.
Up.till April 1952 production had not started, but the shell prototypes,were
ready. Parts of the factory were still empty and unused at the time.
10. In September 1952 some of the Psie Pole employees were attending a two-
month course in the factory at Okeoie, nearly all of them working with
various precision tools so that on their return they could use similar
tools and machines which were then being installed in Psie Pole. These
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