AERONAUTICAL PLANT AT BIALA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005500120010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 17, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage laws, Title 18. U.S.C. Secs. 783
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Aeronautical Plant at Biala
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17 January 1955
1. The National Plant No. 14 in Biala was built in 1945 and at that time only
constructed spare parts for automobiles. Since 1952 it has been producing
airplane engines. The aeronautical plant is a branch of the former 25X1
Cegielski Works in Chrzanow.
2. The plant is under Soviet supervision. The manager is engineer Aleksandrov,
a Russian who is a Communist and a member of the MGB.
3. The plant employs 1,200 workers, of whom 120 are technicians, engineers,
white-collar workers,'and guards.
4. The plant produces 50 hp. boxer engines; 90 hp. Shvertsov engines (radial
5.
the USSR.
engines), and 225 hp. radial engines. The monthly production is 50
engines. The entire production is turned over to the Soviet aeronautical
plants in Gri.bovskiy,Nikitin, and.Goloyev, where trainer planes are con-
structed for the Soviet Armed Forces and for paramilitary organizations.
The raw materials are supplied by Polish factories. The machinery came from
6. The following is a list of the plant equipment:
9 lathes with a length of 2,500 mm.
12 lathes with a length of 1,500 mm.
11 mechanical lathes
6 turret lathes
9 shaping machines
3 planing machines with a width from 2 to 100 mm.
2 "impact machines" (very likely drop hammers)
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2 boring machines of the "space type" (possibly multiple boring machines)
15 boring machines
12 "Exzenter" presses (eccentric presses)
2 hydraulic presses
8 shot-peening machines
1 steam hammer
1 forge press (steam)
11 sawing machines
2 band saws
1 perforating machine with 8 spindles
4 round grinding machines
2 flat grinding machines
3 screw-cutting machines
2 large straightening machines
5 small -r --
3 folding presses
4 tin cutting machines
1 structural shape-cutting machine
1 large metal-cutting machine (with a diameter of 2 meters)
120 fully-equipped smith benches
1 complete forge
Measuring instruments; calipers, Johnson plates
Construction office complete with 12 designing machines
Office Equipment
Teletype
Copying machines
Reproduction machine
Mimeographing machine
Telephones
Radio for the plant (information and political news)
Canteen; mess hall
Movie house
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