MALAPANEW WORKS AND ANDRZEJ WORKS IN OZIMEK

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 11, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECRET/U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Poland
.YK..R.
SUBJECT 1.. Malapanew Works and Andrzej Works in
Ozimek
2. J. Stalin Works at Labedy
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN TINS RNOF AN DEFINITIVE.
THE AFMAKAL OF CON1 4T Is TRNTAT1VE.
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!M :r...panew 1'forks at Ozimek (N50-41, E18-13)
1. Since about May 1954 the following developments have taken place at the
Malapanew Works:
a. Two new Martin furnaces have boon ins t::1J.oc' s.,hich -Log;;the oi.~n ):rv.:.,
some 150,000 tons of steel per year.
b. The rolling mill which when in German hands producec' seamless pipes,
and which after the war was completely dismantled by the Russians and
taken to the USSR, is now being rebuilt. It should have been completyed
before the and of 1953, but due to delayed deliveries and non-arriva,JIl
of machinery from the USSR and the.West, it is behind schedule. EquJp-
ment is at present being brought partly from the Polish factories in
Czestochowa and Labedy in Silesia and partly from East Germany. These
mills are now expected to be completed at least before the and of the
present Six Year Plan, i.e. probably some time in 1955.
2. Future production will include gun barrels. The sections that are already
in operation are making tanks; the tracks come from other factories, chiefly
from a factory in Warsaw. It is not known where the completed tanks are ',sent.
3. Since the end of 1953 there have been at least seven to nine Russian advisors
and technicians at the factory.
4. The iron ore used by the plant comes by rail, and is of Soviet origin. In
addition to the Martin furna.oea, there are other large installations wh1.4'
process the steel from the furnaces; details are unknown.
5. The factory works in three shifts, employs about 4.,000 workers,and is
constantly seeking additional manpower.
6.' The power station, already rebuilt, works at full pressure and supplies all
the necessary current for the factory ".the neighborhood.
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Andrza` Works at Ozimek 1
7. The Andrzej Works were not rebuilt as an independant unit but as a factory
forming part of the Malapanew Works, Tanks are assembled here, and steep.
is brought from the Bobrek Foundry in Opole (Oppeln). Parts of the Andrzej
Works are still under construction.
Iron Works at Labedy (Laband) near Gliwice (Gleiwitz) 2
8. After the war the well known Goering Works were thoroughly plundered by,the
Russian-', especially the huge mechanical works of the foundry. After
various attempts, rebuilding began in earnest in 1919, and by the end of
1952 .or beginning of 1953 the following sections and installations were
partly in use or expected shortly to be completed=
a. Martin furnaces, each capable of taking 70 tons of iron ore at a time.
b. One new rolling mill.
c. Workshops for the production of gear boxes,
d. Workshops for heavy steel construction,
e. Several shops for armor plate assembly,
9. The plant is now working under constant pressure. It produces:
a. Tanks, probably larger than T34s.
b. Guns for the above tanks, caliber unknown.
c. Other steel construction parts shipped in plate form.
1.0. A Polish-Soviet military group in the factory receives the completed tanks,
and every day, including Suniays, new tanks are tested in the neighborhood
and their guns tried out.
1i. The director general is Ludwig Blaska, and there are approximately 5,000
workers employed, among them many German experts some of whom were held
in Poland after the war, and some sent from East Germany, and last year
from Russia, in order to speed up tank production.
12, The entire area, containing many buildings, is surrounded by a fence wit
a number of watchtowers manned by the Industrial Guard during the day an4
by men of a KBW regiment from Katowice at night, with heavy machine guns
and searchlights.
13: These works, which for some years have been called the Jozef Stalin Work,
are among the most closely guarded plants of the Polish armaments industry.
There are many UB (Security Police) agents among the employees, who have
special factory passes issued by the K , and may not move from one part of
the works to another without written permission. 111 entrances are guarded
and passes checked. Numerous meetings are held for all employees to impress
upon them the need for the utmost secrecy, and breaches of security are
punishable by anything from 15 years imprisonment to the death penalty.
11.. The atmosphere among the workers is one of gloom, In May 1953, after St inns
death, the norms were raised to an extent which meant that work which pr -
viously paid about 1,200 zlotys now pays only 700 zlotys. News of the riots
in East Germany reached the workers but was suppressed by the politruksias
long as possible. As the stiffened attitude of the workers made itself felt
events were discussed at meetings and explained as having been instigated and
led by American agents, As a precaution, about 60 of the employees least
trusted by the UB were imprisoned and the MO (Citizens' Militia) and part 'iof
the local garrison was in a state of preparedness for at least two to three
weeks. Some of those arrested returned to the plant after a few weeks; others
were not heard of again.
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