NOVAKY CHEMICAL WORKS NATIONAL ENTERPRISE IN NOVAKY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006100590009-4
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 31, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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i CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information affecting the Notional Defense of the United States within the meaning of tilt' 8lonatSe Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unouthoAwd Ponan 18 Prohibited by law.
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SUBJECT Novaky Chemical Works, National
Enterprise, in Novak,'
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL
1. The'Novaky Chemic lfWorks, National Enterprise. lies 300 m. south of Novaky
(N 48-43, E 18-33) railroad station,. between the railway line and the road.
It is about 1,000 i~it long and 300 M. wide. There is a? wire mesh fence from
the northeast corner to 'he eat@Xeeperos lodge; south of the gatekeeper's
post and along the south-side, the fence is of planks; on the north and
west sides the fence is again of mesh, about 2-1/2 meters high. There are
three rows of barbed wire on top of the fence. In January 1953 the plant
began to expand to the Athor side of the road, from a point near the north
corner of the present site, to ends Novaky, in an area about 500 m. long
and 150 in. wide. The building is being carried out by the Bratislava Ing-
stav, National Enterprise. and the Presov Stavoindustria9.NAtional.'.Enterprise.
Abbut'.five large:'.-buildings and, a Tarr 'number.'.ot..,smaller buildings are being
put up.
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2. The factory is guarded by the works militia, about 20 of whom constantly
patrol the factory,?~ At the main entrance there are four guards; at the
points where the railroad tracks enter the factory., there are always two
guards.
3. This chemical plant is linked with the chemical works under military admin-
istration which makes poison gas., probably located somewhere in the area of
bench mark 341. The military chemical works ;.is-, built into the rock.- under-
ground, and a new road and railroad track lead to it.
4. The Novaky Chemical Works has about 1,300 employees, of whom about 20% are
women. PTP battalions (Auxiliary Technical Battalions) also work here as
auxiliaries, on a yoluntary basis, mostly on irregular jobs such as storing
and loading materialsd Occasionally soldiers and brigade workers also help
to unload coal and salt. A small number of the workers live in houses
belonging to the plant, which has also taken over one hotel in Novaky.
Most of the workers commute from the neighborhood. Most of the workers eat
in the works canteen, where the food is very good and relatively cheap.
Political instruction is given by the C8M, but only to the-young workers,
The older workers [void it.
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5. About 12 carkload's of salt arr4ve dtilq at the works. It iqs very pure
crystalline > salt? from; fhe USSR.; coal comes from Mr;ka Ostrava and
Hand~lova ~lect`ro tecohnkcal ap iaratu comes' part~l from East .Germany
and some from rTesla in -Prague. Th
e f re fd ht" prig equipment is from
UNRRA Kearbide is delivered rfrom Sokolov read Ohri ,(Falknov)
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(N 50-11, E 12X38) Acids come ,pa
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rtly from wEast Germany., and partly
from Kolin,.
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The Five-year Plan is fulfilled about, q0,0$4 Production consists of 1
liquid chlorine rand other chemiwcaal1s,
Part of the output goes. to Polaldi,jp rt to Semtin, Usti nad Labem,, Moravska
Ostrava, Ko?l~i+n and the USSR'..The uantit? or the kind of goods
delivered to, leac_h is not known
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Novaky Chemical Works, National Btiterpr see
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Scale 1;5.000
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Legend to Skeitc?h~of: the Novaky Qhemi ak,Y exK.g,
1. Management fces, 3* story br=ick..;b`ui~ldang,. In the basement are the
pay office and P the safe Grounds. floorx personnel offi,cet. 2nd floor;
management offices the admini~stratiye part in the south wing and the
tec?hniacaal, a'dmiristration in the, rth wngx. 3rd floor. in the north
wing, the accounts departments for,.? purchases of materiFals, the technical
management ((,i ei' chief engineer's: office).. In the south Wing is the
teehnl manger. Access to t7he ,bui &ding is from tex :east by an
entrance in t~h e: middle of thebui _ng~:. The stairs run round the eleva-
tor shaft.
2. Brick buiidiLnng;f height: 4 meterSW..
a. Guard and gatekeeper's lodgek.
b. First-aid' post
c. Garage..
I. Garage for 2 large trucks. Briclkr, height 4 meters, roll-back doors.
4. Boiler house, 2=story brick build"i~ng The. whole of the ground floor and
the east parPtr of the 2nd floor is ccupied by the boiler hourse. The rest
of the d Boor contains off ices) to dk c7h6-,,,cal testing, labra~toike,s.
5. Old locoiotiwe.q;'which supplements the boiler house in supplying steam,.
6. Open-air coal dump,.
7. A wooden shed open on all sides, wfi th a coal furnace for melting down
mercury from waste:
8. In the north, part of the buildi=ng ar) dloakroems lavatories Pramen
and southwest ,Wcorners of the building. arse he maintenancek offices,. In
this builclingut;e :electricians,, smiths,. machine workers., ptilate workers,
and a small ca 1-1 ting shop. Sand pit; ?for maintenance. Cleaning of castings
with .sand:
stores. The south part of the` bui] i;ng, which was farve4y a canteen
and kitchen, .is being `rebuilt.; Brck height 4 meters.
Mechanical maintenance. shop. Brit,ck, height 8 meters. In4the northeast
Temporary ator$ea ;for technical mwVeri.ls (;gllass?, test tubes, automatic
scales). Bricksr height 5 me~ters~: The satore offices are i,n the southeast
corner of. they b_,izi ldiyng,:
11 Fenced yard,, i~S~th sheds :along t?hgt f< nrce. Stores of glass wool, rubber
tubing,- plate glrass., lead strlip$ ;and plaster;.
12. Cloakroom, 0071ices, and tool shop for, the "alert sections" (,about 15 people
whose task ims, Ito carry out odd .fobs, such as storing, etc These. people
always work inn the yard .outsi,de, tahe ~ac~tory) . Bri