URANIUM MINE IN WOJCIESZKOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006700280006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
S-E-Cr-R, E T
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
uranium Mine in Fo jciesakow
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1. A uranium mina is located in the vicinity of Wo jcieszkaw
S 22-19), Work is continuous 9 day and night.
2. The mining areas are enclosed by barbed wire fences with entrances
which follow a zigzag line to allow passage. A light tank is used
for mobile surveillance along the approaches to the mine. Daring
the night the area is completely darkened.
3, About SO percent of the workers are political prisoners; Soviet
and Polish specialists make up the remaining 20 percent. Tha
number of workers is not specified.
4. The political. prisoners who work in the mine are quartered ia. a
concentration camp located near the enclose of the mine fts.
These prisoners have been sentenced to more than 15 years of bard
labor.
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6. Discipline is very rigid. The food is goad and there is "abundant
distribution" of alcoholic beverages and cigarettes.
S-E-C-R E-T
NOFC.N
Description of the uniform worn by the prisoners follows: a gre3r
cloth suit with a red band, five to six centimeters wide, on the
outside edge of the trousers; a visored cap with a circular red band
over the entire lower part of the cap.
ARMY
REPORT
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I N FORMATION REPORT INFORMA-f ION REPORT
20 June 1955
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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