URANIUM PIT NO. 17 IN HORNI SLAVKOV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01540R005400040009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 20, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT ,
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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Uranium Pit No, 17 in Horni Slavkov
DATE DISTR. 20 ]Kay 195i
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE' APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
1, In Pit No. 17 at Horni Slavkov, there are altogether l20'employees working i'i
three shifts. Several of these are women, who work in the open.
the employees are permanent, others are brigade workers One third of
, engaged for one to two
years. There are also 60 convicts who are-engaged in the building of a new
cleaning and sifting shop, and who are
d
guar
ed by SNE men.
2. Machinery,eoneinto only of pneumatic hammers and transport equipment,
3. Skoda trucks transfer the ore to Horni Zdar? On the war back they bring
materials for the pit.
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4.
--the daily output oa ran um. . The quality of the ore is good. Source is amounts
quintala2
noto some t sure how far the
plan is being fulfilled but the place was known as the "Shock-working Pit".
Assistant workers get a 5roaim ly 800 Kos. net per month W
workers are not k
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decent living,
6. The pit comes under the Horni Slavkov Mines Inspectorate. Daily a
group
.two or three Russian inspectors come'to the pi,t from Horni Slavkov. The pit
is guarded only by one member of the works militia,
eight SN$ men who also patrol the.f ence of the building Convics site. a(O lyathed by
e
cleaning and sifting shops are surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, 160 t cm,
high).
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7. Morale is poor. People are trying to strike to get higher wages. In the end
two payments. on account were made to them and the situation has quieted down.
Some workers even injure their hands so as to be considered unfit for work. The
majority of miners and workers eat at the Horni Slavkov canteen; meals are quite
decent. Employees live mostly in several huts belonging to the Inspectorate.
Every day there are political education lectures, organized for CSM (Union of
Czechoslov
k.Y
a
outh) and ROH (Revolutionary Trade. Union Movement) members.
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Comment: One metric quintal equals 100 kg,
Enclosure; 1 map section ? (OSI
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Uranium Pit No. 17,
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Slavkov
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1.. Store of tools and canteen.
4.
Site of the cleaning and sifting shops,; under construction.
Al Mom.
Canteen.
6. Store of ore.,
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