(SANITIZED) THERMAL POWER PLANT AND COAL-GRADING PLANT AT KOMLO(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A036400040001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 5, 1957
• 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.
COUNTRY Hungary
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
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Thermal Power Plant and Coal-
Grading Plant at Komlo
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The report and sketch give the location
of the two plants and of various installations in the area. The report
does not include any information as to production or number of employees.
STATE X ARMY NAVY
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concerning the thermal power plant at Komlo.
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Economic
'IhERMAL POWER PLA1\T AND (;OAS GRADING PLA; iNT AT KVMLG
1. In a valley which branches out at i;2-fCS!4;K.PBL88Kr;,
just before reaching KO.NLO, a large and absolutely
up-to-date Cowl Grading (sorting) Plant has been built
along the LOIti'iBOVAR-iv CSEKJi-~~TOS-KOI2,0 railway line.
2. In order to provide a site for this plant the
valley, which &t chat point i. about 180 m. wide,
was filled up. The brook K,%SZ!J,NY Pi.T,LX was covered
up and now flows underground. Building operations
commenced in 1950 or 1951 and were completed in 1955.
3. This Czal Grading Plant (fig-6 on the attached
sketch) is a four storey high building equipped with
rubber conveyor belts. The separation of the coal
from the rubble is done by air. An elevator is attached
to the building, leading up to the top of the hill
(fig. 64) . The sorting capacity of the plant is
4000, bons daily.
4? Round the building there are several (5 or '10)
narrow-gauge electric rail tracks (marked with small
x on sketch) two of which lead into the deep adit (fig.5).
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A small platform roofed with fer2o-concrete (fig.7/n
has been built next to the bath-house (fig-7) From
this platform the miners take the trucks which run
to the shafts. The bath-nc,use is a four storey high
building built on the side of the hill.
5. The management of the Trust is housed in a new
building (fig,4) on the _,oad leading from K01,10 to
the settlement at KdKbNYKS; the road continues via
?ANP~ to PEGS. The managements of tre mines KOSSUTH,
ANNA, ZOBAK and Nee.III are housed in two or three
3-storied houses (fig.8) along a road branching out
of the KOIVTLO-KbK3NYtiS road nea! the deep adit.
6. The maintenance and repair service of the
grading plant is carried out by the SZERELIiIPriRI
NEI'IZETI J't'J,LeLLAT (National Industrial assembling
Enterprise), which has a large workshop (fig.12) on
the above mentioned branch road. The repair and upkeep
of the pit tracks is also undertaken by this firm.
(These trucks were built in PECTSZENTL RING- and by
DUCLOS Bd\TY?GEPGYriR ('DUCLOS r Mine Machinery Factory)
in BIDr,PFST. Fig.12/:-, is a workshop belonging to the
plant.
7. On the hill top behind the baths are two hostels,
for the men (fig.70) and v omen (fig.ll) working on the
site. Fig.9 is a wired off site with barracks, where
convs.ct,d were; previously housed while working on the
surface building operations. Iii April 1955 these barracks
were not in use.
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8. East of the K0I1LO-KbKbNY63 road is the new
Town Hall (fig.l) and a new hotel (fig.2). Both
buildings were completed in 1955. r ig.18 ma*1--ks
the town KOivILO.
9. The DOI4iBOVt.R-1v1ECSEKJ J\TOS--KOIr;LO railway line
(fig. 3) , which is double tracked from Iv1ECSFKJ:0OS
to KOIvILO, ends at KCIvILO 3tc.tion (fig.14) in several
sidings. This station is at the foot of H.~SIvI