SMALL ARMS FACTORY AND FIRING RANGE NEAR WARSAW

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000200210002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY. Poland
SUBJECT.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRE)
DATE OF I
Firing Range.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
this Wse a military operated installation but.all per- 25X1
USAF review completed.
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SEGUR;F't1' IN,FORM:ATION
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Pinpoint Location of ma rms ?
1. Small Arms Factory.
ldentificatian Data:
Reference to.Encl. 1,
pistols, hand. grenades and small arms ammunition.
6. onnel wore.c vilian clothing. The director of this installation was
KNYZIAK.(fnn).. The factory end products were.carbines, PPsh type.
machine guns, CKM '- heavy ? machine guns, RKM light machine guns,
Smal 1 Arms Paotory a.nd Firing, Range
,Near', Warsaw
Site Layouts
Reference to Encl.
2,
Sketch.of Small Arms :,Factory and Firing .
Range Near Warsaw.
otherwise stated.
Al ensiOns and figures,, are,'approxinate unless
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1. Street: cobblestone, seven meters wide, good condition, name
of street was Pulawaka, leading north eight kilometers to
Warsaw and south one kilometer to Sluzew from installation.
Street was 350 m. west of small arms t4ctory.
2. Trolley Tracks: double track next to road (Pt. 1).
3. Warsaw South RR Station: two-story, b.ri-k building, about
Din Roads four meters wide, road surrounded entire factory
area. Road was of asphalt construction, seven meters wide on
south end of installation and led to street (Pt. 1).
550 me north or small arms factory.
RR Tracks: double track, standard gauge, leading south from
railroad station (Pt. 3), to Sluzew about two kilometers.
Tracks were 200 ken, Tracks were 200 m. west from small arms
factory.,
Street: cobblestone, five meters wide, leading east 15 km. to
W anow Id 52-10, E 21-O6 from street (Pt. 1), street was
150 me north of small arms factory.
7. Pence: wood, 21 me high, with four strands of barbed wire on
op, surrounding entire installation, 80 m, from east to west
and 50 me from north to south,
ntranoes iron picket gate, four meters wide, 21 me high, one
armed m litary guard was noted at gate,
ar houses wood, 15 me long, eight meters wide, four meters
high, with tar a per covered shed type roof,. At time of obser-
v tion this warehouse was completely stocked
A ates were also noted around
with
they were set out to be deliver A
Number of crates unknown. However,
these orates contained oarbines, PPeh ype
machine guns, CKM - heavy machine guns, RKM - light machine
guns, pistols, hand grenades and small arms ammunition, which
on numerous occasions delivered excepting of hand `25X1
renades, to firing range to 13). Warehouse was five meters
from fence (Pt. 7).
10, j?&g: same construction and dimensions (Pt. 9), exce
d extended 2 m below ground level. 25X1
observed through an open door
w e wa n b meltin of i iron and molding of gun
barrels.
11.. Assembling, Packing and Crating Warehouse: same construction
and 15 m. from foundrv, (Pt, 10).
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cleaning, assembling, packing and crating of weapons through
an open door while walking by. 25X1
12. Unknown Buildin : three-story brick, 50 m, long, 10 m. wide
with shed type roof.
13. Firm Ran es
surrounded by a barbed wire fence 1 m,
g an that t ere were three firing positions with distances
of 50 m., 100 m,, and 200 m. There wasa small ahantry in
area, Firing range was 100 m. from street (Pt. 1).
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14 . R jkdl i n At a.ti on i
military guards patroling area an -y ra
masts. Entire area was surrounded by a barbed wire fence.
Radib station was sthout one kilometer ro small arms factory
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III. Additional Information:
there wert no wind cry, nor. were
there any ohimneye about six " 25X1
ar "od military' guards patroling factory area a a imesj during
the day'the guards patroled.inside of d at'night
on.the'outside of the installation. the south 25X1
aide of the installation had buildings or epen en. sing,
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Enclosures:
it Pinpoint Location of Small Arms Factory and Firing Range
Sketch of Small Arms Factory and Firing Range Near Warsaw 25X1
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ENCLOSURE 1:
Warsaw, Pinpoint Location of Small
rms a - o. Firing
nange
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ENCLOSURE-2:
Sketci of Small Arms Factory and Firing Range Near Warsaw
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