THERMAL POWER PLANT AND TRANSFORMER STATION IN PREROV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400360001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 11, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing 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 Czechoslovakia REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT Thermal Power Plant and Transformer DATE DISTR.
11 April 1955
Station in Prerov
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DATE OF INFO.
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT
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Thermal Power Plant and Transformer
Station in Prerov
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
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DATE DISTR. 1.3 az 1955
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REFERENCES:
1. Identification Data
50X1 Reference is made to page 4, an overlay of GSGS 4416, scale
1:100,000, sheet U-120 Hranice
1. Prerov (N 49-27, E 17-27).
2. Becva River, 25 - 30 m. wide, 40 cm. deep, earth embankments.
3. Transformer station located about three kilometers west of
Prerov and north of the Becva River (point 2). (Additional
information under paragraph 4.) 'r
4. Double-track line, led from Prague to Olomouc, standard
European gauge. No further information.
5. Strhanec Brook, three to four meters wide, flowed south to
the Becva River (point 2).
6. Thermal Power Plant, located in the West part of town. (See
site layout, page 5.)
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2. Site Layout
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Reference
in Prerov
is made to page 5,
sketch of Thermal Power Plant
1. Becva River (same as point 2, page 4).
2. Bridge over the Beeva River, built in 1947, reinforced concrete
construction, 65 m. long, 10 m. wide, including two one-meter.
wide pedestrian walks, 1.20 m. high concrete railing, four
stone piers.
3. Suction sieve, laid on the bottom of the Becva River in 1953,
4 x 4m. square. Unit served as water intake for the power
plant.
4. Water outlet from the power plant into the Beova River,
5. Street called Nabrezi Doktora Eduarda Benese, eight meters
wide, cobblestone, trees on sides.
6. Administration building, brick, four-story, built in 1937.
The fourth floor was added in 1947. The building measured
35 x 15 x 18 m. and had a straight roof.
7. Glass-Tenclosed corridor which connected second floors of the
administration buildings (points 6 and 8). The corridor was
10 m. long, two meters high, with concrete flooring.
8. Administration building, brick, four-story, red-tile gable
roof; 30 x 15 x 20 in., painted dark green.
9. Repair shop, brick, tin roof, 40 x 10 x 6 in. This building
was divided into various sections. Trucks belonging to the
power plant were repaired there.
10. Fence, mesh wire on the south side, brick wall on the north,
west, and east sides, 2.5 in. high.
11. Boiler house, brick, 60 x 40 x 15 in. Type of roof unknown.
50X1 two large boilers, cylindrical, seven
meters in diameter, about 20 in. long. No further information.
12. Traveling
unloading
13. Coal pile.
crane, five meters above ground. Crane was used for
coal and coal ashes.
Open storage.
14. Two piles of coal ashes.
25. Rail spur used mainly for shipping coal into the power plant
and transferring coal ashes away from the plant.
16. Street, name unknown, eight meters wide, one-meter-wide pedestrian
walks. Street led from Prerov to Dluhonice (approximately
N 49-25, E 17-27).
17. Fence, two meters high, mesh wire.
50:00 18. Storage yard. varioUs types of masts and poles
piled in this area.
19. Building, brick, 30 x 10 x 8 in., single story, purpose unknown.
Building was constructed in 1952.
20. Two chimneys, 80 in. high, eight meters in diameter at the base.
The chimneys were about 10 in. apart. On top of each chimney
was a red obstruction light.
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21. Rail spur. No further information.
22. Workshop, L-shaped, 60 in. ithg-theouter_perimpter,
10 m. wide, seven meters high, brick. Power lines and power
measuring instruments were repaired here.
3. Add itiona3.fcrmation
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supp ie e ecrcyo een re rerov area. igh-tension lines
were laid underground in 1952 along the Becva River. Production of
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plant worked in three shifts and about 200 people were employed there.
Entrance to the power plant was from the south side into building
(point 6, page 5). The entrance was guarded 24 hours by two guards
in 'black uniforms, armed with pistols. Storage yard (point 18, page
5) was also guarded 24 hours by one guard. No further information.
4 Transformer Station, Prerov
50X1 Reference is made to page 6. memory sketch of transformer station
site located west of Prerovl
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1.
2.
3.
Becva River (same as point 2, page 4).
Brook (same as point 5, page 4).
Building, brick, four-sto 25 x 15 x 15 m., tile able roof.
Purpose of this building unknown but
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it could ave been an administration building.
4. Building, similar construction to building (point 3). Purpose
of building unknown.
Enclosed area, 60 x 4o m. High iron poles and masts with large
insulators were located in area. Iron poles were emplaced in
concrete foundations. Area was fenced in by a two-meter-high
mesh wire fence topped with barbed wire. Various kinds of
bushes and saplings were growing on the areas just outside
the fence.
6. Double-track rail line (same as point 4, page 4).
7. Road, surfaced with ashes, two meters wide, trees on sides.
Road led along the Heave River. Fields made up area north
of road.
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Overlay of of GSGS 4416, Scale 1:100,000,
Sheet U-12, Hranice, pinpointing Thermal
Power Plant and transformer station.
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