EXPLOSIVES PLANT AT KRUPSKI MLYN

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CIA-RDP82-00047R000100500007-7
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
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December 27, 2016
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May 15, 2013
Sequence Number: 
7
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Publication Date: 
August 13, 1952
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REPORT
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an/ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr2013/05/15 : CIA-RDP62-00047R000100500007-7 ------- (J LA55kA I I L.) IN SECRET/SE-CUR= ilIFUENAW4W4 A4 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT COUNTRY Poland SUBJECT Explosives Plant at Krup ski Mlyn PLACE ACQUIRED DATE ACQUIRED DATE OF rNFORMATION THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE IT, SECTIONS 793 .17 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REV, CATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT ST AN UNADTHORIEED PERSON 19 PROHIBITED ST LAW. THE REPRODUCTION CF THIS FORM IS PROHISITED. 50X1 DATE DISTR./3 /4 v.-G.-1952 NO. OF PAGES 2 NO. OF ENCLS. (LISTED BELOW) SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. 50X1 50X1 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION 50X1 1. Chemical Industry Plant No 3 (Saklady Przemysly Chenicznego Erg 3), an ep,losive plant, was located at Krupski Mlyn L.5034-1838E/, Poland. This plant was built in 1935 and was assigned to the United Chemical Industry Plants, Inc (Zjednoczone Saklady Przemysly). The director since 1949 was engineer (Thu) Kosciukiewicz, a man of about 55 years of age, and known as an expert on explosives. 2. The plant had the following divisions: (a) nitrogen division "N" (b) dynamite division "D" (c) ammonium nitrate explosives division "A." (d) detonators division (e) analytical laboratory 3. Raw materials used in this plant were : glycerin, sulphuric acid, nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, TNT, sodium carbonate and sodium chloride. 3.. Products and their disposition were: (a) Nitroglycerin - produced specifically for the plant's use in the further production of dynamite and ammonium nitrate explosives. The process used Vas the continuous method ie, nitrating of glycerin in the presense of sulphuric acid (production figures unknown). CLASSIFICATION SECRET/SECURITY INFORMATION .S7-irre- X 4117g vi_y -finoix DISTRIBUTION ORR EV CiIr flare! Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr2013/05/15 : CIA-RDP82-00047R000100500007-7 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr2013/05/15 : CIA-RDP82-00047R000100500007-7 SECRET/SECURITY mcpuunaii (b) Dynamite, anmionium nitrate explosives, - for use in-P0111h: mines. The method of production wais a, simple meithanialittnitang _ - , of all compound*. The combined output of these two explosive*. . .. , . was approximately 2,500 to 3,000 tons per year. (a) Detonators - for use in Polish coal mines. PrOduotiOn torthje product began in November 1949 (production figures unknown)* , All equipment in this explosives plant was olds with the exeitiPtien. Of that in the Detonator Division. The Detonator Division Was .?;*,0,1t , . , in 1949. , This pipit has a finial research laboratory mainly used for eh011io61 analysiS SECRET. /SECURIT! INFORMATION 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr2013/05/15 : CIA-RDP82-00047R000100500007-7