ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON KAMNIK GUNPOWDER FACTORY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200530001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Additional Information on
Komnik Gunpowder Faotory
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DATE OF IN
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DATE DISTR. 11 January i94?:
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The following numbers identify buildin a of the Kamnik Gunpowder Vactory and
the entire report is supplementary t The numbers, as received
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1. Reception building, one-story high; 15 x 20 m with tile roof; contains
office of guard commander to whom everyone ertering the plant area must
report. In addition to this office there' are two apartments for employees.
2. Offices of the Technical Section Heal and the chief engineer of the
Technical Section. The building is one story high, of stone constructions
30 x 10 m with tile roof. It also contains the mechanical workshop, the
saddlery, and the chief engineer's blueprint room; in the latter six
men are employed.
3. Joiner's shop, one-story high, of stone construction, 30x10 ms with tile
roof; with forty employees.
4. Storage department for saltpeter, salt, and other rateriala; one story
high, of-stone construction, 40 x 10 m, with tile roof; has about ton
employees.
5. Storage for sulphur; a new building one-story high, 30 x 10 in, with tile
roof in charge o f' a Benkovie who lives in Ljubljana.
6, Power plant, one-story high, of concrete construction, 15 x 19 m, with roof
of concrete and covered with sand. The turbines are laid in sp; ral form
and are of the "Francis" type. Water is directed in through a covered
underground channel leading from the dam (87 on map). The p,awer plant
employs 12 electricians.
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10. Storage for raw materials, including nails, screws, padlocks, ele"tro-
material, etc., one-story high. 15 x 12 in, with tile roof,
.1l~1,11~2, Saw mill and sharpening room with storage space for pegs, with 15 employees.
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13. Cheriieal laboratory, one-story, stone construction with the roof,,
with three employees. Chief of the laboratory is one Platkovski, a
Russian emi?re, 60 years of ago. He is supervised by the Chief of the
Gunpowder Section.
15. Charcoal-burning department, one-story, stone constructions, 20 x 15 m,
with two high chimneys. This building also contains stoves for
processing of charcoal. Four men are employed here.
22. Charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter grinding and mixing section. The percentage
of the mixture (ratio of combinations) for black powder is determined
here. The building is one-story high 15 x 20 m, of concrete construction
with tile roof. Six men are employed in this section.
24. Administration building, one-story high, of stone construction, 50 x 30 m,
with tile roof; has a clock tower. Contains the offices and living quarters
of the director, the Technical and Gunpowder Section Chiefs, and the
bookkeeper; and the office of the paymaster.
24/1. Old stables; one-story high; 40 x 12 m. According to dormant this
building has been converted into a warehouse since his departure.
32. Boiler house contains one boiler; a stone building, with a tin roof and
a large square'ohimney, Six people are employed here.
32/1. Sorting Department for production of "Kamniktit" gunpowder; one-story
stone construction, 40 x 16 m. Twelve people are employed here.
32/2. Building for filling sacks with "Kamniktit" gunpowder. The filling
is done by machines. The building is 12 x 15 m, with a tin roof.
Thirty people, chiefly women, are employed here.
32/3. Peraffining and packing department for "Kamniktit" gunpowder; one-story
high of stone construction, 20 x 20 in, with tine roof. Fifty people,
mostly women, are employed here.
34/1,34/2. Two mills for grinding and mixing of "Kamniktit", and simalteneous adding
of explosive mixtures; one-story high, of stone construction, 15 x 20 in,
with tin roof. Twenty people are employed here..
43. Dining room with ditchen and wash room; of stone construction with
tile roof.
41,42,47,48. Three buildings where the "Kamniktit" is mixed again and ground before
going into the mills; one-story high, of stone construction, 15 x 12 in,
with tin roof. Each building has three men employees.
51. Storage Department attached to building 52; one-story high, 12 x 10 in,
. with a tin roof. Small materials are stored here.
52. Department for pressing of gunpowder cylinders; one-story high, of
stone construction, 12 x 10 in, with tin roof. Six men are employed here.
56. Gunpowder Section Chief's Office; one-story high, of stone construction,
1Ox1O in, with a tile roof. Five people are employed here.
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59. Department for the production of' fast burning 'ratchee; one-story high, of
stone construction, 30 x 15m, with a tin roof. One hundred people,
mostly women, are employed here.
60. Hydraulic press for pressing of gunpowder; of concrete construction,
25 x 15 m, with concrete roof. Eight, men are employed here.
62. Department for production of gunpowder grains; blown up by act of sabotage.
65. Sorting Department for gunpowder grains; one-story stone construction,
12 x 12 m, with a tin roof. Six men are employed here.
65, 851. Departments for the production of black powder gr"ins; one-story high, of
stone construction,- 12 x 10 m, with a tin roof. Sight people are
employed here,
67. Second sorting department for black powder grains, one-story high, stone
construction, 15 x 10 m, with a tin roof. Four people are employed hero.
68,69. Department for polishing black powder grains; one-story high, of stone
construction, 15 x 12 m, with a concrete roof. Four peoplo are employed
here.
71. Small storage department; $tone construction 4 x 4 m.
76. Horse and cattle stables.
85. Gatekeeper Prelesnik's office with quarters attached; stone building,
12 x 10 m. The gatekeeper is from Liaknik.
86. Two new wooden storehouses.
87. Dam on the stream with channel to power plant.
Miscellaneous: The plant is surrounded by a barbed wire fence two meters high.
The watchmen stand at five posts marked on the map (filled in circles).
Night guards are changed frequently.
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