KONEV STEELWORKS IN KLADNO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300030002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Konev Steelworks in Kladno
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1. The Konev Steelworks in Kladno employs a total of about 9,000 workerangt
including the volunteer brigades which are employed on week ends. Work ie
done in three shifts. The plant is surrounded by a wooden and iron fence
topped by barbed wire? and is guarded by a workers militia armed with pis-
tols. There have been a number of sit-down strikes (sic) in the plant ee a
result of poor wages. Because of this and the steady efflux of workers, who.
leave on account of poor safety measures taken in the plant, it has been
necessary since ',larch 1950 to use forced labor from a nearby camp and a labor
detail from Pankrac prison.
2. The plant is being enlarged by the addition of a fully automatic blast fur-
nace, which will increase the production capacity by between 30 and 40 per-
cent. Low-grade iron ore, containing between 20 and 30 percent iron, is
imported from the Krivoj Rog nines in the USSR. Other alloying metals and
coke come from domestic production. There is a severe shortage of high-grade
ore. Plant equip-lent is badly '.10rn and the low-grade ore tends to clog the
furnaces.
Attachment: Sket& of the Konev Steelworks in Kladno? with key.
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I - IV Gates and guardhouses
V Bridge over Lenin Street connecting the Konev plant with the Fold'
plant. The bridge carries four railroad tracks.
1 Plant infirmary
2 Coking plant. Additional coke is delivered from Vitkovice.
2a Wooden cooling water tower, 15 in high
3-5 Three reinforced concrete buildings connected with each other and
with the coking plant; synthetic gasoline is produced here as a by-
product of the coking plant production.
6 Two natural ponds
7 Two semi-automatic blast furnaces
7a Blast furnace under construction. It will be fully automatic
8 Iron ore storage, built on concrete pillars with a sheet Iron roof,
9 Ore dump and roasting furnaces
9a Concrete water reservoir
10 Coal-burning gas generators to heat the Cowper furnaces
11 Food warehouse
ha Washrooms
12, 12a Power station
13 Rolling mill
13a Locomotive repair shop
13b Eight Thomas convertors for processing iron frOm the blast furnaces
13c Casting section
13d New rolling mill and wire-drawing mill
14a-d Administration buildings
15 Repair shop
16 Eachine shop
17 Unknown
18 Locomotive shed for narrow-gauge factory railway
19 Chamotte brick shop
19a, b Chamotte mills
190 Chamotte brick storage
20 Freight yard for Kladno-Nucice
21 Lime kiln with three chimneys 20 in high
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