MILITARY AND INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATIONS IN RYBNIK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014400360003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 30, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For ReIEmb mAMMMEPW 7R0144R$D,
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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DATE DISTR. 30 Oetober 1952
SUBJECT Military and Industrial Installations in Rybnik NO. OF PAGES 1
COUNTRY Poland.
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infantry unitl arrived to take up positions in woods three kilometers
frog:Eybnik on the road leading to Itaciborzo
~'. A new airfield is being built about five kilometers from Rybnik in the
direction of Katowice, To react, the field, one travels four kilometers
along the road to Katowice, turns to the village of Karmen and try-vets
on to the village of Rzedowka? The airport is two kilometers away from
the n;;br..ik-.Katowice road, 1%zedod.wka has a railroad station from which a
spur was built into the nearby forest which contains the airfield., The
construction work is being done by the ',:arsaw "Unified Construction
( .,arszawskie L jednoczeni.e Budowlanc) 1firm.
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1. One military unit is stationed in. Rybnik, ;,j>l/Y2>.It is of regimental
.size and is stationed in barracks at Ulica Gliwicka, an
The to-vin - has two large industrial installations. The Silesia
Smelting Plant employs about 10,000 workers. It produces gasoline
canisters for the army, rolled steel and cooking utensils., The plant
is located in the suburb of Paruszowice, The Rybnik Ivaehine Yorks
employs about 5,000 workers.: Its products are unknown. The factory is
located at Ulica Boleslawa Bieruta; it -vas enlarZ.d from the pre-war
German. plant of the same type..
4. The coun.y 13 office at Frudnik (k~l/Fii3} is located at Ulica Generala
Swierczewskiego near the 11rudnik railroad station..
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The county Communist Party (`2 i-R) office is also at Ulica Swierczewskiego,
near the UB headouarters,
25X1 1.- I omment: This unit is larger than the one stationed in Ftybnik..
25X1 2. Comment: The 1911.7 population figure for Rybnik was 23,000.
If the population has not increased too greatly since then, it is rather
unlikely that one-half of the population of the town is employed in
one plant.
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