MILITARY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE AT PODMOKLY ( SKETCHES)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 20, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM NO.
NOV 1948
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMO' SON REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Military Technical Institute
at Podmokly (Sketches)
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF I
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT 50
U. S. C.. 31 AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON 15 PRO-
HIBITED BY LAW, REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED. HOW
EVER INFORMATION CONTAINED IN BODY OF THE FORM MAY BE UTILIZED
AS DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE RECEIVING AGENCY.
DATE DISTR. 20 June 1949
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
four sketches and keys to the sketches concerning the Military 50X1-H
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Technical Institute at Podmokly
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age and ti tian dump at Ludvikov ce
Sketch of the military Pirtn;-? rra
near Podmoay. The VT1 ear ies 3ut experimental firing here. The
guard squad is located in tI rd house and consists of twelve men
and one co a,nder.
to Sketch A
1. Telephone to guard room.
2. Telephone
3. VTU gunpowder (rod
4. Boxes containing ar?povd.= er
5. Cannon powder charges
6. Warheads and root projectiles
7. Katushas., bombs (booby magnetic : .nec
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Skew B
Location of the SITU in Pod-rok ly, within the CKD compound. The main
VTU compound is shown enclosed bsr a line of small circles (oo00oooo).
This compound (except the buf dirsx;s numbered 1-5, 13, 16, and 17) is
shown in detail on Sketch C, share, the same key numbers are used. The
ground floor plan of the bu3.Icdin numbered 13 is shown separately on Sketch
D. The administrative officers of the VTU (No. 17) are in the same building
(fourth floor) with the officos of the Skoda Plant, above No. 16.
Y to.etch
1, VTU laboratry
2. VTU stores
KSC (Czech Communist Part r) secretariat
4. Workshop for liquid-rover d rockets
5. Storeroom for P-1 i `*j
6. V'TU stores
7. Bunker (underground cone to shelter) approxir ateiy 6 meters deep;
testing room for rockets, and storage of liquid- powered rockets
8. Aunition dump
9. Water cistern (swum: ,n Sol)
10. Testing room (with dynamic: brats for turbine motors
11. Coal s*r.ge
12. Guard room
13. CKA boiler workshop on 77-3unc :.floor, containing VTU machine shop
and laboratories
14. Gate
15. Trees
16. VTU laboratory
17. VTtT administrative office-3 on fourth floor
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Detailed plan of the VTU compavmzd at Pcdmokly. This sketch forms and en-
laitged part of Sketch B and shows the rain VTU compound, except for the
buildings numbered 1 through 5 13, 16, and 17, which are located outside
the main compound. The key num ers correspond to those shoran on Sketch B.
These have in some instances ~n subdivided (e.g. 8, 8a, 3b, 8c) in order
to show details within larger o-ajecE;s. Other objects which were not shown
on Sketch 3 appear on Sketch C ?u d.er key . nbers 18 through 4.4.
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7b,
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Storeroom R-1
Storeroom R-2
Storeroom R-3
Underground concrete
room for rockets
Underground concrete
Ammunition dump
Gunpowder storage
shelt~ar (about 6 meters deep), used as a testing
helta
Storeroom P-2, for ignitioi
Store P-3, for projectile
ke 7a);
Swimming roof (water cistc rn)
Testing room for turbine
Coal storage
Guard house
Corridor inside guard hou
Main gate
Trees
Mines (showpieces)
Fuel tank., for turbine
Sentry
Mobile oxygen plants
Torpedo parts
"Goliaths" (small armored
Oxygen plant
Sloping drive to undergrou:s?
Mobile electrical laboratory
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Cases with Henschel rockets
Cases with metal fuel bottles
for rockets
Dump of iron pipes
Du p of iron pipes
Gas station
Hydrant
(laboratory)
German rocket-launching mirar;
Stabilization fins of V-2 (howpiece)
Storage of packing casen
Stores of various znat 3ri_als
Glider plane
Oxygen plant
Chimneys for exhaust gases from underground
Oxygen plant
Methyl alobhol tanks
Gun carriage
Reads of Henschel rockets
Cases with 9enG--hel rocket
laboratory
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storage of liquid-driven rockets
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Sketch 2
Building No. 13. The upper floor it occupied by the CKD boiler workshop.
VTQ machine shops and laborator1es a located or, the ground floor. The
inset drawing gives a front vieq of the building.
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Sentry
Office of Lt. Col. Liska anti. 1aff Capt. Grosman
Heating Installation for Sloe Print
Corridor
Motorcar repair shop
Electrical accessories
Stores of sheet metal and iro - : Sre
Store room for iron and timber
Office
Armory
Storeroom
Storeroom
Corridor, carpentry
Storage of P-i projectiles
Storage of parts for P-1
Laboratory and workshop for P-i w pone
Assembly shop for turbines
Machine shop
Press (stamping press)
Machine short and electrical workshop
Power drill
Power lathe
Testing shop (checking of product i and materials)
X-ray installation for chec'd x,g of turbine crankshafts
Office of workshop supervisor~. =sir. Chaloupka, Mr. Kaderka
Bathroom
Checkroom
Tempering forge
Blueprints
Machine shop
Stamping presse
Power save
Turning lathes for gun barrel
Lathe
Power lathe
Thread-cutting machines
Horizontal drill press
Grinding lathe and polishin? . !achirae
Power planers
Lathe benches
Power drills
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Keto Sketch D (Con't)
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Drill presses
Varnishing machine (installat son)
Grinding lathe for round surf oor
Drill presses
Power lathes
-xygen plant
Electrical measuring labnrr:tb 7
Oscillograph
Connecting cables (elect-tic ri rina) leading to experimental firing range
Dark room
Dark room
Varnishinn room
Varnishing kiln
Tool stores
Tool-sharpening; machine
Drillhead-shaxPening rns.c
Flat grinding lathe
Firing mechanism
Wall of reinforced concrete
Iron case tilled with sand
Electric grids (gauges) Tnea tiring! velocities of projectile
Armor-piercing weapon
Trolley on rails
Shock absorbers (buffers)
Gate
Sentry post
Corridors
Storeroom for screws, nuts, 8nd similar accessories
room
Sentry post
Garage
Wood dump
Wood dump
Gas station
Hydrant
Experimental firing: range
I. New workshop for P-1 weapons
II. Testing shop for P-1 weapons
III. Varnishing shop
IV. Room for eleecrical.: nea urin;
V. Machine shop
'I. Oxygen plant
VII. Main entrance
VIII. Office of Lt. Col. Liska and Staff Capt. Grosman
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$I. Archives
ICI. Apprentices' School
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