TESLA ROZNOV NATIONAL ENTERPRISE AT ROZNOV POD RADHOSTEM

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• Publication Date: June 16, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.B.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia REPORT
DATE OF INFO.
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Teslr. Roznov National Enterprise
at Rcznov pod Radhostem
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEF ITIVE.
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The building in which the Tesla works is located west of Roznov pod Radhostem
(N 19-289 E 18-08), was erected in 1947. It was originally intended for the
Moravsko-Slezske Pletarske Zavody (Moravian-Silesian Knitting works). In 1949,
however, the partially finished buildings were taken over by Tesla9
which moved some of its works from Vrchlabi and Prague. Building. of the plant
is not yet finished. In summer 1953 the construction of a third production
building was begun. The south border of the plant is formed by the railway line,
which ends at'Roznov station. A new main road runs along the south side of the
Valasske Mezirici-Roznov railway line. At the southern edge of the factory, the
Becva River bends to. the north, almost touching the main road. The.original road
from Zubri joins the new road at the southwest corner of the works, where the
railway line also crosses it. The east side of the works runs off at right angles
to the railway line., about 500 meters from the main station building. The new
road skirts the north side of the works,. along the embankment., and runs practically
parallel with the railway line. The area of the works is 1400-.500 meters long and
300-350 meters wide.
2. The Tesla Works at Roznov is an independent enterprise, directly under the Ministry
of General Machinery. It producers
a. Radio tubes for civilian use;
be A "special production" of ordinary.types of, tubes which may also be used for
civilian needs;
A super-secret production under military control. It has its own design and
research staff so that probably no one but the chief engineer and the manager
of the plant know about produc ti on in this department. Ordinary employees
have no admittance to this department,
Production for the civilian sector includes
tubes of the series AZ 1, AZ 1,10 ABL9 EEL, UBL, UCH, EM (11,12), AZ 124 AZ 11..
Capacity is not known, Production for the civilian sector has to offset
partly the expenses of military production.
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9. Testa Industrial School, an industrial boarding school, has been set up in
the plant. The curriculum is similar to that of the ordinary four-year,
industrial schools., in which pupils work in the morning and attend classes
in.the afternoon. There is also a course for matriculating pupils$ i.e. for
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the industrial school and work in the plant in the mornings. They have their
own teacher and have as little contact as possible with the Czechs,
10. In 1953, the. plant was guarded by about 30 members of the works militia. Four
of them were. women. They were armed with pistols and had dogs. In 1.95L, a unit
of the Interior Guard assumed guard duty at the plant, No one is admitted to
the plant without a works pass. A check is also made by slapping workers'
pockets at the gate. A special pass is needed for the boarding school building
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11. Personnel2
Managers Karel Vancl
Security Officials Vilem Poymana
Chief Engineers Frantisek Karnik
Chief designer and head of the development departments E ng. Josef Hejzlar,
Cadre officials Otta Hejny9l
Head of the works and wages departments Jan Fejgl,,
Head of the personnel departments (fnu) Furch
Works accountants Eng. (fnu) Peters,
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Deputy Works Accountants (fnu) Soukup
Works Planning Official: (fnu) Kulistak
Employed in the planning departments Rudolf Myslivec
Head of production: Bohuinil Matejka,
Head of control department: (fnu)Svobod
Control. personnel: En g. (fnu) Sask~
Head of the, chemical department EngQ Bedrich Rous
Employe.d.in the chemical department: Jiri Kopeck
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1. Fence,, iron grating mounted on a stone base, surrounding the whole factory. 25X1
2. function road, a new road, leading from the north side of the plant and joining
the main road on the embankment.
3. Main entrance, on the north side, opposite the boarding school. The gatekeeper's
lodge for this entrance is in the building which also contains the garages and
the.fire---fighting equipment.
L Entrance for t hes building workers, in the southeast o rner of the plant,, with a
small gatekeeper's lodge.
Roads inside the factory - these are paved with stone blocks, and a paved path
runs along the north side of the production halls.
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6. The original 7-storied building of the Morav.an-Silesian Knitting works
is situated roughly in the middle of the factory enclosure. It is built
of reinforced concrete, faced with bricks4 The measurements are aboi:t
100-350 x 30 meters. The main entrance is in the northeast corner.
2nd,floors Technical archives; special department (fords rly security),
pay office, tools-issuing shop, instrument shop, construction., electrical
maintenance, boiler room and machine shop and maintenance,
3rd floor. Works offices, production department for Type AZ, glass, bulb
caps and wires, issuing and preliminary control of material.
4th floor.- Works offices, Type UCH 219 production department control?
5th floors Store for material, preparations, grid production, Eng. Saska's
checking section, and profile projector for checking parts.
6th floors Special Department - military production., assembly of miniatures,
curren converter, pumping and sealing of bulbs.
Super-secret Dept.,, Eng. Gaja and military representative's office,
This.building is not really suitable for the production of tubes., for which-
abwolute cleanliness is essential. This cannot be maintained with concrete
floors.
7. New production buildings finished in December 1952,a bout 50 meters to the
east of the original building. The building is 5-storied but is the same
size and height as the preceding one, as the floors are somewhat higher.
The building is of reinforced concrete, with round pillars., faced with
masonry. It has central heatin and, in: addition, artificially maintained
temperature (heating by hot air.' The floors and walls are tiled.
1st floor.- Wolfram wire department, chemical laboratory (Rous), luminous
department., partial production of cathode-ray tubes. Material department
issuing of material (?).
2nd floors The. whole of this floor is given up to the making of cathode
ray tubes for television sets.
3rd floor. Wages, work and propaganda departments., pay sheets., works accountant,
purchasing department., calculating department, training department, cadre
department., manager?s secretary?s office, manager, production chief., chief
planner.
4th floor. Assembly.
h Mors Standards department, electro-technical laboratory,tube designing,
specification department,, machine designing, technical preparation of produc-
tion, instrument designing, production workshop, glaziers, translations., photo
copies., technical library, chief engineer, developers, physics laboratory.
When the third building is finished there will be some shifting of the above
departments,
8. Construction of a third production building on the west side of the old pro-
duction building began in summer 1953. It will probably be identical with
the second production building.
9. Industrial school and boarding house. on the north side of the factory, a little
to the west, Its construction is.roughly the same as the other buildings, 5
storied, The paved road runs round the boarding school and joins the main
communicating road at the main entrance,
10. The guard room and garages are ir .?'single-#'ioor building, 25 x 6 meters, west
of the main entrance. In the eastern part there is a guard room and gatekeeper's
officee and in the western part. three g aiages,,A gas pump is in the southeast
corner of. the garage.
11. Clearing shop for tubes for the civilian sector, in a one-story masonry building.
30 x 10 meters, at the northwest corner of the factory.
12. Wooden building used by the builders, at the point where the road to the produc-
tion halls branches off from the main road. There is also a concrete water tank,
3 meters in diameter.
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13. Store of explosives (nitrocellulose, used for makking tubes) in a rein-
forced concrete building, south of the garages.'--One-story, 20 x 8 m.,
with several small cells on both sides, closed by steel gates.
14. New, small,, reinforced concrete building, faced with masonry, east of the
store of explosives, by the main road, about 20 x 8 meters, It has no
windows and only iron gates,
15. Compressors, in a small brick building, 6 x 6 meters, opposite the new
building.
16. Boiler-house in the southwest corner of the factory. Reinforced concrete.,
15 x 15 meters, giving the impression of a 2-storied building. The chimney
is about 25 meters high.
17. Store for rejects, a wooden building, not far from the boiler house,
18. Two temporary buildings, used as stores for the builders,
19. Joiner's shop, in a one-story masonry building, 30 x 8 m,, not far from the
main entrance, on the road to the boarding school.
20. Sports stadium, north of the factory, between the boarding school and the
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21. Three blocks of new, 5-storied dwellings, extending north.,to the northeast of
the works, built in 1952-1953.
Commento Possibly infra-red equipment.
Comments Note the unusually long list of apparently non-Communist employees
an ti number of radio hams among the.
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