CONDITIONS IN KUTNA HORA/NEARBY KANK URANIUM PIT/AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000900590001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved Fa?wi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Subject: Conditions in Kutna Hora/Nearby Kank Uranium Pit/Airfield Construction.
Place Acquired:
Date Acquired: late Nay 1953
Date of Info: to April 1953
Source:
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2. "The branch of the Building Plants (Stavebni Zavody) national enterprise at Kutna
Hora, is the largest of four branches with head offices at Kolin. The other branches
are at Nymburk, Podebrady and Mestec Kralove. The director at Kolin is (fnu) Baron,
a former unskilled worker who has no qualifications for his present post. He has
a reputation as a heavy drinker.
3. "The plant at Kutna Hora employs about 150 persons. The director is Vaclav Rezabek.
The chairman for the TU Council (zavodni rada) for the whole enterprise is Jan
Povolny, whose office is in Kolin. Each branch of the enterprise has its own CP
organization. The chairman of the CP organization in the plant at Kutna Hora is
Jaroslav Kudrna. The average monthly pay for a mason in march 1953 /lpr to
currency refo was 3,500 cr. There were no shockworkers beca7ase moral vas as
low as the pay. To reduce absenteeism, a new regulation was introduced .March:
additional ration cards would be withdrawn from every worker who miyed two hours
of work without good reason. _--
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Uranium Minn
"Uranium ore was discovered at the Kank mine near Kutna Hora about JanuS-ry 1953.
Some 800 people-- miners and administrative personnel -- were hired. in'March the
pit was flooded and shut down. During this shut-down the employees received small
allowances and were not allowed to find other jobs.
Local Officials
5. "The chairman of the Local National Council at Kutna Hora is Ladislav Juva, former-
ly caretaker of the local school. The security referent is (fnu) Prochazka, a
Communist of long standing. TR 1; i
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6. "The STB offices: at Kutna Hora are located opposi e ky,Dvur. I
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-(fnu) Bares, who lives in Nove Dvory, and reports each day at the STB offices.
-(fnu) Domalip, who worked for the criminal police before World War II, for
the Gestapo during the war, and in 1945 joined the STB.
7. "A motorized infantry unit is stationed at Kutna Hora. The main car park is lo-
cated in the old garrison.
Airfield Construction
8. "About two km from the center of Caslav, a large airfield was under construction
(initial stages) in spring 1953. The runways are being built on land that was
formerly the cemetery of the village of Chatusice.
Domovni KnilXy
9. "The domovni khihy (house books) were introduced in Kutna Hora in autumn 1952.
Every person who enters a house C apartment building?J must report to the super-
intendent and sign in a book: name, purpose of visit,. tenant to be visited. If
the person comes from another town he must indicate date of arrival and proposed
length of stay. The domovni knihhyy all have grey covers."
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