(SANITIZED) CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINE TOOL FACTORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A037000630001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 6, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY North Korea/Hungary/US
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
Construction of Machine Tool Factory
DATE DISTR. to September 1957
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1. Hungary received orders early in 1953 from the USSR to plan the construction
of a machine tool factory at Kupan, North Koreal which would be under the
supervision of Hungarian technicians on the spot. The plans when drawn up
provided for the adaptation of the factory to war requirements, such as
production of fuse mechanisms and. shell cases.
2. Delivery of factory parts to North Korea, made by way of the USSR, began in
the summer of 1955. The construction work was expected to be completed in
1958. Eight hundred persons were to be employed at the factory.
1. I 7Comment. Possibl identical with the machine tool factory
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in North Korea in September 1955 by the Hardware and Lathe Factory of
Budapest. On 5 April 1957 P'yongyang radio reported that a machine tool
factory was being built at Kusong with the aid of Hungarian technicians.
On 16 July 1957 it reported toe continuous arrival from Hungary of metal-
cutting machines, foundry and forging installations and construction equip-
ment at the Kusong Machine Tool Factory which was then under construction.
On 22 August 1957 Ptyongyang radio announced that a machine tool factory was
under construction in Kusong, Ptyongan-pukto with the assistance of Hungarian
technicians. A foundry shop measuring 7,300 square meters and the ground
work for a machine-building shop measuring 18,000 gquare meters were reported.
to be nearing completion. It was claimed that the factory would begin
.operations in 1961 and would produce more than 1,000 machine tools annually.
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Le ,,end for Sketch 6f Lachine Tool Factory at Kusan., North Korea.
1. Fence
2. Castin;;-breaking shop, with 1-ton convex raijraer
3. Works fire brigade station.
4. `workshop for manufacture of wooden castin-ferrzs
5. Ditto for metal forias.
6. Track for travelling-crane, 3b feet abcve ground.
7. 5 ton travelling-crane Arita 3 rotors
8. Casting-4shop, containing 8 storage bunkers, core-tu king
shop with drying-oven, 18 c nveyor belts for sand, a 2-
cupola furnace, pneumatic former and shaxing aochines
5. 2 cranes cf 2 ton capacity each.
10, 2 cranes for carrying forms (2 tons each)
11. 2 5-tan cranes
12. Shop for grinding castings
13. 1 5-ten crane
14. Rough-cuttiz,g workshop
15. Adiainistratiiui offices on both sides of the rough-outting
-ship. -
16. Power switchboard
17. Cranes for serving rough-cutting machines
18. Oil,paint and petrel store.
19. Boiler-house
20. Cooling-tower for high-capacity compressors in smithy.
21. Ds:npressor-hvase, with 2 160 kw,' and 2 120 kw. compressors
for supplying air to smithy-hammers.
22. Smithy, containing compressed-air hanurier?s, evens, and cranes.
23. Oxygen-container store.
24. Lumberyard
25. Factory railway, Kercan gauge,fcr steam leccmotives.
26. Trnnsforiner house with 1 800 KVA transformer
27. Rough-cutting shop.
28, Office building and telephone exchange.
29. Changing-reems, bath-house, N I room.
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cutting-shop (2 travelling-cranes)
maintenance workshop (1 travelling-crane)
hardening-shop (1 t:avelliL]g-ycrane)
tool-shop (1 travelling-crane)
carpenters' shop
assemblyrshop (2x1.5-ton travelling cranes)
painting!-shop
final reception and testing (lx5-ton travelling-
crane)
31. Recreation rooms and canteen
31. Kitchens
3e . Corimunication