1. DISGUISED MILITARY PLANT IN KRAKOW 2. CENTRAL BUREAU FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF FOUNDRY MACHINERY

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• Publication Date: December 9, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
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 Poland
SUBJECT 1. Disguised Military Plant in Krakow DATE DISTR.
2. Central Bureau for?the.Construction
of Foundry Machinery
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
9 DEC 17
NO. PAGES 4
REQUIREMENT
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
Military Plant in Krakow
1. A military plant in Krakow, using the cover name of Tin Can Factory (Fabrya
Wyrobow Blaszanych), is located on Wroclawska Street approximately 500 meters
from the military hospital. Before World War II,.the Bogdanowicz Tin Can
Factory actually occupied the site. It is near 'the railroad line leading to
Katowice, approximately one kilometer west of the central freight railroad
station in Krakow, and covers an area of 300 x 400 meters. The pedestrian and
vehicle entrance to the plant is on Wroclawska Street, on which side there is
an iron netting and barbed-wire fence two meters high. The second entrance to
the plant is for the branch railroad. line.
2. Construction of the plant began in 1949, according to the original plan, for t
manufacture of tin cans for canned products. .While still under construction.,-
however, the plant came under the control of the army and the Central Administration
for Building Machines (Centralny Zarzad Maszyn Budowlanskych). The central
administration has occupied the same building as the Ministry of Heavy Ind
on Kurcza Street in Warsaw, since 1954, before which time it was located a
53 Nowogrodzka Street in Warsaw. It is in charge of all plants manufactur
tanks, the most important of.which are the Labeoundry in Labedy and thee'
Factory in the Wola suburb of Warsaw.
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In early 1954, the plant was composed of the folk Ag.
a. A central, two-story building, which was occupiedi~ of the
management, the construction bureau, the chief techno , planning
department, and the department for the insepction of finied products.
b. Two large industrial halls attached to the central building, which were
occupied by all of the production departments. These included the mechanical,,
toolmaking, thermal processing, and galvanization. shops, the stores for finished
products, and the workshop of the chief mechanic.
Bogdanowicz factory.
c. A one-story building, which was planned to be used by the galvanization
department. The building formerly served as a garage and dispensary for the
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d. Two wooden huts, one of which was occupied by the administration and supply
departments and the other by the transport and auxiliary departments.
e. The La Monta-type boiler department and stores for raw materials.
f. A small building near the entrance to the plant, for the porter and the personnel
department.
4. Until late 1953, the plant was chiefly engaged in the manufacture of fuel tanks for
T-34 tanks, although more than 50 various sheet iron accessories for the T734 were also
produced. The fuel tanks were inner flat (sic) ones in the shape of triangles,
rectangles, and rhomboids. After being subjected to a thorough acid cleaning and
galvanization process, the tanks were covered with gray-green paint on the outside and
oil paint on the inside. No external reserve (cylindrical) tanks were produced there.
The production program of the plant was executed according to Soviet technical
documentation and the finished products were intended for-'the Labedy Foundry in Labedy.
7 In late 1953, the plant was transferred from the control of the Central Administration
for Building Machines to that of the central administration in charge of all aircraft
(WSK) plants. The plant has since produced aircraft components, chiefly for the air-
craft factories in Mielec (N 50-17, E 21-25) and Rzeszow. In March 1954, approximately
N,500 workers were employed at the plant.
6. The plant is very well equipped. The toolmaking department contains approximately
40, very modern machines of Soviet, Czech, and East German manufacture. It also
contains some Swiss-manufactured machines which were requisitioned from other plants.
Approximately 300 modern machines are concentrated in the other production depart-
ments and include both those imported from abroad and those transferred from other
Polish plants. Two machines of interest at the plant are the coordination (2)
lathes, one large and one small one, which were imported from East Germany.
Central Bureau for Construction of Foundry Machinery
7. The Central Bureau for Construction of Foundry Machinery (Centralise Biuro Konstrukcyjne
Maszyn i Urzadzen Odlewniczych - CBKMiUO), located at No. 72 Zakopianska Street in
Krakow, is the only bureau in Poland dealing with technical documentation for
foundries. It was. established in 1947 and is subordinate to the Ministry of Heavy
Industry through the Central Administration for Foundries (c;entrainy Zarzad Przemyslu
Odlewniczego) in Radom.
8. The bureau occupies the two top floors of the four-story building of the Krakow Institute
of Foundries (Krakowskie Zaklady Od.lewnicze). Approximately 200 workers a e employed
by the bureau) of whom approximately 160 are technical personnel (engineers.,
technicians, and draftsmen). and 40 administrative personnel.
9. During the last few years, designs for the following types of machinery have been
worked out by the bureau: Ir _ rI ' 11
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a. Mold-manufacturing machines (formierki).
b. Material-mixing machines for the manufacture of molds (mieszarki).
c. Screening machines (sitawstrzasowe).
d. Furnaces for casting mixtures ofimetals (kupolofen).
e. Tanks (receptacles) and transporters.
10. The bureau also fulfills orders from abroad. The plans for two foundries in. Nor-,
Korea were compiled in 1956 by the bureau's engineers, under the supervision of
Sapinski (fnu) and Maciejewski (fnu), and construction began late in the same year.
The equipment for these foundries is in part supplied by the FAMO plant (Fabryka
Maszyn Odlewniczych) on Cystersow Street in Krakow.
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11. The following personalities are reported:
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Dmytrow (fnu),
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b. Drozynski (fnu
Furyk (fns.)
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Jaglarz (fnu),
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Pilawski (fnu
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Zygmunt Dudka,
Witold Fit,
i. Maciejewski (fnu.),
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k. Sapinski (fnu),
1. Zygmunt Szzanda,
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A* Location of the , itary plant
B. location of Its bu .ldings and depart ente t
L. 1ding for the porter and the cadre depart:ao
2. Administration building (supply,, finance departments etc.)
2a. 1 estaurant
Industrial halls
3a. Club
3b, :Hain building, Bch is occupied by the offices of the
manage lent, construction b eau$ chief technolo[,tst,, etc,
building which is occVled by the departments for the
chief mechanic and transport,
5,. La 1 onta boiler department
Vii. Stores for raw materials
U. Garage
7b. Dispensary
7o. Galvanization deoartment
X Direction to Katowice.
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