SPECIALIZED PRODUCTION OF SILESIAN-STEEL MILLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A004400060006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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2. "In Polish Upper Silesia the '7,omiets have f.L.lied most o4.:' the aatrative
and executive posts with they own specialists and eng'Cneers. They are
now realizing two productIo,n plans? a. short-term plAl.n HIO R, rspor,ead
over many yes.
30 "The -1'-ov1et,shoTt-term plan is ooncerned wlth developlrg
the-extradtion of coal. A. record. hJ..,s been established 1,6.,th the ToTucition
of 120 million tons La rof (coal in 1350 (8 Mion to more thn
the best year, 1944, uEsr German. wartime exploAtations). Of:
that is siined yearly, however, only 25 miAlien tons re-1,1n
The bulk is being exhorted in order to get bare currercy andier tr,7,ry
unobtainable in the countres of the Soviet Bloc. _
40 "The production of the bsip., oteel mAls has been specialized W7T:,'W,r117 to
the current needs cf'Sovet.war production. The Hut a K.ro.le, rrli
concentrates on armorplates4 The Hula. Baldora. produces heavy gu:n.: a'A
shells. ,The Donnersmercie-Fuotte (011J. German rame, FollA alzy .Lit
available) prodmes paTts of ,ships and torpedoes. The Bismarck.-Hdette
(old German name., present, rollsh name not available) produces parto o''' '
submarine and rafils.
50146st of the iron ore row comes :fTOTP the Ukrainiam
It Is much poorer than the pt43-44.ar 7:74edlish ores.
6.0qn Gliwice, the construction W' a. tig stee1 combine is nearing cumbletio.
As from "J.95:6 it la expected to produce yearly 3,85 million tons of ;i7,:on
and 1 million tons of steel,
7The problem of housing the workers for the greatly expanded indestTy is
leading to the creation of Tntroly new dormitory towns. 71d,:' lo-
,cality *nown for hr we heing used for -this purposft,!.?
it has a, population of?aout 35,000 and, eventually, it .is to hf:,,e P
population of 150 thowand working people"
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