THE UTVA AIRCRAFT FACTORY NEAR PANCEVO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008000020007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 20, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL BITELLIGENCE, AG NC!
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6. Acting Director of Utva is Major I.ireta. Chief of Personnel is Captain
Dusan Lukic; Chief of the blacksmith shop f s Miha jlo Freselo, who formerly
resided in the United States; chief of.the tool shop is IMajlo Hornjak
and the Chief Engineer is an unknown German under contract at the plant.
I-lost of the skilled workers are also German. There are 1500 employees and
workers, the number called for by the quota. Most workers are soldiers. in
civilian. clothes who work In the factory as military service and receive
no pay. In addition., uniformed soldier-workers are ,also employed who are
housed in eight barracks constructcd `nr them behind the factory along the
Starcevo road adjacent to a three story building used as a club.
7. The factory's transportation consists of eight trucks and one tractor. The
construction of a railroad siding was begun in 1949.
8. The factory layout ` includes the workshop building, 150 x 80 meters in dimen-
sion; the old assembly building, 100 x 30 meters; the tool and paint shop,
80 x 20 meters; the transformer station; the carpentry shop; the new assembly
workshop and locksmith shop,, 150 x 50 meters; the riehouse; the blacksmith
shop- the garage and automobile workshop and a f our--story m geanent office
bui3.di.ng. The factory has its own cement runway inhere tests are made on the
planes. One thousand meters long, the r=ay is located northeast of the
factory buildings and in close proximity to them. Its large proportion is
necessary since the factory also works on heavy bombers. A sketch of the
factory layout is attached.
9. Sabotage at the Utva plant is fairly frequent and completed planes allegedly
have been sprinkled with gasoline for burning. One plane was reportedly half
burned in 1949. Inflammable material is strictly forbidden in the. workshops
and, although gasoline cans can often be found there, official investigations
of the cause have been unsuccessful.
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Comment: Your attention is called to
reported previously on the Utva Factory.
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