classi ed Axdlton'ty 3 54 6 By Dorothy Johnson CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This material contains mtomulon enacting the National Defense of the'Unlua sum within the meaning of mo nylon-go um Title II 1 8 0 Seal 193 and 19 the tumor or revelation of Which In any manner to an unauthonud person in pmh lblud by law -4B-e-e-R-err COUNTRY USSR leasnoyarsk Kray REPORT NO E SUBJECT Security Precautions at Secret DATE DISTR 3 October 1957 Plant 93b in Severo-Yeniseyekiy no PAGES 2 REQUIREMENT NO RD DATE OF REFERENCES INFO Mid-1957 PLACE DATE ACQ I ARE DEFINITIVE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATWE SOURCE Plant 23b is located 1 5 km from Severo Yeniseyskiy N 60-2 92-54 in Krasnoyarsk Kray The plant site which i eight km long forms the center of a security zone 15 km in diameter whh i cannotbe entered without a special permit There are approximately eight watchtowers in the area They are equipped with searchlights and are permanently manned by details of two or three soldiers who are armed with machine guns The four gates to the compound are located to the north south east and west and are designated by numbers There are a number of buildings on the site which are occupied by sheps tsekthhe most important of which appears to be Tsekh No 3 it is permanently guarded by an unusually large number of sentries The sentries at Tsekh No 3 are sometimes under the command of an officer while the other shops are each guarded at the entrance by one sergeant and one private only The total guard personnel consists of three units of approximately 300 men each who occupy barracks at the perimeter of the plant compound The site is guarded 2h hours a day and each detail is relieved every five hours While not on guard the sentries are considered off duty but are confined to their barracks 2 The workers arrive at 0800 hours by means of the plant's trolley buses They work in three five-hour shifts Upon their arrival the workers identify themselves by their special passes which they surrender to the officer at the gate The officer retains the passes which he files in numerical order in a large chest and returns them to the workers upon their departure The signatures of the military commander a sample of which is kept with the officer of the guard and the plant director are on the passes In addition the workers are searched in a rather perfunctory manner and requested to forfeit all matches and cigarettes in their possession since such articles are strictly forbidden within the confines of the enterprise Having passed the outer gate the workers go directly to their respective shops at the entrance of which are posted a sergeant and a private to check a second pass This pass which is retained by the worker bears the signatures of the military commander or the official in charge of the guard unit and the head of the shop concerned as well as the number of the shOp sem m1 my 1 I sun lunar Ub Nair Washington dImibuiion indicated by Pic dimib ion by iwl q FJCD 2' 8 Swiss 32x1 NF- OR-M A I troy'N PORT DocId 31432920 VI l_ 253 Authority ED I -2- Employees are forbidden to enter an work The worker then goes to an elevator where civilian guards are posted to check a third pass of unknown description and is taken to the actual plant installations all of which are entirely underground The b 1ldings aboveground are one-story structures approximately four meters h-gh Inside near the elevator there is a buffet where workers are supplied with milk and buttered bread free of charge Guard orders are so strict that the sentry must give his undivided attention to the traffic at the gate and has practically no opportunity to talk to the elevator attendant structure besides their own place of The workers arrive at the plant dressed in overalls and proceed through the above routine without entering into conversation among themselves A tremendous heat rises from the elevator shaft throughout the day and the workers perspiring profusely periodically go the the buffet for a drink of milk At the end of the shift the workers return by trolley bus to their homes which are located near the plant The residential quarter contains a movie theater a theater and various kinds of shops The workers are free to go into town when they please however Some people are convinced that the plant is an atomic energy installation Members of the guard units are strictly forbidden to speculate on this subject in their conversations and the troops are reminded at every opportunity of Regulation No 303 according to which excessive curiosity in this respect is a punishable offense l Soldiers are transferred to another location after twelve months of duty during which time they were detailed to the same gate or shop to prevent them from acquiring additional knowledge of the plant Because of the difficult conditions under which they work the guards at the site receive better pay than is customary a private is paid 350 rubles a month while a sergeant is paid 650 rubles a month New guards cannot assume their duties until their security clearance has been obtained from Moscow Every day a truck delivers twelve heavy iron barrels each 120 cm high and 50 cm in diameter to the plant The barrels which arrive by boats on the Yenisey River are loaded onto the truck by a crane and unloaded from the truck by heavy chains at the plant The shipments are carried out withOut a military escort Once a week at irregular intervals a truck leaves the plant carrying 20 barrels which are of galvanized iron 50 50 70 cm in size They are escorted by members of the security forces who refer to them as noodles The total number of workers at the plant has been rumored to be no more than 2 000 and there is no convict labor at the plant Visitors frequently arrive at the plant ostensibly by invitation of the management Among the industrial plants in Severo-Yeniseyskiy is a very large power station and approximately 60 km from the town are seven forced labor camps whose inmates work mostly in the forests l-EComment In one case the political officer was informed that a soldier had told a friend that uranium was processed at the plant Upon hearing this the officer ordered a meeting of the unit at which the soldier was severely reprimanded as somebody whose loose talk was liable to be exploited by foreign spies to the detriment of the Soviet people In this context the officer stated that nothing other than gunpowder was produced at the plant No one believed him In another known case the unit commander instructed a soldier to inform him of any talk among the troops on the subject -- - - DocId 31432920                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu