THE EAST GERMAN MAGNESIUM PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002200230033-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2004
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: September 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
I At -a conference of the Non-Ferrous Metal Section of the Manning Main
rt9partmen-t of the State Administration for 1,-ateri.e'.i Supply -in. which
,5i-hiller fnu), technical. chief of the Elektro-Chemisches Kombinat
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:0,terfeld VEE; Lindner (fnu), chief of the Materiels Accavr:ting
r?irtment of the State Adminiatratiog.for 11 a io1 SuF l ' aid i repre,,en-
iative of the Chemistry Pain E~.dirinistration, ,took pe-r
the 1953 economy plan provided a magnesium production of lIvu, y qr.
.i,,000 tons of.magnesium in the first, second, third and fourth quarter i
153 respectively with a total of 1,300 tons in the whole year,:
a new magneslw production plant in the 1!:1ektrr..
t henlsches Kombinat V F _r..itterfeld was scheduled to start producing on
October 1953 and. most probably would be cor,pleted according, to time t: ~l :
the plant would deliver most of its cag< is3.um prca.ac..-
t con to the Vehicle Euliding Industry "ain /dministration with the Flu not
torenrerk Dessau, former Junkers---Worker as presumable rain purchaser in
fourth quarter of the year?
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=ootmctlonof magnesium alloys. The production of pure magnesium, cornfe
giiently, started not until 1953. It is to be taken into consideration iliav
is addition to the use of magnesium by Junkers Desesu pure magnesium :,g 'asau
a, reducing agent for the production of umnic oxide.
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Approved For.-Release 2004/07/08: CIA-RDP80-00810AO02200230033-6