ALLEGED SECRET WORK AT A SLATE QUARRY NEAR SONNEBERG THURINGIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007800730008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 13, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2009/01/06: CIA-RDP80-00810A007800730008-1
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. 25X1
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Alleged Secret Work at a Slate
Quarry near Sonneberg, Thuringia
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE DISTR. 13 September 1955
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
In Kreis Sonneberg Thuringia, on the road from Steinach to Haselbach, there is
a large slate quarry. For approximately six weeks, about 300 laborers have
been working at this site. The broken slates which is ground to meal, is said to
receive an admixture of a poisonous substance. As a result, the air is perme-
ated with an odor resembling that of caraway. This poisonous substance is said
to be delivered by the Schering Fabrik fuer Chemi.sche Erzeugnisse, East Berlin. 25X1
2. After the poisonous substance has been added to the slate meal, this is poured
into piper sacks and loaded onto railroad cars which leave immediately.
Five to six carloads leave the site daily. The shipments are said to go to
Kaliningrad Oblast, RSFSR (formerly East Prussia), where the shipments are
said to be further processed in an unidentified plant. The shipments are
accompanied by members of the SSD and by Sbri.t military persoxxel,
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