SDAG WISMUT: OBJECT 96 I DRESDEN-GITTERSEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008000410007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 23, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material oaatains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the =apionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 193 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT SDAG Wiemut: Object 96 I,
Dresden-Gittermee
DATE OF INFO.
DATE ACQUIRED
1. Since the end of May 1955, the staff of Object 96 I has been reduced by about
100 workers. Of those who were no longer needed, the sludge pressers have
been transferred to Object 96 II at Freital and some other workers to
Thuringia; the remainder have been dismissed.
2. The reduction in staff in the plant has been instituted since Zeche IIIa
began to operate. Formerly, two men attended two presses in Zeche III (i.e.,
90 men for 90 filter presses); each sludge presser now looks after from
two to three filter presses. In concentrate presses in Zeche III, a team
of two pressers now attends from 7 to 9 filter presses,
3. ec IIIa is manned entirely by Russians; other workers in the plant have
no general access to it. Since Zeche Me began operating, the concentrate
pressing process now sometimes takes 25 ? 40 minutes instead of the average
4 to 4+ hours. On these occasions, in the opinion of concentrate filter
press operators, the material coming to the concentrate presses is of
inferior quality to that which takes a longer time to filter. The difference
in filtrate time arises when the output from Zeche IIIa exceeds the capacity
of the mixing vats and settling vats into which it normally flows; the
output from Zeche IIIa is then led directly into the precipitation vats.
4. From 19 April to 2 May, the,concentrate filter presses in Zeche III completed
1,241 filtrations; each filtration was made up of an average of 3.2 cu.m. of
material. From 2 to,13 Y Y9: 854 filtrations of an average of 2.9 cu.m. of
material were completeda Ih he latter period, the material was of normal
quality but dense and thee required longer filtration times.
SuDD1Y of Ore
5. Ore from Gera arrives in Fri tW' ,, by rail and is transnorted from there to
the factory in trucks driven"1y Russians.
the loading process is mechanized.
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6. Material from the dumps in the Dresden area is still bein
but it in not last 8 processed,
ing so long as was expected. It is intended to reopen
the Gitteraee mines in the near future.
, my of Concentrate from Object 96 II-to 96 1.
7. Conoentrate from Freital is at present brought to Gittersee in closed
trucks driven by Russians.
8. The construction of a pipeline from Freital to the Gittersee concentration
plants was mentioned at a production discussion for German workers in
Gittersee about three months ago. Preliminary work has been started at
the Freital end of the pipeline.
9. Pony: Head of Zsgje III, Object 96 I;
Qrlmras Head o! laborato Ob ect 96 I?
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