BUCKAU-WOLFF, MAGDEBURG, PRODUCTION AND SALE OF DIESEL ENGINES AND ENGINE ACCESSORIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100140009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Soviet Zone)
25X1 SUBJECT Buckau-Wolff, Magdeburg , Production and Sale of
Diesel Engines and Engine Accessories
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F THE UNITED STATES. GITNIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 14. SECTIONS 7SS
IND 704, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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The-Buckau-Wolff works at Magdeburg (now "Karl Liebknecht" Corks) have been
transferred from Soviet authority to the DDR (German Peoplefs Republic), but
they continue as before to work on reparations orders. Nothing has changed
as regards calculations and supplies of material,
2.. Another 1500 hp., marine Diesel engine was finished at the end of Dec 1953, and
work was commenced on an 80 hp. engine. It is planned to build three of these
engines monthly.. A 300 hp. Diesel engine was loaded on 2 Jan 54, consigned to
the Mathias Thesen shipyard at Wismar.
3. Two 800 hp. Diesel eng:bir.,; are approaching completion. They are to be shipped
on a train leaving for Leningrad on 12 Jan 54 with a load of factory equipment
for a cellulose factory. Most of it wa delivered by the "Karl Marx" works of
Magdeburg, which also delivered 12 cases of accessories. Twelve acid pumps
were also delivered.
4. Four pressure bodies have been manufactured up to date,
5. Two chassis for rubble excavators with running gear'and engine were assembled
in Dec 1953 and delivered to ABUS Wildau,
6. Eleven tons of track shoes were produced in Dec 1953, most of which went to
the Soviet Union. The quota for the year 1953 was only 87.32 percent fulfilled.
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