SOVIET EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR, GORKY, USSR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000300740002-4
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLJGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Soviet Employment of Prisoners ;of War,
Gorky, USSR
PLACE
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DATE
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE URI WITHIN THE MEANIND OF TITLE IS, SECTIONS 7I1B
AND 701, OF Tlit U.S CODE, AO AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISEIDN OS NEVE-
LATION 'OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT MY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
PROHISITED OY L.CW, THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
REPORT
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DATE DISTR. Jan 54
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1500 to 2500 prieomrs ? war, o, w
Austrian, Yugoelarian, and Rungariani
This Ts in Cetober 1946. The Director of the plant at that tc3,me
wa one aganairitch. The new WIldings,Were to house mathines And ni106,efit'tla
had been brought from Germany. The railroad sidings at the plant were piled
high with orete 6 and boxes of captured machines. names Merseburg and
LeunastA,!nciled on the sides 0-f these crates and boxes, what types
of machines and equipment there were in the boxes.
the area taken
Enclosure(k) sketch of Chemical Plant #96? Gorky will'show?-
up by the plant?.
40 k as at the north end of the area where new con5-15ruuulusi wmo
underway a building behind the administration building, ,It ward
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rete-brick construction, each concrete-brick weighing five or six.poUnds.
ditches for ten or fifteen large tubes between the power plant and this
building. I believe they Were for steam for heating purposed
a four-story building to the north and east of the above mentioned new building.
This was of the eame construction, excavating for three buildings
along the north railripad siding; construction was begun.
All construction *RB &one in a hurry and was very poor in quality. No machines
were installed in the new buildings Lt the plant.
at the time 000 ,workers would enter the gates. There
was not too much work going on at the plant itself then.
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In iTenUary of 1947,
prisoners sent to work on
a housing project
10 miles south of Corky.
In addition risoners,
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Soviet w?Orkerss project was
the construction of three
by 28 feet and was three
apartment houses.
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Each,bUilding measured about 116 feet
aparttents:Consisted Of two and three rooms; some apartments had kitchens. Space
as proVided for tour or five bathrooms on each floor. However, there were no
fixtUrea available for installation. The buildings were constructed of bricks made
of concrete weighing about five pounds each. The workmanship was not good and there
planned to build,0-of these; however terial for 12. These houses
were many faults_ p nroiPot of 0 e and two family helloes. It was
were of precut, wood construction, one story high, Each house had three .rooms and
? st. kitchen;; there were ric baths. The precut material came from Finland as war
reparations.? This housing development was located about three kilometers south of
,the-apartment area mentioned above.
6. On 10 Nay 47, sent to work at a building five kilometers south of
Igunmova known as Assembly Plant 6. The building was a shed-like construction about
200 yards long by 35 yards wide. It had a dirt floor and was very crude. There were
about 50 Soviet workers at the plant, mostly people from the western Ukraine whom
the .Germanhad taken into Germany. The Soviets brought them to Gorky as 'workers.
The work at the plant consisted of welding sheet steelinto open and closed tanks
which -Were sent to Chemical Plant ;c96. The tanks: were very crudely made and all
workera*re inefficient and lazy. There was not much work done,
7. In 4igust of 1947 about two thousand sent to Camp Unit if.5 tOwork at the
Molot*PN P1ant4i,, Altogether there were about four thousand prisoners at the planta
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I heard that between
ware,Soviet slave laborers
three and four hundred thousand workers were
who were more strongly guarded than
employed.. Many
were prisoners of war.
measuring 600 yards
feet widea known
made of the same
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an excavatien for a resevoir
lOng by 70 yards wide
by 20 yaras aeep.
W)-unitf,
huge building about 1,200 feet long by 600
This plant was three stories high and was
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as the Victory Plants
grey concrete brick,
work to assist in installing
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assembly system brought
from Germany. I heard that it was from
the German Opal
?Plant. There were many
German enc:ineers workin7, around. the plant..
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all forbidden to talk.
Ne .automobiles were being made at theplant
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By the -summer of 194
one male north of
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a power station located
Chemical Plant #96,
were 141ed in new con
a lsage ressvoir and also made
concrete ,bricks which
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and around Gorky
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11. Por several,Monthsin early 1949.
Most of the prisoners there were officers of field grade ana above, alone
did ay work. At this came there were thirty MVD officers who worked continu-
ously, interrogating the prisoners.
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LEnclosure A: Sketch of Chemical Plant #96 at Gorky2
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