EVACUATION OF SPECIALISTS FROM THE ZENTRALWERKE IN SOEMMERDA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200510006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 13, 1947
• Content Type: IR

Approved For Release 1999/0/7CIA-RDP82-00457R00 000-y
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTEL11GENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Ger urjy/ ussian Zone
Evacuation of Specialists from the Zentralwerke In
Soeerda
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On 21 October, 40 - 50 Germ n engineers and five technicians of the Zentralwerk
in Sfterda (Rkeinmetall-Romig plant) received written notice of their transfer
to Moscow. Their apartments were watched by the MIVD, 22 October, the men were
sent off; they were allowed to take their families along, as well as their kitchen
and bedroom furniture and household furnishin , They were taken by truck to the
railroad siding of the Zentrrelwerke, s-@, to freight cars. A few secretaries were
also made to accompany the transport.
2. The workers have been adversely affected by these happenings with the result that
their performance has slowed down considerably. the number of release requests in
increasin ; some of them are. being accepted. ')Inca the middle of October, all
furls ?; hs for workers and employees of the Ze rai? rke have been cancelled.
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On 22 October, J,,.a, on the day of the deportation of engineers and technicians, one
company of Russian soldiers was stationed In the western part of the factory
(Zeppel.inbal ie) .
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elm, loaded with machines from hail. 4400, left f
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fifty meters west of the Zeppelinhslle in a similar building; it is 12 meters wide,
4 met-ere high, and 100 meters long. This shop is entirely filled with parts
Ze .entelle) for the A4. For the past few days, one of the dismantled former work-
shops contai.rcd55 parts, resembling rotary a saratus (Drehgestellartige Stficke).
This shop also contains 300 boxes with half-finished parts for the 5Asskania- Rudder-
Machine,s'o. For a number of days,p 60 tanks elded ' ?ilublechys (aluminum plates) have
been lying around on the factory grounds. These tanks have a length of about 250
cm. and a diameter of 140 sett., with an axial tubing of 20 cm which apparently serves
as transit for the steering connections. There are also 10 tail pieces of the A-Li
the last third of these is w thou control surfaces (Lei.twerk) but has adjoining
piece.- (Ansate).
6, In the buildings 4216 and 4200, which are guarded, work is progressing in the
otZellenbauff.
In building /+227, some devices are being built for a container to be lade of
s'AlublecI4 as well. as a mat of 6--mater length made of a steel' pipe 15 (mm?) in
diameter, equipped with fittings of steel plate.
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