SOVIET DEPORTATION OF JUNKERS' EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300040008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 21, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY G thaalan erne
S$ ETt Soviet E rtation of Junkers' Employees
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DtST. 21 Janusry 1947
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At the and of S?temsbor 1946, 150 specialist workers from Junkers, Dessau, were
ree ved, complete with their tools. Their destiuation bias said to I= Fftipberg.
2? About the and of September 1946, , 40 enrp1oyws of the Ju nkerss, D seaau, fires
.(engineers, foremen, specialist workers) flew to Moscow, in the neighborhood of
which th y re litr1ng in barracks. They are employed there in building test-beds
for the testing of Diesel engines built in Dees u. These engines are only suitAble
for freight planes or lorries. The head of this department is Dipi. Ing. Gerlaeb
( who went to Russia with the moo transport of 22.. October 1946). His chief
assistants t 011p2.. lug. JakoI and 14. Beck.
On 7 October 1946, 38 specialist workers left Junkers, Dessau, by air for
Xnigeberg. They are said to comprise 'the entire testing team. In future, only
preliminary testing is to be done at Dessau.
During the night of 22/23 October 1946, at about 4 a.za., the dweel.lit of
some 700 Junkers, ?Dessssau ; employees were entered by armed Russians who ordered the
employees and their families to pack their belongings immediately and leave for Russia-
The Russians simultaneously took over the postal. telegraph end telephone offic ess, to
prevent the .fore-?warning of others. Similarly, railways were closed ands during
the day, not even the shortest journeys were allowed without a permit. Included in
this move was the entire airecrew ent? with the exception of two men9 one
too old and the other too young. Wives and children were forced to leave. Itch
family was alloted one truck for their furniture and rations for f ossaur weeks. These
removals would, it said, be completed by l November 1946.
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