COMPILATION OF INFORMATION ON AMMUNITION DEPOT NEAR KLEIN-ENTERSDORF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900100004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Pvr~u large underground storagye depots are available in the Klein_I:utersdorf
(" 51/?i 75') area. During the last war, these two installations allegedly
ho-xseC plants 3ns-aLzed in the production of jot fighter aircraft..
Tha flothenstciner Olsen depot is located about 1,5 km south of the village
of I'ot,henstein, in the western side of the `3aale River valley. Information
on the s depot was transmitted previously. * According to a sketch glade in
1. ?ta the installation has 12 ;-aileries with entrances 2 peters wide and 2.,ri
ne.tors high. The depot itself is about 4, 000 meters Long and consists of a
hetw&k of galleries grid natural open spaces,, The galleries extant 500 to
600 meters into the side of the h~.11,. There are 20 branch shafts, each of
there ! rretors wide and tl meters dc!on. alsc available. At ti-It end of the war,
the i}~stallzation -,?ras half conpleted.n The rock over the galleries and natural,
open spaces is believed to be .;0 to 00 meters -hick. This -makes the installa-
tion rtb: olutely invulnerable to air attacks. .Post war information on the in-
stallation is not available?
T} ere is another underground instA.ilation iruaediatoly north of ()rosswii;utersdorf,
vfi-Aeh is also built into the rocks in the side of a hill on the western bank
of the Oaale 11-iver The installation- is approximately 1,000 meters long. raxaet
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MIM tale installation has 18 galler. ies, each of them 250 motors long
and 3.5 rioters ? ido. The installation allegedly, has only one entrance, which
is continuously guarded by VP men.. lo-;,evor, it, is believed that there are more
?e1 trances, but source could not see them because they were well camouflaged.
thin two 'installations
were filled with ammunition in 1949, The strictest security measures were taken
by the Soviets on this occasion,, and part of t ze arrmunition arrived at nights
Further details are not available, In 'eptomber 1950, the Rothensteiner Pilsen
depot was, allegedly, evacuated by the Soviets and turned over to Carman ad-
ministration.
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