V-2 LAUNCHING SITE AT KOLOBRZEG

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010500380008-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NOM
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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V-2 Launching Site at Kolobrzeg,
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1. In January 1950 the western part of the city of Kolobrzeg (Kolberg - 055fD[14)
was under the administration of the Poles and the eastern part mostly under
that of the-Russians. The whole district of Maikuhle was fenced off with
barbed wire and the Poles were forbidden entrance. There is a camp Kolobrzeg
which is very strongly guarded by Russian soldiers and has watch towers at
each of the four corners. In January 1950 there were about 150 Germans
working there, of which about 30 were skilled workmen and apprentices (fitters,
welders{ mechanics? plumbers, underground workers, and a great many iron
workers). The work was under the direction of an engineer nailed Gavrilov (fnu)
(phonetic), said to be Russian; he spoke fluent German.
2. In the district of Maikuhle a large steel turntable (DREHKRANZ)was set up.
This turntable, on which was placed a kind of carriage (LI`LFETTI) which
carried a large structure about five to six meters high, was approximately
35 m. in diameter, The carriage was secured to the turntable so that it
was possible to rotate both the turntable'and the carriage by means of a
revolving installation (DREHVORRICHTUNG). The carriage had about six frontal
pins (STIRNZAPFI.N). Two towers of a kind of steel scaffolding approximately
30 meters high were erected on top of the carriage, apparently to reinforce
the carriage.
In about December 1950, a pipe measuring approximately 25-28 meters long
and looking more like a torpedo tube than a gun barrel, arrived by rail;
it was about 1 meter in diameter. It was said to be a tube for V-2 launching
installation copied by the Russians under German directions.* At the end
of December 1950 Gavrilov also said that it was the same thing that the
Germans had called V-2 in Peenemunde. The tube was brought by Russian soldiers
by means of several cranes. The Maikuhle cemetery in Kolobrzeg was levelled
for the construction of this installation and isolated by barbed wire;
Russian sentries with M.G.'s were posted on the ground and in watch towers.
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I Comments There have been several unconfirmed reports of V-2
launching sites on the Baltic a specified a V-2 installa-
tion at-Kolobrzeg among other locations without urther details*'
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appear to confirm certain facets of this report,
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