METEROLOGICAL MEASURING INSTRUMENTS PLANT IN RIGA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R010500040001-9
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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USSR (Latvian SSR)
Meteorological Measuring Instruments Plant
in Riga
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1. Location: eiee
2. Layout:
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4. ..:anagement: Latvian encineer
5, -21ant history: The plant is housed in old bu11d1ngs
-which were partly damaged during the var. The re-
construction was started in the. _iu-Tier of 1945 and
? production began in dune 1946. In .eugust 1946 tha
plant was awarded the "hed Ohallenge lime" in re-
cognition of speedy construction work.
. The plant is equipped with maohinery dismantled at
the Lichuetz l'irn in Lerlin-L,teclitz.
ork force: edghty Latvians and about. sixty 117s _
working one shift.
Production: ilygrometers, anemometers radio sondes
and electrical armatures.
The produced instruments were trucked to the ida
railroad sttion from where they were shipped to
Abscov.
10. "?he production ries eentrolled by eoviet ?J.r
officers0 ene of then said that Cirman engineers
were elployed in the plant.
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11. :;tatus of the plant: A well-run and first class
precision-mechanical plant.
12. Power was supplied from the Riga power plant.
neld Comment:
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During the war there was
a plant with this number in Aoscow which manu-
factured armatures for hydraulic and fuel pump
installations. Lilo information on this plant
since the war.
Annex, sketch on ditto: Layout ketch of the
Aeteorolpgical Equipment Plant in Riga.
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1 -Five-story 50x20x20-meter brick building
Ground floor: Lathe department
Second floors kklechanical department
Third floor: Assembly
Fourth floor: Llectric shops and offices
Firth floor: Armatures department and
storage facilities
2 LcgAsmith shop ?
-4 Boiler house equipped with two coal-burning flue_ boilers,
a 15x10x15 brick building with a 25-meter brick smokestack
4 Brick building 80x15x15 meters
a Production of trial balloons used for meteorological measuments
b Production of sheet metal boxes used for the packing of instruments.
o Storage facilities for spare parts
5 Prospective site for garages
6 and 7 Workshops of the Lutnergo in Riga
a Railroad overpass of the higaA)uanaburg line
9 Riga main railroad station,
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