SOVIET UNION MILITARY - ECONOMIC REPORT 5/6

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June 30, 1943
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Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A00010 FOIAb3a 1-d 0 () 6"9 THIS DOCUMENT MUST NOT BE REMOVED FROM THE SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE RESTRICTED AREA This document contains classified Special Intelligence information within the provisions of Public Law 513 - 81st Congress. Information contained herein referring directly or in- directly to any Special Intelligence activities, regard- less of the classification of the information, may be communicated only to persons officially indoctrinated for Special Intelligence. Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 FOIAb3a Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56S00492A000100060001-5 !" Security Information 35/52/TOPSEC/CIA, D/Z SC No. 04300 Copy No. SOVIET UNION MILITARY-ECONOMIC REPORT Translated from the German Report 5/6 Dated: 30 June 1943 THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITH- IN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE LAWS, TITLE 18, U. S. C., SECTION 793 AND 794. SEE ALSO PUBLIC LAW 513,_ 81ST CONGRESS,._ SECOND SESSION. ITS TRANS- MISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BYLAW./ CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Office of Research and Reports Strategic Division Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 TOP SECRET Security Information Distribution: FOIAb3a Copy Nos. 1 - 38 Internal: Distribution L(4). TOP SECRET Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 TOP SECRET Security Information During the Second World War the German Signal Intelligence Control Center of the Staff of the Chief of Army Signal Service (HNW, LNA) issued a series of reports to show the USSR mili- tary-economic situation as reflected in Russian internal plain language traffic. These reports appeared at short, irregular intervals, usually six per month, for the -3eriod October 1942- March 1945, EiglFgAA U of these reports have been transla- ted and issued by It is planned to issue a complete set of translations of the re- ports, beginning with the most recent anFiQ1 backward, but omitting those already translated by The numbering of the items was added by the translator ls(DJ j3 e Qr& did this only in the last eighteen reports, -inclusive. Since the original material was inRussian, an effort has been made when translating the German to deter- mine the original Russian term wherever possible. This is fa- cilitated by the Russian fondness for abbreviations. In these translations into English the --)rcaable meaning of the abbrevia- tion will be given in parenthesis the first time it occurs in each report- TOP SECRET Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 TOP SECRET Security Information 30 June 1943 The Soviet Union Military-Economic Report 5/6 (Based on domestic radio traffic) Individual- Messages 1. PERSONNEL SITUATION (1) According to a decree of the- Presidium of the Supreme Council (Military- Economic Report 1/6), special personnel of the River Fleet were exempt from mili- tary conscription. According to a decree of 2 June-this also applies to all workers of the transport divisions of the NK for the River Fleet and sovkhozes for specialper- (2) 12.0 workers must be assigned to the shipbuilding and repair yard "Karl Marx" in Go.rkij and 3000 persons to the Steamship Agency in Astrakhanfor repair work, The last report dated 18 June originated shortly after the first attack by Ger- man battle planes on Astrakhan. 2) METAL SUPPLY -(3.) Moscow had to reprimand numerous plants for not fulfilling their delivery obligation of scrap metal. The following had to be delivered among others: Blagoveshchensk 89 tons Krasnoyarsk 242 Kujbyshev 180 Omsk 240 Semipalatinsk 50 The amounts to be delivered did not move for six months. In Omsk and Semipalatinsk it is a question of the six month delivery delay, in Kujbyshev it is a question of a back- log. Krasnoyarsk may fall behind in its deliveries because of transport difficulties, since the above amount was.already procured. (4) The copper rolling mill in Tiflis,. which employs 36 persons, produced 26 tons of copper products in the first ten days of June. On 10 June there were 156 tons of products which were not yet transported. Sanitized - Approved For AaqFPM-RDP56S00492A000100060001-5 Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 TOP SECRET Security Information The following requirements and authorizations were to be established: 1. Raw Mate rial .Requirements Consignee Quantity Type Consignor Remarks (5) Scrap Collection 89 tons _Point (6) (7) Scrap Collection Point (8) (9) (10) Scrap Blagoveshchensk procured and to be delivered by 25 June 2 tons Scrap Erivan In July according to plan 242 tons Scrap Krasnoyarsk Procured and to be delivered by 25 June 180 tons Scrap Kujbyshev To be delivered by 25 June 240 tons Scrap Omsk Half-year delivery according to plan to be fulfilled by 25 June 50 tons Scrap Semipalatinsk Half-year delivery (11) Tiflis, NK for 7 tons Steel Moscow, Store-- .Local. Industry house of the NK for Metal Sales (12_) Tiflis, Store- 11. 5 tons Steel house of the NK for Metal Sales according to plan to be fulfilled by 25 June U. Half-finished Goods Authorizations Consignee Quantity Type Consignor - Remarks- (13) Erivan "Sovpren" 18 tons Sheet To be received (14) Molotov 20 tons metal Sheet Ilij sk in first ten days of July --- (15) Kirovakan, 60 tons met al Roofing Krasnovodsk --- Chemical Plant h t (16) Tiflis, NK for 8 tons s ee Sheet Moscow, Storehouse --- Local Industry metal of NK for Metal Sales (17) Tiflis, NK for 5 tons Hoop --- ---- (18) Local Industry Tiflis, NK for 6. 5 tons iron Sheet (19) Metal Sales Transcaucasian metal Roofing --- Stored in Krasno- Railway Line 18 tons sheet vodsk Harbor O1 S ECR TA-RDP56S00492A000100060001-5 Sanitized -Approved For a ease Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 TOP SECRET Security Information 3. )TIMBER SUPPLY- - (20) The NKRF Offices in Surazhevka, Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Blagoveshchensk, Ulan Ude and Kire-nsk are reminded to carry out under all conditions the. transport of timber in accordance with the plan established for June. (21) The following is established for timber procurement office-s:-- Office -Amount to be procured Amount to be trans orted- -R k p emar s Lumber Firewood Lumber Firewood (Board meters) Gorodets 10000 10000 -9000 For 1943 Raznezhe 25000 10000 25000 10000 according to plan Svenigovo 4000 1000 2000 5000 Orel...(Moscow Oblast') 24000 10000 20000 10000 Ufa 2000 36000 5000 28000 Kujbyshev 1000 22000 1000 33000 Krasnoyarsk 17000 70000 25000 85p0Q The following authorizations were noted: Enterprise Quantity Type of Wood Consignor Remarks (22) Lower Irtysh 75000 cbm Floated wood Chief Directo- For 2nd quarter (23) Steamship Agency Oblast' Water- 25000 Floated wood rate of Timber Supply, Omsk (24) ways Directorate, Irtysh West Siberian 6000 Floated wood Chief Directo- For shipbuilding Steamship Agency rate of Timber Supply, Barnaul (25) Floated wood Chief Directorate For 2nd quarter of Timber Supply, Novosibirsk (26) Oblast' Directo- 4000 Floated wood 11 11 (27) rate of Ob Water- ways Shipyard in 28000 Floated wood Chief Directorate (28) Tavda Baikal-Selenga 6000 Firewood of Timber Supply, Sverdlovsk In 2nd quarter (29) Steamship Agency Khabarovsk 5000 Firewood (30) Ship Repair 1000 Sawn timber (31) Yard, Saratov Lower Volga 400 Round timber For the Recon- Steamship Agency 216 Sawn timber struction Directo- rate Sanitized - Approved For Release : bTA-RDP56S00492A000100060001-5 Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 TOP SECRET Security Information Enterprise Quantity Type of Wood Consignor Remarks (32) Armenia 10000 cbm Floated wood Georgia, Tiflis Mining (33) Tkvibuli 16 carloads Mine long Kujbyshev timber Mine- Timber (34) Kvesani 16 Georgian CD for Timber Supply (35) Borshoni 5 (36) Tiflis 3 Turnover in Astrakhan 4), TRANSPORT SITUATION (37) The transport situation in the Caucasus seems to be comparatively satisfactory. (38) The Transcaucasian Railway Line "Beriya" reports the shipment of 2783 car- loads of imported goods in May as opposed to 1050 carloads in April. (39) In May 149 cars were authorized and made available for the Iron Industry in Tiflis. However, only 127 cars have been used. (40) Greater tobacco shipments are being carried out from and in Georgia. The CD for Tobacco in Tiflis requires 140 cars for transport in July. The remainder of tobacco for the .north amounted to 1400 tons on 1 June. -According to the July plan 220 cars have been established for the north. In addition, 300 cars are scheduled for military deliveries. (41) The transport situation in the River Fleet is rather strained. The transport plans of the individual steamship agencies were not completely fulfilled in May and the first half of June. The fulfillment of the June plan is required by the end of June. (42) In Omsk the Steamship Agency likewise only fulfilled in part the technical plan in May: shipments 57%a unloadings 93 tow service 77 use of tractive power 85 tonnage-use 88 The result is. still unfavorable in June. Severe punishments are threatened in the event the June plan is not fulfilled. (43) 200 cars with coal arrived in Stalingrad. The coal is to be transported further - 7 - Sanitized - Approved For ]eleal~ ElA-RDP56S00492A000100060001-5 Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 TOP SECRET Security Information by ship. However, there are no ships on land. The storage places are already overfilled. _Additional shipments are arriving uninterruptedly. (44) The following collection of ships was expected in Astrakhan: To arrive 29 June The captains are ordered to arrive in Astrakhan on time. Akademik Pavlov Sheksna Vizantiya Zyrdarya Argentina Zosh Stepan Razin Shilka Akataj Anadyr Sundavik Rashila Aviostroj Viktoriya Kura Plant 20 Krasnyj Shakhter Ves Maya (?) Ladoga Larin Laran 5) IDENTITY OF PLANTS (45) Plant Location Remarks Plant #520 Motor Plant Plant "Krasnyj Don" Plant #34 Plant # 112 Plant #84 Plant #245 Plant "Avtosis" Plant "Avtosis" Cloth Factory Novosibirsk Tyumen Rostov/Don Chelyabinsk Chkalov Ulyanovsk Shadrinsk Erivan Under NK for Tank Industry Reported several times without location Located in Baku 6) CIVIL. AIR FLEET (46) The decree mentioned in Military-Economic Report 5/5 concerning reporting on members of the Civil Air Fleet who are linguists is repeated in a message of 17 May. This TOP SECR Sanitized - Approved For Release :A-RDP56S00492A000100060001-5 Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 TOP SECRET Security Information notice in connection with the appearance of "an international line" can, as already pointed out in Military-Economic Report 1/6, ensure greater cooperation with foreign organizations (Anglo.-American). This supposition is probable in view of the fact that more and more frequent deliveries of foreign goods have been noted. For example, we observed 20 cases of cyclone-motors (USA- ?) ready for shipment to the "Central Flight Camp of the Civil Air Fleet" (Kazan?) in Murmansk (.47) The Civil Air Fleet participated very vigorously in the Second War Loan. There were subscriptions of 8 months' wages. One office subscribed 244. 5% of its monthly wages. In many other places a full month's salary was subscribed. Very great value is attached .to a speedy execution of the subscriptions. (48) Units of the Civil Air Fleet are--apparently suffering from a shortage of person- nel. During the last period more and more messages were signed by women. For example, in Tashkent by Ragulina (30 May), in Baku by Moiseevka (31 May), in Stalingrad by Peskina (30 May). (49) Very significant is the message concerning the placing of women training personnel with the 9th Flight Regiment and the 43rd Flight Squadron. (50) At times .a serious shortage of fuel is noticeable in the Civil Air Fleet. This can presumably be traced to difficulties in transportation or organization. (51) The following units were Southwestern. Group Group Stukan Enisej Flight Group Special Flight. Division of the Z. L. 46th Flight Group 15th Squadron 43rd Squadron A Reserve Regiment (52) Recently Confirmed recently identified: first time mentioned first time mentioned first time mentioned first time mentioned first time mentioned first time mentioned first time mentioned first time mentioned Group Pantelli in Tashkent Special Western Flight Group 2nd Flight Regiment Group Chankotadze addressField Post #10301. Krasnoyarsk Zabolotnaya (not located) Petropavlovsk Women are being assigned as instructors Sanitized - Approved For'RXId'e~R'IA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP56SO0492A000100060001-5 TOP SECRET Security Information (53) The following training units were identified: 17th Training Squadron mentioned for the first time "Uto" Training Division (?) in Sverdlovsk Training squadrons in Baku mentioned for the first time. Awaiting confirmation. (54) The following workshops and aviation repair bases were confirmed: _ARM 35 ARB 405 in Alma Ata Additional Identifications (55) Chief of the Health Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet in Moscow is Kolarov. It consists of a separate line, Tashkent-Turkestan-Dzhusaly-Chelkar.Aktyubinsk, which is subordinate to the Uzbek Directorate..: (56) The sending of passengers from Novosibirsk to Moscow via Sverdlovsk is to be discontinued, since a great deal of freight which must be urgently transported has piled (57) The medicine urgently needed for the Volkhov Front is to be sent to Tikhvin by plane. TOP SEC' T Sanitized - Approved For Release :IA-RDP56S00492A000100060001-5