SDAG WISMUT: OBJECT 96

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01540R006400090009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
SECRET
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COUNTRY East Germany
REPORT
SUBJECT SDAG Wismut 3 Object 96 DATE DISTR.
28 February 1955
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DATE OF INFO.
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1. In early October 1954,
the mining or radioactive coal in the so-called Schachtkombina50xi -HUM
of the Object would cease, and the mines would be turned over for exploitation
by the Germans as nationalized concerns (VEB9s). On the other hand,
special
UVOUb were to os installea in tne ore concentration plant of the Object at 50X1-HUM
Dresden-Gittersee? capable of reducing the radioactive coal to ash without
pollution of the atmosphere, as was the case previously.
2. The new chief of Object 96, Balanl, shows no interest in the mining activitie-
of Object 96, which he leaves in the hands of the chief of Schacht 269. E.K. 50X1-HUM
Kuznetsov.
BaLlan has had long experience of ore concentration in East
Germany in one of the other lismut Objects.
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3. All surplus mining equipment and additional contingents of miners from Object
96 have been transferred to Object 6 at Auerbach.
they were, mining
richer and thicker seams of uranium ore than they had over encountered before.
They were earning bonuses for ore recovered which were larger than their basic
salaries, and all bonuses were being paid immediately after the ore had been
brougtn to the surface and assayed. this 50X1-HUM
practice had been introduced by the Russians to expedite the exploitation of
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