EAST GERMAN ALLOCATION OF FUEL AND LUBRICATING OIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000100190004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 27, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION 6CP T
SE(;ITRTTY UiFOY ;ATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION ,REPORT
COUNTRY mast Germany
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
t'ATE OF
Eat German Allocation of Fuel and Lubricating
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CD NO.
DATE DISTR, 27 February 1953
NO.OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. The alloc?'?ion of fuel and lubricating oil to the Soviet Army is not made
by German 4,ffices but is directly requested from the SAC plants by Soviet
Iieadquartcy in Karishorst. the allocation of fuel
and lubric!.tinC oat to the Soviet Air Force is r, de in the some way.
Neither th na ,->~:. of the offic a -in-char a nor that of the agency making
requests off` SAC plants is knar Among German personnel,, only
Department Chief Preiss (fnu) of the Chief Department for f'cterial Supply is
cognizant of the Soviet authority issuing the order,
3. The occupat!on army, which submits its allocations through the SAC, Central
Administrat_ on only, is mainly supplied by the SAG plants. The SAG plants
supply orly lar?re depots; individual units are not directly supplied by them.
1:. The quotas required for the Volkspolizei are fulfilled by the Deutsche Han-
delszentrale Kraftstoffe and *9.neraloele (PT11"K71)(German Trade Center for
Fuel and ?`iri(ral Oils)only.
that both the DH%KT" and the Derunapht participate,
however
ertain
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the DIZIT serving larf;er depots to a greater extent than the Derunapht.
~.. The Vain Department for ? aterial Supply on S# ii e? mstrasse, in the center
of Berlin, :U, the Past German government agency which can request and build
up such planned and state reserves.
7. According to nformation the shortage
of Diesel and v.nrburetor fuel has been caused by he intensified stockpiling
policy of the ,oviet Army and the Volkspolizei. Since August 1952, this
shortage has not increased.'
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CmzrierJ , The inforr.ation in ParaLraph 1 conct:rninr direct control
by the 'Soviet I osdquarters in IK'arishorst of the fuel. and lubricant supply
to the Soviet Arr r)conrir,-,a earlier inf~ atione The Dfl .K .' and the
Derunapht sup,,1:;- fue? and lubricants to AC an eeonorny, the Sr:C= plants,
the -.isrut Corporation a:id the a -encies of the SCC, but not to the Soviet
Ar ry. he statc:-cnt~ that intensified stockpiling of the Soviet
Ar:7y a.r:d"',he a'olc~s7olizei Is resn)u_.si. I;1e f ,, or the fuel s tl_orta`e s which
developed. ir. 19-52, is incorrect. his fuel shorn, ,e . as prop bly
caused the in"L;crsi;''icoc mechanization of the Voll:spolizei and the resulting
hidl or fuel re =wire: ,eats.
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