MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001400500003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CIA.3SIFICATION SHCURITY I FoRMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
II FOR IATiON REPORT
COUNTRY rant Germany
SUBJECT Miscellano' us ':oonoiaic information
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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THIS IL U1rVALUi TnD INF0RI'I:iTION
the i'ollat int atounts
of liquid fuels were being produced cam. 1 a e eitz plant as of
1 ':arch 19513:
400 metric tons of gasoline
:i00 Metric tons of Diesel fuel
2, 'hs for: WASAG Plwutl in Slssni Kreie Torrauti>~ aui,nosed to be rebuilt in 1953i<
rVj
tablish there.
b
t
e es
o
alleged that a branch' of .g -t,olfen is
lusruestungswerkeuT=ordhausen are allegedly producing Farts for V-weap ons. L J/~ I
1, It has been reported that air,,lane parts are being produced in individual
derartraents of the 01y: is firm in ,.rfurt.
5 The following table lists coal shipments from 'ast ^ermany to ..tralsund
!:o.. of Tons of
:.ate
Cars
Cargo_
Axles
Stralsund Harbor
7
1?ebruar,i
195.3
10
198
20
.arnenuende Harbor
C
ebrunr
19513
13
214
26
arnemuende Harbor
9 :'ebrivir-j 1953 13
245
26
u, By 1 April 19:3 the Y.o^iLinat ;w enhain will dismiss 150 cr.rloyees,
esrec:..ally invalids, sick per: ona, and those who are politically "in-
d;ifferent." The purge of the plant is aller e41;~ to affect X00 employees
only employee. ::ho are completely capable of working are to be left
after the rurgo action,
7, V1 B Fohlensaeure :.ngcls.'orf has been analga:noted with VLB Sauerstoff-..erk
':ol31'ersdorf near Leipzig. The two firms now employ about 160 persons,
The firms deliver oxygen and carbon dioxide to IG-Farben, .olfen, and
varict;.4 breweries. It is riannud to close down the two rlants s:lould coke
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delivorics fa l to materialize a Production % o?uld then be taken over,
by Eombinat Boehlen?
fL Vi.B elletoff Trebsen/Saxon is rresently rroducinr cellulose, which
is shipped to ID uen, :'.ie a, and =.cicryenau far further rroceswin o i)a;ily
I-roduction of the rlant waountt to about 12 railroad cars of cellulose.
The T.1ant cmrjoys 1,200 workers; it has three trucks acid three automo-
biles in ite motor Tool.
"s of late January 1953 there were acrroximately 10,700 tractors in
,art "er many, By 1955 the number of tractors is to be increased to
342000G P 1 i;nst Ccr:ran tractor: are distributed among' 587 tractor
lending stations (::TS). In 1952 each tractor -worked an average- of
800 hours,, Resronsibility for tractors lies with the Ydn'istry of
A[-ricuiture and rorestry, i.al c1:artmcnt V. ITS.
Cvm enta :`:estfaelisch-Aaba+altisobe Sprengstoff A.G.
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