EXTENSION OF THE HENNIGSDORF IRON AND STEEL WORKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001600520007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPO
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CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY East Germany DATE DISTR. 314 August 1953
SUBJECT Extension of the Hennigsdorf Iron and Steel Works NO. OF PAGES 1.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORHATIOE AFFE071887HN HATIDNALDBPENSB
OF THE UUITCD STATES. WITHIN THE UEAH1T40 OF TITLE 16
SECTIONS 7113
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AND 78.. OP THE U. S. CODE. AS MENDED. ITS TRAHSUISSION OR REVEL-
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The ingot rolling plant of the Iron and Steel Works and Rolling Vill
in fiennigsdorf is planned to be extended 180 meters during the first
6 months of 1953. Four annealing furnaces are scheduled to be
erected in a shed attached to the plant. The order was given
by the State Planning Gorrnission in Ea.ot Berlin on 24 January
1953
25X1 L_~]Coaanent. The Hennigsdorf Plant is scheduled to have a capacity
of 220,000 tons of raw steel and 200,000 tons of rolled products in 1956.
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TOPIC General '113 1 itary Information
DATE OF CONTENT
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DATE OBTAINED-
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-PLACE OBTAINED Germany//,unich
13 to 21 April 1953
1E PREPARED, 15 May 1953
-ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
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1. From 18 to 20 April 1953, at night, units from the Flak Kaserne in
Leipzig- ich:oenau, according to a Soviet soldiers, were loaded at the
Rueckiarsdorf railroad station for Oh-rdruf. . On 7 May, a rear detail
of 20 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets was noticed in the
installation:>1
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At 7 p.m. on 21 April, a troop train carrying 3 guns of about 1OO.mm
to 120-nn; 6 tank trucks; 1 caterpillar tractor., 10 trucks; and personnel
passed through the Koethen railroad station and proceeded toward ssau
or I'at?deburg
25X1 1.1 bo e ? . With the ele -ents of the Ith Gds :tecz Div apparently
leaving for Koonigsbrueek prior to 17 April, it is reason for believing
that the 94th, FSI, Regt (UE) of the XXIX Gds :'tz Rifle Corps was transferred
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the 43d Gds A.rr,y Arty Brig of the Eighth Gds Arry which, according to
records on transportation, went to A.? tengrabow.
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