REPATRIATION OF GERMAN SCIENTISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700320008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
USSR/East Germany
SUBJECT Repatriation, of German Scientists
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Suctions 783 and 794, of the U.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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DATE DISTR. 2 September 1953
NO. OF PAGES .6
REQUIREMENT NO. RD 25X1
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The first transport from Gorodomlya Island to Germany left in January 1952.
At that time the Soviet authorities promised that other transports would
follow shortly.
2. On ,26 May anti .29 May the times of departure of the second and the transports
were announced. The. second transport was.to leave the island on 10 June, the
third., on .13 .June. A ,courier from the -Ministry of Armaments arrived on the
island by,plane With the orders for the transports. When the director received
the order). he called a ,meeting, of the sector leaders, both Soviet and German,
at which were present the official entrusted with the welfare of the Germans,
Xlemenkov, and the chief of the First Department, thutoryanskiy. The director
gave the German sector leaders the. 'names of German.specialists included in .;s :
the transport.
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The German sector readers were charged with telling the men in their sectors
that they were included in the list, and that they should be present at a
tar meeting in the clubhouse on the next day.
German specialists not included in the list were urged not to come
to the meeting.
4. After checking the names, the director
included the following points:
a. The work was to continue until the day of departure.
The director relented on this point and allowed work to stop
three days before departure.
b. All classified material had to be handed into the First Department,
which had sign-out slips for it and could hold each person. responsible for
the material charged to him.
c. Everything made of material belonging to the institute had to be re-
turned. This demand indicated that the director was aware that
materials like wood.or metals had at times been taken.by passersby and
converted,into objects for personal use.
d.
all
furniture had to be crated
the German specialists were responsible for the crating,
and Soviet help could be used. only as it was available. Y he
material for the crating was given the Germans free of cost. Many
families had had their belongings packed for a long time anticipating
a much earlier departure from the island.
e. Every crated piece was to have a plywood sign nailed on it, indicating the
name of the owner, the place from which it was shipped (Oetashkov), and
the place to which it. as shipped. (Berlin). Each piece had to be numbered.
f. All books and printed material had to be listed and inspected, The
technical literature was inspected by the sector leaders of the depart-
ments most closely related to the contents of the books. Books on
construction, for instance, were inspected by Kiselgv. While the
checks of the sector leaders were going:on,: the owners of the books had
to be present.
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material. was checked and could be taken along if .t passed the control.
The lists of the written and printed materials were sent to Brest 25X1
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Litovsk, where a final check was to be made.
All photographs had to be inspected. Any that showed buildings were 25X1
taken away. Even photographs .of Nilkloster, on the north ahore'c-f Lake S li cry
iaet~e coht'iec ted
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