WARNOW-WERFT, WARNEMUENDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002900520002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2003/08/06 : CIA-RDP80-00810A002940520002-1
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
East Germany
W,rnow-Werft, Warnemuende
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This Documen$contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its trandnisslon or revs 'afton 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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THE SOURCE EVALUATIdI); IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
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1. The 195+ production plan for the Warnow-Werft was fixed as follows:
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Type of Vessels
Baikal-type river passenger ships
10,600-GRT cargo vessels
3,600-GRT cargo vessels
6,000-GRT coal and ore carrier
TORN DOLGORUKY under repair
ADMLRAL I 11OW under repair
2,500-tons floating dock
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Percentage of State of Cletion
100
The percentage of completion had
npt been fixed
Percentage of completion not
yet-fixed
8
937
855
2. On 23 'September 1953, fire broke out aboard the B lIKAL,arivver, :passenger ship which
bad been launched on 25 July 1953. There Was o4.y little damage. The cause of the fire.
was not determined. The target date for the Bt KAL had probably to be postponed, f
as a large number of the 480,000 rivets needed proved unsuitable.
3. The Warnow shipyard received orders to hire additional 500 shipyard workers to
meet the target date of the completion of SOVIETSKE SOYUZ. Source believed
that the employment of these additional workers was also the result of go-slaw
tactics. After the SID Central-Committee had orderdd that clerical workers be
retr.:Lndd. Tot production work by 15 October 1953, 9,200 workers including 37..
percent clerical workers were employed at the Warnow shipyard in Warnemuende in
September 1953..
k. All functionaries and key employees of the shipyard were required to stand
night watch aboard ships after Ulbricht's list speech on Western agents and
sabotage.
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