SPARE PARTS FOR W 2/300 TYPE DIESEL ENGINES FOR URALMASH BORING INSTALLATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002900520010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY ' East Germany
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This Document 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 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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9 December 1953
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1. In late 1952, about 16 W 2/300 type Diesel enginesxwhich had been delivered
to the State Geological Commission (SGK) from the USSR for Uralmash petr-o)euln
boring installations could no longer be used because of lack of spare parts.
Other boring installations were also expected to discontinue operating Sirtoe,
in spite of acknowledged priority, only a very small quantity of most ur:yelitly
needed spare parts had been delivered from the USSR. Source learned, for
example, that the deliverv of 4 complete engines which had been ordered in
the USSR ''mss- not to be ..IIas1 e:" until the fourth quarter of 1953. All.
efforts by the SGK to obtain suitable spare parts from motor works in E~lst
Germany had failed because of shortages of steel. in certain qualities.
2. The SGK chairman who had filed an application with the Soviet motor transport
headquarters in Karlshorst succeeded in obtaining from Soviet stocks part of
the spare parts required, since the W 2/300 type engines were also used in
Soviet T 34 tanks.
3.- On 11 May 1.953, the possibility of making available to the SGK spares fror
KVP stocks was discussed at a conference held at the office of Koppatsch
(fnu). who, source believed, was chief of the motor transport department
of the Ministry of the Interior. It was decided to release immediately two
complete W 2/300 type engines on loan and, in about 4 weeks, 2 others to
eliminate the bottlenecks in the field of petroleum production.
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Spare Parts for W 2/300 Type
Diesel Engines for Uralmash
Boring Installations
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