THE ZAFT BUILDING, BERLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005100760007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Research and Tech
strasse 80-82. T
Koepenickerstrass
and by Rungestra
Koellnisehen Par
b
DATE D4 . ~9 October 195+
NO. OF PAMS 8 7
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LIVED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS U ALUATE'D INFORMATM
(ZAF5 is located in Berlin
side of?the six-story buil
building is in a square
west. The ZAFT building lWoeated just south
are.approximately in the center of the square,
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now in ruins, and separated from this area by a wall about ten meters
1_1 L me. +,.o ..,.a+: of the 7AFT building, still' inside the square, is
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located-is the Koellniscier Park.` The nearest U-Bahn station
one on the intersection of Koepenickerstrasse and Neanderstra
east of7.,FT_(See Attachment IS'vv
+h~ cite of Bau-Union, Berlin. Northwest of the square in
8 t~h e
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2.. The ZAFT bu' on t~lte first ficoT
(At~aehnt annel entrance (2)
of the buil penickerstrasse.
gle 6 es, located "'rther east on
There is an
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Koepenickerstrasse, which leads directly into the courtyard. T
personnel entrance leads into a hall which, in its southwest corner,
has a telephone booth (4). The hall extends in an aisle with an exit (5)
to the courtyard. South of this aisle is the receptionist's office (6)
and a 'room (7) for the receptionist. Another exit (8) leads into a
second (9) adjacent to the first one, with a staircase leading into
the upper stories. Another exit (10) leads from there into the courtyard.
The staircase is bordered on the south by the visitors room (11) and on
the north by the guard room (12) of the Volkspolizei guard. Visitors who
enter the building through the ma} entrance and have passed the?recep-
tionist's office will be checked credentials at entrance 8 before
being let into the visitors' room 11). ' The northern part of the building
is almost entirely occupied by two big halls: one hall (13) serves as
the "Gr?at Cultural Hall" and at the same time as a dining mess; another
hall (14) serves as the "Small Cultural Hall". Hall 13 is separated from
the courtyard by an aisle with an exit (15) into the courtyard. Another
staircase leads upstairs from this aisle. The southeast wing of the first
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The second floor of the ZAFT'building is occupied by offices of Wissen-
schaftliche-Technische Zusammenarbeit (WTZ) (Scientific Technical Co-
operation), which no longer is a Department of ZAFT but is directly under
the State Planning Commission, and by offices for all three organizations
located in the ZAFT building, i.e. in addition to WTZ offices proper, by
offices serving ;;'TZ as well as ZAFT and the Department for Standards and
(quality Control (Normen-und Guetesicherung), which also was separated
from ZAFT and put under the direct control of the State Planning Com-
mission. The following is the distribution of offices on the second
floor of the building (see Attae xnnt 3):
1 and 2:- WTZ Laendereaferat Rumania
3, 4 and 5: Visitors' rooms for all three organizations
16qnd 7: WTZ Laenderreferat Poland
$:; Water closet
Light and vent 1htVon shaft
10: Room for clea women
11: Post Offiee for all three organizations
12: Staircase
13: Visitors' room for all three organizations
14: Storage room
15: !'eater closet
16: Light and ventilation shaft
17: WTZ writing room
18: unknown :
19 and 20: Staircases
21: Teletype office for all organizations
22: WTZ Personnel Department
23: Telephone center for all organizations
24:
Staircase
25
and 26:
Water closets
27
and 28:
.7TZ Personnel Department
29:
Office of the head of WTZ
30: Anteroom of 29
31, 32 and 33: WTZ La
34: WTZ Laenderrefera
35: WTZ Laenderrefera
The third floor of the building is occupied by Hauptabteilung I (Main
Department I) and by the offices of the Department for Classified Matters.
Following is the distribution of offices on the third floor (see At-
tachment 4):
1: Office of the head of the Department of Agricultural Sciences
2: Anteroom to 1
3i
4
5
9: Light and ventilation s
10: Room for cleaning women
11: Fundamental Research
exit (17) leads into the courtyard. The northeastern part of the first
floor isftaken up by garages (18), with an entrance (19) leading into
them from the courtyard.
12:.
13
14:C`
15: Water close
16: Li ht and ticii. sl .ft
17:
19
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 32: Office of the Legal Advisor
33: Anteroom to 34
34: Office of the head of the Department of Chemistry
35: Anteroom to 36
36: Office of the head of Hauptabteilung I.
5. The fourth
Department
offices in
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29: Office of the head of th
30: Office of the head of ZA
31:, Anteroom to 30
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this
1, 2 and 3:
11: G
12 and
10: Room for
pied by offices of.the ZAFT Main
olloviing is the distribution of
of the Cadre Department
9: Light and ventilation sh
4: Writin
5, 6 and 7
8: Water
45.
cleaning women
27: rical:ingineering
28 Machine Construction
?9:
30 and 31: Machine Tool Construction
32:
Unknown
33:
Anteroom to 34
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34:
Office of the he
35:
Refers. - Medic
6. The*'fifth floor of the building is occupied by offices of some of the
General Departments of ZAFT and the offices of the Department of Standards
and Quality Control of the State Planning Co fission. The-following is
the distribution of offices in this floor afar as they are known (see
3: Office of the head of the Department for Organizational
Planning
4: Interpreters' office
5, 6 and 7: Archives
8: ;;'ester closet
9: Light and ventfiition shaft
10: Room for cleaning women
11, 12 and 13: Referate of Plan Processing I, II, and III
14: Storage room
15: Crater closet
16: Light and ventilation shaft
19, 20 and 24: Staircases
23 and 29: Housekeeping Department
All other offices on this floor belong to the Standards and quality Control
Attachment 5):
1: Referat of Finance
2: Anteroom to 3
7.
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