PLANNED FORMATION OF AN EAST GERMAN MINING MINISTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005700650001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 26, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
DATE OF INFO,
PLACE ACQUIRED
East Germany
Planned Formation of an East German
Mining Ministry
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
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THE SOME EVALUATION# IN THIS WOIT AN DI'INITIVI.
THE APMANAL OF CONTINT IE TENTATIVE,
serving the purpose of speeding up the a oular importance, obviously
According to the policy outlined in the second Five-Year s-Ptwo lan a(119 %-1 96bra the
mining power production and fuel industries are not only to be stopped up)totcover
their lag behind the other industrial branches in the 1951-1954 period, but are to be
expanded to such an extent that by 1960 these two essential industries will have the
lead, despise the planned expansion of the other industries.
Comment: The organizational concentration of the power and fuel
n us ies at the new Mining Ministry is of ti
7t was learned
that the Zentralkomilee Central Comffiittee) (Ztt) of the BID was preparing to
forma Ministerium fuer Dergbau (Miring Ministry )(Mf`B) to which Rauptverwaltung
Energie (Main Administration of Industrial, Power) (Hy Energy) was to be asst
This Ministry was scheduled to be Iaet up in the near future. geed.
persons who was undergoing tr*ining at Moscow at the time was designtthe key
the new ministry. Minister Fxi}z Selbmann was excepted toretain tthheiron.,of
steel and nonferrous metal industries sections at his ministry. It was not yet
disclosed to which section or ministry the chemical branch would be assigned.
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