STATE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION FOR STATISTICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006400150009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 14, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2008/07/16: CIA-RDP80-00810A006400150009-9
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
i, v w S-E-C-R-E-T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
East Germany
State Central Administration for
Statistics
DATE DISTR. 14 April 1955
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. l t itan for s in
the _ast 'ierean hate , lan- i ng horn iissio'', Wa` , 11l vctober 1954, co:%c sed of about
60 selected S.~"~ members. Once a week, weather ~.armittinrr, the rout, undergoes formal
basic traini_ns in the coal courtyard of tl,e Commissi,n before office hours start.
The group also has a sr:.er.ll-calibr target range set up in the cellar of the office
building. The Kampfgruppe rrraeches at the head of th deinonstrc.tors -.t various
rallie It also provides atwo-man guard for the Secret Document:; Office, in
addition to the Volkspolizei guarding the building an(' the .Adnniriis trati n t s own
house 1olice.
2. Head of tl:e Kampfgruppe is . ill i iialze, De,,_~artment Read of the General
Adrniristration (AV).
3. Kurt Dessau, an orthodox ibD member, is in charge of the Ot,atistical Technical
Department - the Hollerith Department - of the Central .d.,inistoation. 25X1
(The Hollerith machines are foreign property and merely rented in .past
Germany `$,e'-.`Mate Central Adminis-
tration for Statistics (Berlin C 2, Klosterstrasse 30-85) has the largest Hollerith
department in East Germany, but the machines are old ar.d. uch in need of re air
thanks to constant overuse &n a three-shift system.
Attempts to
manufacture some of the . arts in the Ea: t German nationalized watch in('ustry met
with little success.
The adding mechanise Summen-
Raffer) of the tabulating machines in jirrticulr_ar can only be replaced with parts
of the on inal manufacture.
Tsince 1993 they- have been manufactured ar d printed in
East German
As Head of the Hollerith departmer_t, Kurt Dessau handled the business liaison
and also received the commissions for contradt placement the-re (i;
addition to his salary in the Administration). Des ite his reputation for Party 25X1
orthodoxy, however, Dessau's business connections have
,muds lea M t seaurit -w fora w is psea on" !t
25X1
UJU
cc -fidwta2 P20i
Approved For Release 2008/07/16: CIA-RDP80-00810A006400150009-9
 Approved For Release 2008/07/16: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006400150009-9
ILLEGIB
Approved For Release 2008/07/16: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006400150009-9