ADMINISTRATION FOR INDUSTRIAL MATERIAL (18TH MAIN ADMINISTRATION)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006600440006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the
National Defense of the United States within the
Secs. meaning 793 of athe nd Espionage 4, the t transmTitle 18, U.S.C.
ission or revel-
ation of is prohibited any by manner to an unauthorized law.
East Germany
Administration for Industrial
Material (18th Main Administration)
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"Administration for Industrial er
used in the Ministry. It is also known that the 8linirtry has rubber
stamps which read "l8. Eauptverwaltung Pirns" (16th XA, Pirna .
1+ may. 1955
1. In early March 19559 the Central Department for Pinanoes and Prices in that the East German Ministry rtheMachine
Minirtry8a lotoobewtraneferred from the
number of enterprises under
Main Administrations to which they have been subordinate so far and are
to be placed under a now J4dminirenfwfor Industrial rthrmos~e speoi'iedithetQth
waltung tuer Industriebedarf)? It was
financial accounting of this administration would not be ha.ledr t the
above-named Central Department, but independently .of its two
enterprises indicated as ~~vth? ar~tralaffiliated
Department~forh~'inaaoessandtion
for Industrial Material,
Prices was informed on this occasion, arst
YES Masohinenfabrik $ohkeudits, formerly under the MA fir Chemical,
Ceramics and Food Industrie${ and
TEB Astra in Karl$Marx-8tadt, formerly under the MA for
Precision Mechanics and Optics..
2. It is confidentially known among the employees of the Ministry that the
new Administration for Industrial Material is a cover name for the
afician reacthasivateasd
former 18th Administration in Dessau#iwh has
yet
the recent past. It seems that no definite
been given to the reactivated 18th Administration and that the designation
t isl" is one of several cover names
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