SOVIET MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP "PROGRESS", ZEESEN BRANCH INSTALLATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006600570009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2008/01/15: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006600570009-1
CLASSIFICATION SECRET
East Gormaegr REPORT
COL'KAiRY-
TOPIC ~~.. ~,~. 'viet Motor Vehicle Repair Shop "Progress"
EVALUATION P1 ACF OBTAINED
DAT'I OFD. CONTEi
DATE PREPARED
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This is UNEVALUATED Information)
Zeesen Branch Installation
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4 April 1955
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o I zrch 55~ 50 ZI&type vehicles and 50 vehicles of Studebaker ma set 60 jeeps
and .0 tank trucks were to be eiit: rely overhauled in the Zeesen repair shop,
2, overhauled vehicle: at the installation included: 50 ZISF-type vehicles,,
25 v hicles of Studebaker ma!~eg 25 tank trucks, 20 jeeps, 4 repair shop trucks and
W GAZ-.tom ambulances; Approx ' ~toly 2,000 motor vehicles in need of repair were
alit edly stored in the parking lot;, Many vehicles arrived recentlyo
3 ;, Q h%rch. 50 vehicles of ?'tudebaker make were loaded onto flatcars with sideracks,
pressuunably for the USSR;, Tho shipment was excorted by 1 officer and 15 to 20 soldiers,
who were quartered in a boxcar,-
4o The previous fatigue detail of 50 soldiers was replaced by a detail of 4 to 5 officers
and 100 soldiorsr who did not speatc German and had not worked at the. repair shops
t~ofoa e? After a short introduction the soldiers were detached to Potsdam to attend
courses on motor vehicles;,
5 P b, a a general about 2 waters tall., wh was accompanied by 42 officers of
v,srious ranks., again inspected the Installation, he preparations for the inspection
took sevsral days., during which work was discontinued? ea,,, ly Ma 6 G s who
worked at a Soviet motor vehicle repair shop in Leipzig visited the repair "02 dayso
It was rumored that ZI&-,5 type vehicles were to be repaired exclusively in Leipzig
and ZIS-150 and ZIS ~i51 ec c1us- vely in Zeesen0
Almost 700 men were employed in the installationo Continuous shortages of materials,
howsrer, considerably affected the productivity of the plant o An e y Pebruary~, $0
iron bedsteads were manufactured into angular ironso
0x4 26 'ebruary:. a Soviet commissibir of 1 general and approximately 80 officers arrived
in 15 sedans and 2 buses and thoroughly inspected the entire installation including
the area in front, 1Nla jar construction work was to be performed rior to 1. 0 tob~r.
The angina construction section su'hsequently 'was to be transferred from Oberschc~ene
welds to Zeesene 25X1
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