SDAG WISMUT INSTALLATION NO. 6

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CIA-RDP80-00810A007500130006-2
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June 16, 2008
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September 7, 1955
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REPORT
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Approved For Release 2008/06/16: CIA-RDP80-00810A007500130006-2 S-E_C-R E_T ' X COUNTRY SUBJECT PLACE ACQUIRED DATE OF INFO. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT East Germany SDAG Wisaiiu.t t Installation, No. 6 NO, OF PAGES NO. OF ENCLS. (LISTED BELOW) SUPPLE1 REPORT THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793 AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL- ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON 15 PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED. Construction workers were seen-entering and leaving the installation. It was rumored that the enlargement was connected with a possible storage of contact ore III: It was also rumored that Friesen, which is located close to the main shaft in installation No 6, could THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION 25X1 -!te ow -b eer- 30 carloads of contact ore II were daily dispatched toward Lengefeld for washing. Enlargement work at Friesen .was not yet completed. 40w. I ago. .-A Em 4"4*7e~ ,''ie efttire installation area to Tanncnbergsthal for wa.shi..ng. Other ore types were allegedly not processed there.1 No changes were observed at the Bergen mining district. It was :S=w=k ,.- expected that the new gallery 151 would be rich. During the period of observation, this gallery was driven through drift 151 at the 366-meter level of shaft 254. However, work has not yet been successful. So far, the usual lenticular masses of ore of uranium mica, which are characteristic for the Bergen galleries, have only been found. The intensive driving of transverse gallery To 14 toward the mining areas of the two combines of Zobes is also of interest, since it is expected that, after leaving the Bergen r.will lead to the slate layer of lobes which is ?ern en was thus riade_a_bLxLzx_ ax-ea 1111111110' shaft No 14.1 own to-a level of 30 meters an No 11 and 151 did not yet s'aow a cl lode. Drifts of the 366.-meter level was continued, include (gallery 109), and ;5 to Gallery 151. Gallery CLASSIFICATION NAVY NSRB a4111114a" ARMY AIR FBI AEC I x 0SI Ev X Approved For Release 2008/06/16: CIA-RDP80-00810A007500130006-2 replace Auerbach as dispatching station. 254, eries of.+" which hauling 146), 109a and 109b llery 7) in addition red with comparatively 25X1 25X1 7 September 1955 rich rul.t s at A 25X1 J Approved For Release 2008/06/16: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007500130006-2 SECRET II, which had so far been 400 and 120 tons respectively, appears to have increased during the first quarter of 1955? During the first quarter of 1955, an average estimated output of 1,500 to 2,000 boxes of uranium mica containing contact ore II was reached per month. The monthly average amount of contact ore I and 5. The two combines of the lobes force estimated at 4,000 men. The Zobes mid) two indepen fol1.oc!in ar en been divided into and.3'.r% Concordance Y-coordinate Number Number Shaft 277 Shaft 294 Shaft 320 Shaft 354 Shaft-362 17,360 95, 890 436 meters 18,110 95'930 477 17,580 95,390 474 17,810 95,700 447 (central shaft) 17,430 94,690 480 meters (central shaft) There may be differences of plus/minus 10 meters in the coordinates and of plus/minus 1 meter in the heights. The plan providing for an enlargement of shaft 277 was not yet completed. After late February 1955, an iron elevator tower was seen over the shaft. Shafts 354 and 362 were also called central shafts by their combines. ted strata at Zobes was slate rock, large amounts ?e found there, which placed Zobes among the first ._4? reducing locations of Vlismut. sari other information on results achieved for contact groups the output figures for Zobes were estimated Contact ore I : During the last months, below the 10,000 tons which 25X1 had previously been-reported and which amount was estima E ,. v +~;L# main output was pitch blender ylwbom~ tnly little contact ore I. Contact ore II: Approximately 2,000 tons during the months of the first quarter of 1955. Bergen were not available. It was learned, however, that considerable amounts were found at Zobes. m rood, since pertinent figures from Compact ore, that M 9I e output figures for Zobes could Contact ore III: Approximately 12,000 to 15,000 boxes per month in the first.qua~# - ? SECR,' T Approved For Release 2008/06/16: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007500130006-2 mining district still had a work No further dismissals were observed. Approved For Release 2008/06/16: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007500130006-2 SECRET -3- The growing importance of Zobes for', ' - iii aluo indicated by intensified security measures '.,iscl i by t} tration in Auerbach which is also responsible for Zobes. The guards for the individual shafts of the two combines were combined into a central guard service for the entire area of Zobes. A 2.50 meter barbed- wire fence surrounded the shafts and local administrations of the entire mining district of Zobes. KVP chocked general `.`.'ismut passes and individual shaft passes. of persons entering and l eavinn the installation. 8. Installation No 6, which includes the combine Schneckenstein and the Ta;.nnonbergsthal minin district had approximately 2,000 men: The shaft numbers previously reported for Schneckenstein wore confirmed. At all shafts of Schneckenstein and Tei enbergsthal, the first levels were at a depth of 100 meters, measured from the surface. Other main levels followed at internals of 60 meters in depth. Between these levels, the--c were intermediate lovele to be Peached through closed shafts. The structure of the mine seems to 9. be very similar to that in Zobes. Since most of the Schneckenstein d in slate rock area, an output of large amounts l#~_T it be expected. The galleries which sloped at an *916 of 40 to. 'degrees, in a 10. north-south strike direction were flat, difficult to work on, often on the verve of' profitable exploitation. The Schneckenstoin and Ta.nrmabergs thal output figures could not be obtained. The Tarnnenbergsthal mini nc; district with its main shaft 181 . had the same difficulties as did Bergen. Both distr 2_ots were almost exhausted and Were about to be shut do :n. There was much talk about the "profitableness" at the mine administrations a:-ad it was learned that the main headquarters of installation 6 in Auerbach planned to abandon shafts which failed to fulfil their plan two or three times. 11. The geological experimental shaft at Schoenbrunn1which included a number-of prospects scattered over the entire area of installation- 0ontinued operation. Shafts 172, 184 and 278 which were said to belong to Schoenbru_nn do not exist. There were also no indications that digging was actually done in the installation. The following coordinates and heights were given for prospects 19, 37 and 59: Concordance Y-coordinate Tloi_ght above Number Number sea level Prospect 19 19,100 P ospact 37 16,400 Prospect 59 189465 93,800 91,890 93,595 44.4 meters 25X1 u/i 4.49 meters . Comment. The abcve-monticned distribution of contact groups may be authentic as this was confirmed by the Bergen district. The assumption that contact ore III was trucked in boxes from the shaft directly to Zengefeld could not be cones i rm.ed. 25X1 Approved For Release 2008/06/16: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007500130006-2 Approved For Release 2008/06/16: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007500130006-2 Approved For Release 2008/06/16: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007500130006-2 SUD"KIM 6 PL/itiW: Q w,U lioE%{) 001 C."' Wo, Approved For Release 2008/06/16: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007500130006-2 CENTRAL O u rCM c_NC ? C Z N I C Y. R H O C) Ulm O E ? b alt, L xr ~'l r WAG TV, fit. r '&t CAP MGM q' 541f .f:? 7 ~V~.r~ P ~.g C e r u3 i( A 69 Gt 'rJ4 1 ~ Ill ~~ it c': t B ..~'.. 1 uan nc c7 r 1o) eO c r e r ~. ?' avt7~~33c,4s~=C>c>r x~t r _~~c ,,a~ 7 September 1?55 The aye bunker installation rs pricoon urn WAY opr;.....;.. b ~,.., :~. .. ?'S? [?1?l:'~.; W Irric F=ins:. U10 not v;o?:; c'? rnpie#:c o Con ..Lb'~~.,. .y not p...>saveE W.'ool.. 3. Wo c'har2,. e ware obcaz=v at the ."',:,'gan mining Cilataketo "`3 r:,'.'o e,; psc,,ted that the no i gallery 151 riot d Cl'a via!. During W >'''r^C of this gallery >-i t drMn Mxcug drift 13.. A ..:.1^ JjW 7"'w for l o io2. of Halt 254. Eo'iev : t ,c 'i ~~To not yet 3 u.:d i;03G WN. W fay, ` hs COW 1O?',ntioni,o ::^;3sow of oyt",' Of cranium Moe,-;) u1n.o':2- cw(~' OR thm Bergen l d eva only bean fount. The ..Z':tang .o 1.....`.t;ing of ri::a.. ov,::ono -r'. l Ne:,y W o 1, ~C9l:c the mining .`'ohn 6, : M tun eombin o of Moo fe Woo of iato 'nsto earn wpe:'otti ;C' tW9 after leaving tho ' vgoli g mi to acch, it W11 load to the Onto layer ofJo co Mich lo Koh in rGzgan waQ thus main a bo::'la area of the Zoboc; ~(9Y1' ?-~ I c ~ 1..1f'`^' ~ ~ YA 1 ,101. " ! 3'~ ?.~,,~~'d, ?,v'-^_ p ~'C? 1 L'.?as COON OWN 0- tc1 ~?.I ;~ o ~::..1 ?c,U.I?AS do,"., cif a aQvCQ4. Of 30 ffi_:vCr.f; ova LJw^ ;unk W ., 1;? 11 and 151 did not yet fC,hoy a Vast pi-turn of the ~9+a:~:z=:e;i.,;' 1odo, u.S.,7,W W the 365-z'.~i;e J ov\`'.'.z Of 'tJ `3 COi3KSL'.?.od, i toiuded MTV fto >6n a gMo y 1,610 103n oac. !OF'') O t~,i w , 1.~.o:;y ..099 at'1(~ 95 cad 93 c~aly .Y 2, jW10 .'y 7) in WnHo o, a G0110000 14a apd MY WC13 VI C! Uq ti., ow po:.=:;,'i a1