TANK ASSEMBLY AT THE STALUIN WORKS LABEDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008000440008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 21, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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C!NTRAL INTtLLIL AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
Tank Assembly at the Stalin
Works, Labedy
This material contains information affecting the
National Defense of the United States within the
meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revel-
ation of which in any manner to an unauthorize-1
person is prohibited by law. 25X1
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO.
REFERENCES
21 October 1955
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Tank assembly work is often interrupted. Workers' estimates of production
vary between two and ten tanks per vsek. Finished tanks are test" in
a ti*ld located behind the assembly shop.
SECRET
Within the area of the Joseph Stalin wades at Lsbsdy (Lsband) (N 50-20,
E 18-37) there is a tank shop. This shop is surrounded by a double feast
and is guarded by armed patrols. 25X1
2. Tanks are assembled here; prefabricated steel forms are shipped into the
plant. Engines are also shipped in from outside, presumbly from Rados.
No tank repair work is done; only nw tanks of the T-34 tppe Law the
plant. No old or dirty tanks have been seen in the area.
hi NAVY
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