SDAG WISMUT: OBJECTS 6 AND 96

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008401080010-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 6, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This materiel contain information affecting the National Defense Of the Unite" Slat.. within the moaatag of th 001amb! Laws, Title
19, UA.C. secs. 793 and 794, the trammisdon or revelation of which in any manner to an unautbaslwd person Is prohibited by Iaw.
S-E-C-R-E-T
DATE OF INFO.
DATE ACQUIRED
East Germany
SDAG Wismut: Objects 6 and 96
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
6 December 1955
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
Ob ect 6
1. Russians employed- at Object level
Head of Norms Department
Head of OTK (Dept. of Technical Control)
Head of Construction Department
Chief Accountant
2. Russians at Schacht 241
Chief Geologist
Assistant Geologist
Chief Geophysicist
Assistant Geophysicist
Norm Engineer
Mechanical Engineer
3. Russians at Schacht 362
Chief Engineer
Vlasov
P. Yegorov
Blokhin
Bugm7ev
Petrichenko
Trushkov
Sazeklyaniy
Toshidayev
Usatov (has now been transferred
from Schacht 241 to Zobee)
Shemeleveki ( in place of
Cherkasov; returned
to USSR)
Valentina Antonova
Shevyakova (in place of Isatova:
now moved to Object level) 25X1
Borodin (formerly served in Object
90 at Karl-Marx-Stadt)
25X1
4. Organization
As of August 1955, in Object 6 the following posts were filled by Germans,
with Russian deputies: chief engineer (Oberingenieur), master miner
(Obersteiger), and security chief ?(Sicherheitadienst-Chef)(S.S.D.)
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In Object 6, the newly-appointed German Oberingenieur is Willi Doefler, a
Russian-speaking mining engineer, who has worked in the Object since 1947. 1
25X1
5. Safety Precautions
Because of the recent disaster at Niederschlema, the following adiitio?l
safety precautions are to be taken in the mining installations of Object 6:
a. One hermetically sealed gas-proof chamber is to be built for each
Schacht.
b. In every Revier there is to be a safety chamber (in Schacht.241,
which has 7 Reviere, there were previously only 3 safety chambers).
c. A volunteer squad of 60 men in each Schacht is being formed. These men
perform their normal mining functions, but form as a squad and go into
action at the first sign of trouble. Formerly no such action could be
taken without authority by telephone (which took up to an hour to get)
from Schacht headquarters.
d. The central safety/rescue team at Object level has now been assigned
to Schacht level. A full-time squad of 12 ren now live and work in the
area of each Schacht.
e. The insulating material for switches is being replaced. The material
formerly used (Pertinax) was found to be nonresistant to a
a high degree of humidity.
6. Prospecting Areas
The following have previously been reported as areas in which prospecting
was taking place and shafts being sunk. This prospecting was based on the calcu-
lations of the Object's Russian geologists.
Gottesberg
Rebesgruen
Treuen
No uranium ore whatever has been located in these areas. A geologist from Moscow
visited the sites in August, and the equipment is now being dismantled.
7. Production
The intention to overfulfil the 1955 production plan for 1955 by 30% by 5
December 1955 is very unlikely to be achieved.
8. Schaechte 277 and 362
These Schaechte fulfilled by 100% their production norms for August 1955
for high grade ore. . The norms for September are 156 lower than
for October. Plans for October in Schacht 277 are:-
Gallery advance 3,250 meters
Geological testing 1,675 meters
Mine exploitation 13,050 sq. meters
Production of high grade 6,625 boxes
ore -- so-called Kistenerz
(ore to be packed in boxes)
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Plans for October in Schack 362 are:
Gallery advance
Geological testing
Mine exploitation
Production of Kistenerz
9. Kombinat 241
3,000 meters
1,500 meters
12,000 sq. meters
6,030 boxes
August: Kistenerz: 3,015 boxes (this figure is very low since poor ore
was being worked)
September: Kistenerz: norm is 4,470 boxes: exrected to be fulfilled by 105%
October: Gallery advance: 2,000 meters
Geological testing: 1,000 meters
Mine exploitation: 9,000 sq. meters
Object 96
10. Russians: Schacht 269
Official in charge of ventilation P4ilni chenko
Surveyor Sheglakov
Schacht chief Kuznetsov
1.~ ]Comment: Source believes that the appointment of Germans to these
posts formerly held by Russians is common throughout Wismut. He comments
that this partially fulfills the letter of the description of Wismut as a
Russian/German joint company, but that, in fact, Russian control is still
absolute.
Engineer of Wismut, East Germany which made it clear that the innovations
apply to all Wismut Sehaeehte.
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