SOVIET TRADE MISSION IN BERLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400200005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 26, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
COUNTRY East Germany/USSR
SUBJECT Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin
DATE OF INFO.
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
REPORT
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COUNTRY East G
rmany
Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin
1. The offices of the Soviet Trade Mission for Eastern Germany were
located in Berlin on Brunnenstrasse. (At the present time it is
rumored.that these offices have been moved to the Soviet Embassy
building on Unter den Linden.) Near the USSR Trade Mission building
on Brunnenstrasse were the offices of DERUTRA and DERUNAFT. The
offices of Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga were located in the same building
with DERUTRA.
following way:
a. Trade Representative (Torgpred)
b. First Deputy
c. Second Deputy
it was organized in
d. Third Deputy; referred to as Deputy for Personnel
e. Transportation Section
f. Legal Section; Section Chief, Aleksandr VYZHANOV
g. Accounting Office
h. First (secret document) Section
i. Real Estate Section. This section was in charge of several
apartment houses belonging to the Soviet Trade Mission (sold
to the Germans in mid-1951) and all hotels of INTURIST in
East Germany.
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As in any other Soviet organization belonging to the Ministry of
Foreign Trade, there were probably also the following sections:
commercialifinance, planning, personnel, and administrative (AKhO).
3. Until the end of`1950 the personnel of the Berlin Trade Mission,
DERUTRA, DERUNAFT, and Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga lived in apartment
houses belonging to the Trade Mission located on an unidentified
street opposite the building which housed the Central Committee
of the German Communist Party. There were no special security
controls for the inhabitants of these houses; no enclosures, no
guards, and no pass system. When it was decided to sell these
houses, all Soviet personnel were moved into several. apartment houses
in Karishorst, a Soviet enclave surrounded by a wire fence with
several rows of barbed wire on top. The only means of entrance into
this area was by two gates guarded by Soviet Army guards armed with
submachine guns. The rear part of the enclave was guarded by East
German police and dogs stationed outside the wire fence. A pass
was issued by the Karlshorst komendatura to each inhabitant of the
Karlshorst enclave, and the pass had to be presented to the guard at
the gate when entering and leaving the area. In 1951 the security
regulations in Karlshorst were tightened upc
a. Beginning in 1951 German servants were removed from the area
and admittance to Germans was strictly prohibited.
b. In mid-1951 persons billeted in Karlshorst were permitted to
leave the enclave from 0600 to 2330 hours and to enter from
0600 to 2400 hours. Frop 2+00 t
gates were closed to everybod
5. There was a general regulation for classification and handling of
correspondence valid for the Trade Mission, DERUTRA, DERUNAFT, .
Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga and other organizations of the USSR Ministry
of Foreign Trade located in Eastern Germany. This was type regula''tion
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