V-WEAPON ACTIVITIES, DEPORTATION OF ENGINEERS AT PEENEMUNDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100820011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 12, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Germany/Russian Zone
SUBJECT V-' aeon Activities, Ds
1.
Landeeverw ltung 5chwerin> The Germans are used only in daytime al-
though dismaxr,Uling often Was on through the night. There apparently
is some confusion between those constructing and those dismantling.
New scr ua f cr platforms, for instance? were taken and shipped by the
dismantlers on night shift.
Deportees include engineers Mathis, Hanisch, Pehie, and construction
engineer Tolingyl (also received Tolingki). They were.confined to their
homes on 21-22 October and shipped with their familit&s from Zinnowitz
on 24 October. Two important engineers escaped on 30 October and we-e
ndLreccptured. Peeenei de workers are attempting to escape every day,
;pecifyiwg' thy: ? Brit:shi Zoaa as t,icdx goa.l:4
laying of cables to platform seven, and the providing of electric
current for a so.-called movable meteorological station with cover
designation of initials F1S (Field teorological Station?).
2,, Simultaneous dismantling is proceeding fast. Some equipment, has al-
ready been shipped via water from Peen flnde harbor,, and it is planned
to ship specially heavy equipment and V-weapons in the sates' msnnerb
Tracks were relayed between Werk Ost (mast Plant) and harbor b
3. Over l,00O German workers have been drafted since 20 October through the
At Peene? Inde launching platforms seven and nine are in process of
reconstruction and assembly with eighty experts employed. Work is
;ipso progressing eta V is " reea -apan" for platform seven., The "Brenn-
wagon" is orda?ed to be ready within six months. Other jobs include
install tiun of the electrical equipment for the " nnwa n", be
Director of Central lnte?'_gence te; aS