SUBTERRANEAN PLANT NEAR BERNAU PRODUCING AUTO AND AIRCRAFT ENGINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000800550011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 26, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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Archivist of the United S
officers and enlisted men are Working there.
or lodging, have been housed in barracks and asst g-n d to s
in the plant. in addition, approximately '1_,('000 ;'30?vie4
although the figure has been placed, at 15,000 by re
.dents. Among thin are many Germans' recently re.,l_ea&)-:^:d f:.C'oiml
Soviet captivity who, having failed to a':f.nd. Lhoir r' .ni l.ie
automobile. motors and later converted to V?w,w,eazpon :iianufa,ct...
It was in excellent condition when the Ilussia.ns took t air
Wartime employment strength was at h pyre ,a n
time approximately 2.000 Germans a re . e i r e~~ d ;~7 ': em;".
2 During the war, the Schwarzkopf-Werke produced airci%aft an
to Wan.dlit.L is under surveil-lance. The plan lt arid J r;s imne(
areaare guarded,,
fore the war and. en"arged in 1979 he plant is extrem ply
.Well camouflaged by an overgr o-?,Ah of p _ne trees, Two v or'.
roads lead to it, passing two stony, rv.iin roa;
hauling tanks for the Russians. The plant 5 located about
kilometers- north>"lest of Bernau on the road to "dand1.itz, is
euh terrane: n one built in anproximate1. ~ eighty u~ ter depth, tae._
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'etter of 16 October
Director of Central lnteil
Next Review Date: 2006
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The former Schwarzkop, near Berr?au ! Z96)
is producing automobile and aircraft engines and alao is a,
Approved For Release 1999/09/24: CIA-RDP82-00457R000800550011-5
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