DISPOSITION AND ACTIVITIES OF LIGHT WEAPONS FACTORIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001800180003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 18, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
The Gust loff Berke (pre-1933 Simsonwerke) at Suhl, which were producing pistol
and sportinrv, rifles for the Russians, have been dismantled and transferred to
the Soviet Union.
2. The Walther arms factory in Ze11-a-'!ehlis, which was producing pistols for the
Russians, hag also been completely dismantled.
SUBJECT
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Germany (Russi CONFIDENTIAL
-Disposition and Activities of Li,r.ht
Weapons Factories
DATE DISTR. 1) A,unust 1948
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
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CATS OF .lFO 1947-June 1948
ACQUIRED
d-6 3. The Vereinigte ;.'.etallvrer} , formerly J. P. Sauer & Sohn, are engaged in the
manufacture of sporting weapons and parts for machine pistols. The firm has
also set up a new plant far the production of iypevrriters. Approd.mately on
thousand workers are presently employed in the various divisions of the
Vereinigte r'etaliwerke. Turnover for the first quarter of 1948 anounted to
more than two million R!1, as compared with a total turnover in 1947 of only
4,750,000 R?'p
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