DISMANTLING OF THE IG FARBEN WORKS AT FROSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001800230006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 23, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
pproved For RgWifQ 2OONlL
Ge r.,y (Rus Tian Zone)
Djmrant1in of the IG
Farben t'orko at Frose
DATE D!STR. 23 August x.918
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AS MEWED NECESSARY HY THE R#CEtUING AOF.G:CY.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH
USE OF TRAINED INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS
The former 10 Farban complex at Frose, near Aschersleben, consisted of V m
following plta.nts befo o Arril, 1948:
a. Plants 220 and 230, equipped with four and eight autoclave respecti.?e,ly.
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a which v eread i Plt 220
' prenans and 230 are
dram ofs'? Dr. .Easter was in ch~t of these installations.
The Opanc.21 Uerlc, l,shere synthetic rubber vas nsrufactured br the e1co'1ol
an1 n itro,, h rrocess. Dr. t;orgenstern was In charm-e of this plant.
c. The nicl :.1 works, T. here the pure metal tms painstakingly extracted from
nickel sludge i.rltich uas? imported from the United States More the mar.
As the -? ?r rrot?rersed,, activities at this plant came to a stop because of
the lack of raw materials.
2. The Froce works more being totally di.c :ntled in April 194 and were ship-ed
off to Szo jecin to athar with stocks of crude lead valued, before the war, at
of ht million R. I. Tt o hundred woricer, t more e toyed in the disc. I.: tlinr . The
project was c;parent1y nearing comrletion in April, . ince by that tine the ten
tyre taking c:otin the 1. -on onrerstr