FORMER KAISER WILHELM INSTITUTE NOW IN KELASURI, NEAR SUKHUMI, GEORGIAN SSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 7, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL I N
INFORMATION
COUNTRY USSR
Kelasuri, near Sukhumi, Georgian SSR
SUBJECT Former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Now in
PLACE
ACQUIRED
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DATE OF. IN
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THIS DOCRDQDT CODTAIDS INFORMATION AM=N6 THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THR DHRSD BTATBP ?RNIN THR NSANINS OR TH>Z ESPIONAGE ACT 50
U.S. C.. St AND U. AS AMENDED. ITS TRAHG1715SION OD THE DWRIATION
OF ITS CONTTSTS IN ANT ^A111 55 TO AN DDADTDONIZSD P418011 16 P110.
RISITS0 09 LAW, RSPIIDODCIIOD OF THIS FORM 18 FRONIO1555.
REPORT NO.
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7 October 1949
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I., a. Location: See Annex I
b. Plant installations (for general location see Object B on.
Annex 1):
About 10 three-story dwelling buildings, each 83x33 fee vu
Four-story building with laboratory and designing office,
330xiCO feet v
Engine house (see sketch 2 c,. 4nnex 2)
Transformer station . 26x26x17 feat.
%Dater basin, "gas tank", about 17 feet in 'diameter and 26 to
33 feet high
Several small %vorkahops,.
All buildings were completed in the spring of 1948..
ci. Power supply: Via high-tension line, no de-tails~
d0 The arrival of 46 ammonia cooling plants supplied by the
Zi{ICKAU 11 Kaelteteohni.k11 (Fiefrig?3ration Engineering) Firm was
observed.,
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e stated, "Professor HERTZ is here in
charge of +Fie reestablishment of the Kaiser W12hehcu Iris -At2;.,Ge1
a. Location: See Object B on Annex 1 fCias
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 b0 Size of plant area: 1,300 feet a1oj~`; tic road, 1,65(3 feet
ire the direction of the I:;, and
side 333 feet on its eaote cn
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Location: Stated the location of object B on Annex 1,
bs, The most important building was the "en ine house". Ga.s,
compre:,sed air, aria electrical lines, crere being laid thcs'vo
sic noise of uetal-workin machines emanated from this bu ld-
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C. P1 1_t instail.!tions: Pour-story semi-circular builL::ing,
330 fact long;, laboratory.
Ei"_?t five-story buildiia j, each 200x265 feet,
Ulle five or six story buildin-,. 4C0 feet long.
Pov;er plant, 85x85 feet.
1211ree tanLs for as or liquid.
settleM-_;nnts with about ten small houses wore located out-
side the plaid; inotall.;tiona,
d4 The arrival of German machinery and boxes was observed.
en Observation of an incident:
One day a train of 11 or 12 freight cars carryin, boxes arrived.
Diesc boxes con.taiii.ed corru oted sheet metal containfts, each
18x18x6 inches, i:rit:i four zing cylinders each. Each cy-
linder was 18 inches lon" and about 5 to 6 inches in diameter.
One of the .;e containers foil on the Ground and cracked die-
char a vateriil:e liquid. The soviets at once blocked the
pluce of the incident, stating that "it is danerous".
f, German scientists wore employed in the workshops.
Locution: .All data contained in Annex 1.
b. '~;ao building z;iteo for the reestablisilin en?t of the kaiser
'#ilhelu Institute,
a. Locution:
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Stated the location of objects B and F or.
b, aekported retails reproduced in sketches 3a and 3b (see
wnsx 2),
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the XE vU1.I Kaiser :/i he i.o itute is a research center
and the 1t ,,TAI tuac:iine factory a testin,7 station. Alon
" 1tLI otzier , the dosi ;s?or of the bazooka p:rnzerfauet} was
also viorki.i~, in the Institute.
:-en : s 1 n o a e p l a c e , a ne.
rwacs:l arose connee ini; the ca,tastropbs with an atom bomb
test.
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stated ;b.?anium ore was bein. n'_ned in the mountains near
6DI L in a strictly ;carded area,
b Cbso. v otions: he iaigcr .rilhe;tm Institute wag being re
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sty: ted th:.,t Vie Institute ryas concerned vitl., nuclear 1)hyoics.
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a ou an ear aqua fe -.511- c 1l c cur r in sue sum-
mer Of ae stated that he had oo?) erved or heard notkting.
He only read a ~ article of J'a.ly 1948 which reported
an earth uake in which tia-cee hundred ti. s eo a lost the r
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Comments .
of the Kaiser ilhelm Institute o'r toP personalJ. ties in their
and experts in t:Le mot varied fie:).ds, who were either members
This report supplements previous information. As the insti..
tuts; is housed in t..-jo different bui1din blockt, it is assumed
that also research reorL, ot, er' than t'i it concerned with nuclear
physics is bein,; doe in a sefreaated installation. This aa-
sun-ptton is corroborated by the fac-I, that numcrou: scientists
2 i'a s: (1) and (2): Farmer Kaiacr '.7ilhelm 1.2stittrte
:domain, are employed.
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