"RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION IN THE SYNTHESEWERK, SCHWARZHEIDE"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005300480004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The Syrnthesewerk Schwarzheide was built by the Germans in nine months during
1937,, It was taken over and partially dismantled by the Russians after the
German defeat and became a Soviet AG in November 1946, From the end of 1946
to date (March 1950) it has operated with a working force (workers, technical
and commercial employees, administrative personnel) varying from 4000 to 4500
persons, approrims.tely one-third, of whom are women,
2 The present German director of the plant is a man named VTeiss, a member of the
SI but not a confirmed Communist. The personnel of the Russian management-
communist party. His deputy in 1946 was a Colonel Kitshigin, now believed
to be dead., Makarov came from the Glavgastoprom, a coal and fuel research
institute in zloscow, which belongs to the Russian Ministry for Fuel Industry,
where he was chief of a department (Abteilungsleiter)..
3. P hen. he was succeeded, in the summer of 1947, by Alexandrov, a member of the
Russian OF, 7karov remained with the plant at chief engineer. In the summer
of 1948, Aledrov Baas replaced by Lavrentiev, a member of the Russian CP
and a very d.nt communist. Re, in turn, was succeeded at the beginning,
of 1949, by Leontiev, also a member of the party. Leontiev left in the summer
of the same year and was replaced by Akopov, an Armenians (original name
Akopian) a member of the party. In I-Aarch 1950, Akopov was still in charge
of the plant.
4. Shortly after the Russians took over the plant, contact was established with
Glavgastoprom and that organization opened an office on the plant premises.
There was a considerable turnover among the members of this office. They
worked in close cooperation with the German staff of the plant's research
department, The Institute, whose name was changed to Minefteprom in the
fall of 1949, concluded a contract with the plant for certain research pro-
jects to be done in Schwarzheide by the Institute members and the members
of the German research depax?tment. This contract was. scheduled' to expire
on 33. March 1950.*
first Russian General ;;'tanager was itlakarov, who is not a member of the Russian
has repeattedlyr changed since the plant was converted to a Soviet AG. The,
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist o f ut! t~i SS e.
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5. In 1946 and early 1947, a Professor Ra'-paport of Glavgastoprom, Moscow,
directed the work of the Institute members in Schwarzheide; he was recalled
25X1 to Moscow During the Professor's stay
in ?ch.nar-z a e, Cons yin ,.,a ov-Panin was his assistant? After 1947,
Engxceer ..r.tshenkov of I,he Moscow Institute made frequent appearances at
Schwarzheide, Mrs Vass.Uieva, a chemist, specialist in i so