SUBMARINE PEN AND UNDERGROUND WORKROOM AT WISMAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006900300005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE DISTR 23 FEB 5].
COu RV Germany (Russian Zone)
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SUBJECT Submarine Pen and Underground Workroom
at Wismar
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION!
An underground work- and storeroom is located just cut-side the shipyards at
VVisBmar, Mecklenburg. It is entered via an elevator, which is located in
a small building, about the size of a one-family house, on the surface of
the ground directly over the room. The room is about 100 by 75 meters in
size.
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20 about 25 workers and the following
equipment in the underground room:
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CENTRAL IN? [. GENIE AGENCY REPORT NO.
Thidocument is hereby regraded to
CONFIDE; IAL in accodance with the
letter of 3 Gco5er 1978 from the
Director a:citral Intelligence to the
Archivist c; io United States.
Neva Review De: Aaaroved For I
35 torpedoetype G7a (1)
35 torpedoestype G7e (2)
15 training heads
? "Ruckpatronen" (sic) (possibly "Rauchpatronen"L smoke
signal cart:,.dges )
? Leuchtbogen" (sic) (possibly Leuchtbojen" life buoys)
2030 Jerry cans vsia.h torpedo oil (1)
S magnetic heads
3 0 large submari ne pgn? similar to those at Cherbcur&
ranee, un er cons ruction at the Wismar shipyards The interior was
nearly complete. Anchored in the pen aver a three submarines, type V of thformer German Navy. They had a d.? splacement of 750 tons aremounted the
following weapons: three torpedo tubes in the bop aced tzvo asternone
150 mm. gunone twin mounted 22 mmgun, and cne heavy machine gun in the
turret, Other equ .pmentt included a radar set and a schnorke.tt. The
radar set bore the narking t'RFT Leipz3 g"? The periscope was allegedly
49 feet bong. (3)
1The area of the pen is closely guarded and. the entire labor borceaapproximately 1400 men is isolated from the tilation(4)
5o The majority of the labor force are h.-..red in ,h.e g mnasium. of the
Rsrann'Bor?sig irm.urze StrasseBsrli aa-Vilhemruh0 They are trarzsported from there to Wismar under the cover of darkness.
6Die officer in charge of nava? training at Wismar is Kurt Schneiders age
about 27s a former Lieutenant, JOG. (Oberleutnant) in the German
submarine service.
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Cnun enta A type used by -4:e former German Navy,
eats they were an improved u' rsion of
those used by the German Pavy0 They have a maadmm
range of 46 3M (nautical ::?l.es?) as compared with
the 36 SL range of the German wartime type.
25X1 (3) ~Co elnts This is an improvement over the German -7artime
type., which. Evan enl.,y 40 feet long.
25X1 (4) I ICerment: It is bLlievicez that the inetailations described
in this report are the property of the h auptvar-
waitung $eepolizei of the DDR rather than of the
Iissian occupying authorities.
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