SOVIET CLOTHING DEPOT AT BERNAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009000090006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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10 Observations made at the Soviet clothing depot in Bernau from 9 to 20
July 1951 indicate a considerable increase of the depotss capacity. Eight
additional seamstresses were employed, and 12 nsw sewing machines, including
eight heavy stitching machines) were installed in the uniform tailor shop.
One of the storerooms was converted into a cutting and pressing room.
The underwear shop also received eight new sewing machines. Another tailor
Shop with cutting room and 14 new sewing machines was established. *
. Three trucks
morning of
were seen leaving the depot on the
, carrying canvas?covered goods. Four trucks
wore seen leaving the depot on the morning of 16
July, allegedly Foing to Ebersralde. The cargo of three trucks was covered
by tarpaulins and the fourth truck was loaded with boxes 1 x 1 x 1.5
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In July 19510 it was learned that a train of 30 to 40 cars loaded with
articles of clothing arrived almost dailv at the Soviet clothinr HannJr in
Bernau.
The rate of outgoing
ulaipment,s fa articles of clothing was about the sane as that of incoming
shipments. Shipments observed leaving the depot were dispatched to Frank?
f,ar t/Oder?b order.
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It was :earned that the Soviet personnel in Depot No 11, excluding officers
and mil5tary officials, numbered about 70 Fro most of itism riere recruits. A
lieutencnt colonel was the commandant of the depot
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were abcit 100 German workers The denot buildin s ware heav'l,r ed
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from tYe U.S.S.R, An increasn in 70Nr.:5.1)1n
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