AIRCRAFT PLANT AT RODBEREZHE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010000240007-1
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO,
USSR (Ivoscow Oblast)
DATE DISTR, lC' Feb. 1952
tvircraf't Plant at I oabererhe
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1. The experts of the airframe sections of the Siebel, Heinkel and Junkers
Aircraft Plants were deported to Podberezhe (56oL51N/37o091E), Moscow
Oblast,where they worked in a small airframe plant. This plant, which
had been repaired by German PWs, was equipped with machinery dismantled
at the above mentioned German plants. The plant had a work force of about
2,000.. (1)
2. Under,. the supervision of chief designers Heinz Roessing and Guenther, (fnu),
a rocket-driven prototype model, designed at the German Research Institute
for Gliders (DFS) before the end of the war, was built. The gross weight
of the plane was 3.5 tons, the initial thrust was about 3 tons. So far as
source knew the plane was to be.used as a light bomber. Further details
were not available. (2)
3. The reconstruction of the model, which was designated DFS-3146, was completed
in June 1950. Flight tests with the craft were to start at an airfield east
of Stalingrad in June 1950. The DFS-346 was to be towed to an altitude of
10,000 meters and then released. The craft, manned by only one pilot in
prone position, had a rated speed of 1,800 ?ten per hour. The so-called C
and T agents, formerly used in Germany, were to serve "-,,;9r-.the craft.
Lj.. In the summer
ly 17 tons, wa
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have been turn
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km per hour. Nearly all the aircra ? truments were recently developed.
.~' A course control set, operating on the induction principle, was also new-
ly installed. Through this set, all course data were automaticall
fed t
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a Siemens-type.oscillograph for later evaluation. This device was constructed
by the Siemens organization deported to Leningrad. (5)
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then shipped out. Details are not available.
6. Wolfgang Ziese, formerly employed at the Siebel Aircraft Plant, was the
test pilot for the ]FS-3116. He was later to be replaced by Karl Treuter,
who had flight tested the Ju-88. On 1 September 1950, 55 German famili6s
were returned while 550 specialists remained in the U.S.S.R., some with
their dependents. The cooperation between Germans and Russians was very
poor.
F-3 7. Source heard that the Jumo-003 C engine was mass produced in Kazan. (,-
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(1) This i ormation was previously known LJnlr1
(2) Heinz Roessing was a designer from the .ant. Information
on him was previously transmitted. Sieg the chief designer
of the Heinkel iircraft Plant. He'is be ieve o ave igher qualifications
than Roessing. Although FWs mentioned experiments with a rocket-propelled
aircraft in Podberezhe, details on the type of plane concerned have not
been obtained. There is a possibility that the information refers to a
further development of the Me-263, an improved version of the Me-163 designed
by Marschofen with an endurance of 15 minutes. Although about 1100 airframes
of this type were available at the end of the war, the corresponding
engines were never built.
(3) The advanced work on the Dl'S-346 is known. Noteworthy is the remark that
the plane was to be tested at a field east of Stalingrad. Light and
smoke phenomena were repeatedly observed by PWs in the are: a6 of Ot.al i?
grad in the summer of 1949. While these phenomena were prey
ed to be connected with V-2 launchings they are now believe
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(4) The information partly contradicts previous information acc
the flight tests for this type of aircraft, except for the
range test, were completed in late 1948. There is a p
tests observed concern a version of this type of airc
more powerful engines. Noteworthy is the reference to
where the tests were apparently made. This statement 1
to the somewhat fanciful description of the flying act ,hee
by FWs.
(5) This is believed to refer to the Leningrad organization to which Hermann
Wolff is attached. `u'olff once comalained in writing about an oscillograph
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(6) The manufacture of steel units for the V-2 is believed to be incorrect
since no V-2 expert was attached to the construction staff concerned. Other
parts required for aircraft were presumably concerned.
(7) Two Soviet engineers from Plant No 16 in Kazan were present in Upravlen-
cheski. However, according to available information, German engineers
from Upravlencheski were sent to Ufa to eliminate difficulties experienced
with turbine power plants there.
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