CONSTRUCTION OF WELDING SHOP AT WERK CHEMNITZ (VVB IFA)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013300230001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Construction of Welding, Shop at work Ch snitz NO. OF PAGES 1
(VVB IFA)
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DATE OF
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OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE WEANING OF TITLE 19. SECTIONS 703
AND 704. OF TH! U. S. CODE. AS AWEIDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT DY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED DY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS PURR IS PROHIBITED.
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Building eontraotorl in Hainichen (N 51/K 77) was allegedly
ordered to construct a welding shop for the IFA Plant in Chemmitz (N 51/
K 66). The total order amounted to 190,000 eastmarks. Only orders of
100,000 eastmarka, or less, can be placed with private firms. Therefore,
the project was divided into two separate construction projects, The
first construction project is said to have already started. Allegedly,
the construction order is top priority because the welding shop is
urgently required for the production of a cross-country twin-engine
jeepol
25X1 .lI--]C ent. The IFA Plant in Chemnibz is a plant of the former-Auto..
Ion corporation. After its expropriation it became an enterprise of
25X1 the VVB IFAO The scheduled construction of a cross-country twin:aengine
jeep may have some connection with similar projects of the Audi lant i
Zwickau (N 51/K 34) which have been previously reported.
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