AIRCRAFT ENGINE PLANT IN RIGA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R010500020012-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY (Latvian SSR )
.SUBJECT Aircraft Engine Plant in Riga
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. July to November 1945:
lp Location: See sketch.
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a. Building, 200 x 80 x 3,". feet, let floor: Polishing and
nickeling section; 2d floor-V office, conference room, apart-
ments, transformer station.
bO Buildin.m, 500 x 200 x 80 feet, 1st floor: Turning,shop,
grinding shop, boring and d:?illin g machines; 2d and 3rd floor:
4 ssembly room (engines dismantled) n 4th floor: C: eaning 'of
engine parts, fittinr in of stuffings; 5th floor: Store room-.,
c,, Administration office and designing office, two stories,
150 x 80 x 30 feet.
d0 Gasoline and otl depots, four lv,rne containers, under-
ground, two large oil containers of unknown capacity.
sm Gasoline filling station, several underground anki,
~ of ne , supply each day.
f.' Foundry: eight electric iieriens melting furnaces; three
annei3ling furnaces, six hardening furnaces, one large and
three small crane crabs, mold.ng shop, 200 x 100, x 50 feet a
gV Carpentry, 130 x 100 x 30 feet, two stories.
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hm Gara; es and auto,zobile repair shore, 60 x 20 x 20 feet
i e Bo; lerhouse', it-,O x 80 x 33 feet, two stories. On 3rd
floor, a depot. I3rick smokestack 100 feet hi -h (coon with
foundry).
Stora rre for aircraft en~,ines
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3 k'orzer German field air park, re-erected by Soviets in 19
as repair plant for a irc s'alt engines.
4. Grinding crank shafts and. cylinder
liners of 12-cylinderrV-in-line engines and 6-cylinder radial
engines. Grindin,rzachlnes for crank shafts and cylinder
lines coming from the USA.. In the Autumn of 1945, German
machine tools arrived from Germany; they had been dismantled
in the k' KE-WULk' Plant.
5. No railroad sidings.
die Electric current from Hick.
7. . Premises enclosed by, stone walls.
8. Guarded by the Soviet Air P'orce
9. L-,cation,
About 7; miles west of he Duena 'fiver, the totin district
of IE1.^1A, Sldkas iela 52 (see sketch). The plant si is sur-
roundeC by dwellings. RIGA Castle was on the opposite bank
of the river, northeast of the .plant.
10. Area: 1,OOO x 1,300 feet, 10 buildings.
1.1. The plan,: was an old factory- datln: from the Latvian period
and was used by the i'ocke-v.ulf i.erke during the German occu-
pation.
2,2. Labor
Five hundred uuersons, mostly ne+i, about 100 of them soldiers
of the Soviet Air Force.
,iach.ines
Some machiriss, (crane installations) came from the r'ocke-
Vaulf V,erkc , The cylinder -rinding :rachinvs and lathes often
showed considerable sins of wear. The d egree of efficient
was 50 percent at :rot Nevertheless the workers called the
plant the ~,-,ost moder'n installation in the Soviet Union.
14, Producti:an:
Source could not judge the -i-axlmuvi output of the plant, but
know that 3 to 1.0 ai^cra"t onrines were taken apart each gay,
ahd th:11, every other day a turbine engine left the plant.
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