1. TRATTENDORF POWER STATION CONSTRUCTION IN EAST GERMANY 2. EAST GERMAN CONSTRUCTION OF POWER PLANT FOR COMMUNIST CHINA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003701170001-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 16, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the V.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form to prohibited,
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COU14TRY East Germany/Cor>munist.China' REPORT
SUBJECT 1. Trattendorf Power Station DATE DISTR.
'16 Marsh 1954
Construction inl,East Germany
2, East Gernpan Construction of.Power NO. OF PAGES
DATE OF INFO.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL 'OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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East Garman_v
Fritz Eelbiann has again assumed control of power production in East Germs*0??e,'.
hestai edi&T, a recent %mid-November 1953) gathering of electrical engineert..j
acute power. deficit,,
2, Selbmann ordered that the Trattendorf III power station becompleted and
in operation by December 1955. This'power..station now takes precedence over
all other Work in VEB Energieprojektierung,whero the final drawings are being
prepared..
3. The choice of.Trattendorf. III ~o be the main target was determined. by its
size and type,.-. It is to be a 150 MW medium pressure power stationsand thus
relativelyrind'ependent of imported auperiir grade materials, +ht procuur?emeAt
of which is, holding up progress in other high; pressure,type_power stations,
Communist Chi i
4, fwa''officials. of the Ministry of Machine Construction . B erlin Koepenick a ?e
leaving East berma,ny for' Conromunist Chdna on' or about '5' December 1953, The
purpose of their visit is to obtain Supplementary details necessary for the
planning of ' the "DOC" power station.
5. The "DOC" po4er station as ordered by:the Chinese3was to produce 2 MW. This
figure was thought by.V B Energieprejektierung to be uneconomical and has
new been revised to 10 MW, Gorrespendence between VEB Energieprojektierung
and the East German Ministry of Machine Construction indicates that the"I,OC"
station is needed ,for a now film and fcto factor,- being built near Peking.
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