ALLEGED RUSSIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN EAST BERLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013600400003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION .
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Alleged Russian Research Institute in
East Berlin
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE.
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE
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PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS. FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR. 2 September 1952
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In April 1952 eleven scientists, a female interpreters and an office staff
of two persons` arrived in East.Berlin from the USSR. There they proceeded
to occupy a'la? ge, two-story building, with surrounding grounds, at Berlin-
Fr,edrichsfelde, Wilhelmstrasse 6.
20 The head of this group of scientists is a Professor 7doeh ik (sic)
(phonetic).
In late April 1952 the house was guarded by the People's Police.
40 The work of these scientists appeared to be carried on in a-greenhouse and
attached conservatory on the grounds;'`The greenhouse contained new garden
tools, an unspecified number of microscopes, and about seven: tall glasses
in which various lants were growing.
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appeared to include potatoes.
and cites the following reasons%
this institute) may
the plants 50X1-HUM
be concerned with agricultural research
a0 Professor Zoshchkin remarked) that the Russian Government 50X1-HUM
was concerned at the eastward spread of the Colorado beetle. He implied
further that the spread of the beetle was one of his current interests.
b. The institute is allegedly working on the cause of a disease that has
affected German workers using cotton imported from the USSR.
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6.
In conneotion with the z esearah' on cotton' a high government officcial9
concerned with the textileindustrya has stated that several hundred
women employed in the cotton mills of Thueringia were taken. ill in
late April 19521-tw6 women died, The symptoms were said to be swollen
lungs and a bluish skin.2
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All the cotton was destroyed when the institute had made its
Investigation.
1,
Comment. This reports on the face of it,, appears improbable 50X1-HUM
since there have been no Russian research institutes in Germany9 aside
from Wismut A.G.,, for many years. 50X1-HUM
2.
Comment.
from 1 February to
3 March 1952, 54 out of 503 employee.1. f Baumwollspinnerei and Zwirnerei
Lengenfeld (VVB Baumwol1spinnerei) were allergic to the cotton and
bevaxae ill. The sympt;ofns_ rt re heada~:;hes9 palms in the limbs and back9
loss of appetite' aiid9 after two or three days, a sudden rise in
temperature to 102.2 ? 103.10 F. Lengenfeld is in Saxony near the borders
of Thuer ingia.
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