ATOMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN KELASURI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900270011-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR (.Georgian SSR)
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1. A location sketch of t>>e
was obtained. Further de
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came , o 1f sari it e y l to Ir0 *3~"-?s
a precision mechanic. The chief of the institute was r"rofessor hertz. (-d'nu) .
anfred von Ardenne, although staying nearby on the Black Sea coast, did not
work at the institute in 1948.
institute. Work was being done with uranium and fluoride. The uranium used
came from Germany. unloaded uranium, packed in cans,
ho-1s existed in the arctic re ',i 0YY'"."
air from h_os cow. It was rumore
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learned from eng
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Q'omment. For location and. layout sketch of the institute in Kelasuri, see
Annex. The data on this sketch a free. with available i.nformatiori. It was men-
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tallation consisted of two separate
worked in the southern plant of the instal-
based on first-hand observations and
The statement that work was being
cate that experiments for the separa-
fusion were made at the institute.
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3. All Germans in the area knew that the installation was an atomic research
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