2251 it I LA IFICATIO a an -- Approved Igor elesse t9 - GENEY M45b 3 9 31 CENTRAL INTEL IG CE INFORMATION EPORT on NO SUBJECT Guided Missile Factory at Kaliningrad noes 0F RAGES 1 033014 Docurmt tic 00' NO lf- HEEJT PLACE 25X1A63 f E3 N0 0F ENCLS or 3 BELOW '7 1 3 SUPPLEMENTTO REPORTNO 25X1A29 1 According to German prisoners-of-war returned from the Soviet Union guided missiles are being produced in the vicinity of Kaliningrad in the Moscow area The factory lies south of a railway line near a station A second factory located at the same station but north of the railway line produces guns mm implies that the second factory has some con 25X1A2 25X1A63 nection with the fire 11 one not elucidate According to_ it is the factory agrth of the railway which is working-on guided missiles and the one gogth of the station which produces guns 2 The conversion of the first-mentioned plant to the production of V-weapons was be at about the beginning of in any case during the winter of 194 Throughout 1947 the factory workshops and halls were enlarged and machines were installed It is believed that the machines originated in Germany since they had Gennan markings and had been used 3 Belonging to the factory is a camp holding about 1 500 prisonerseef war The number varied however from 1 000 to 2 000 during the construction work According to an unconfirmed report the number of Russian workers was from i 000 to 6 000 It was estimated that there was one German prisoner to ovary three or four Russian workers About 50 German engineers also were employed at this factory Research was done mainly by Germans There unrepossibdy do to 70 Russian engineers or technicians employed there Up to the winter of 194 -43 only a few parts for 0423 but no complete missiles were produced in the factory Parts for delivered from Germany were assembled in the factory and the completed missiles were trans- ported to another location According to another report the completed projectiles were transported to a testing station located in a forest south of Kaliningrad a train on which a Veweapon projector had been mounted had long stood at the factory but was never used There is an airfield south sic of the factory connected to a railway station by a double track line which goes through the factory 0 STATE Ft new 1 AIR 178 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu