Letter from T.H. Tetens to Richard Olbetter, July 09, 1947 - page 1

г Mr. Richard 01b ©ter V/ar Crimea <>K Civil Affairs Division Y/ar Department Pentagon Building Washington, D.C. ! г H', i 3545 223 Street Bayside, Long Island Tel. (home): Bayside 9-1258 'el. (office) : ^£o. 7-8603 :t. 202 July 9, 1947 Re: Preliminary Report on the Chemnyco files in л the Office of Allen Property Warehouse at 27 Cliff street, New York City. Dear Mr. Olbeter: Out of about 240 large file boxes of Chemnyco records, we have checked fifty boxes thus far. ^he general picture Is this: Chemnyco acted as an Intelligence agency of I.G. Farben in every field of economics and politics in the United States. There are thousands of its folders contain¬ ing important technical data, reports, blueprints, formulas, etc. We have put aside for you folders containing correspon¬ dence between Chemnyco and the I.G. Farben-Wehrmacht head¬ quarters, Berlin N.W. 7— ~ln which are listed, with exact dates, all reports that were transmitted to the German in¬ telligence. These reports cover all of Chemnyco Ts activities from Industrial esp< ohage to general economic and political intelligence. The folders contain printed material including statistics and maps on the details of river navigation and regulation, hydroelectric projects such as the Bonneville Bam, harbor installations, strategic areas of industrial production and mining regions. There are also a large number of folders containing clippings and other sources information on personalities in American business and politics. We have extracted letters that prove that I.G. Farben fs policy was to make It "unattractive" to the Hercules Powder Corp. to create a new plant for a modern nitrogen process.