“The preliminary preparations for the action in the East included first of all the following tasks:
“1. Obtaining of a detailed survey of the Russian armament industry, its location, its capacity, and its associate industries.
“2. Investigation of the capacities of the different big armament centers and their dependency one on the other.
“3. Determining the power and transport system for the industry of the Soviet Union.
“4. Investigation of sources of raw materials and petroleum (crude oil).