UK MANUFACTURED BATTERIES POSSIBLY USED IN SPUTNIKS I AND II

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: USSR
• Keywords: SOVIET UNION
• Keywords: SOVIET
• Keywords: SPUTNIK
• Keywords: BATTERIES
• Collection: Intelligence Warning of the 1957 Launch of Sputnik
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0000124295
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: September 22, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2017
• Case Number: F-1990-01132
• Publication Date: November 22, 1957

psEPARED AND DISSCM NATED B'.
tai /1WmunttuW"3 Batteries ?beaibl,7 Used In
gpadrzlks I and It
1. April 177, a yell ember Or ncmnwy battery pacts vote shipped from an
t battery aaaufecturing eaepapr to the Soviet tiii. ~SO~ate does sot
bsov the e,act amber oC batteries sbippedj It is the eaeesoeus cc this
company's ergcaaim, res .reber, and foaeigx and t1T eoUaWmm that
these tatterteo va:e coed as the power so res for transmitters in Sputniks
-~ is based on the fdll0ain6:
I aced II. Tile edu *ted c-L3L
a. rear the relatively asnLU nosier CC batteries chipped, it
vas obrioae that the ett t would be either *Verimntal
or for a specific application.
b. The batteries -es* of a size and type that could 1c te.Ut
be need in the Sputniks
c. Th esa the Sorfets haw perfected a recbarysebla load or a
sUrer w1# battery, nercary batteries weld probably tore
been used. YYoa iofor+at.ine available to these people, the
;orlats do sot .. ca j batteries nor have they
perfected sheer oxide or reeEorCnadle lead batteries.
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