EAST GERMANY STEPS UP ARMAMENTS PRODUCTION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600360212-6
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 212
• Publication Date: November 10, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic; Military -Shipments to USSR
Daily newspapers
Berlin; Buenos Aires
10, 15 Sep 1950
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EAST GERMANY STEPS UP ARMANIEIVTS PRODUCTION
ZEISS PLANT TO INCREASE BODSB SIGHT OUTPUT -- Buenos Aires, Argen?cinisches Tage-
blatt, 10 Sep 50
According to repasts from refugees Prom East Germany, the people-owned
Karl Zeiss Optical Plant in Jena has completed production of its first series
of bomb sights, and production, which amounts to 50 sights monthly, is to be
increased.
The people-owned West-Thueringen Textile-Processing Plant in Muehlhausen
has been turning out camouflage nets for tanks and guns, and it is said they
have orders for 100,000 kilograms of these nets.
The fteptun Shipyard in Rostock has been working on general overhauls of
Soviet deatroye,:~.
Refugees from Halle report that a ?meat number of freight care, loaded
with potash, fertilizers, synthetic gasoline, office machines, automobiles,
shoes, acids, sugar, wooden houses, diesel fuel, railroad ties, and brown coal,
have been passing through the Ha11e~Ssale freight station. These trains go=via
Frankfurt~Qder to Brent-Litovsk.
GIANT TRANSFORMER FOR THE USSR -- Berlin, Die Wirtschaft 15 Sep 50
A giant transformer, completed on 6 September 1950 in the people-owned
Transformer Plant (VEX) in Berlin-Oberschoeneweide, is slated for shipment to
the USSR.
The 165-ton transformer, when fully mounted is 14, meters long and 5 meters
in width and height. Including the mount for transporting it, the transformer
weighs 265 tons and is 36 meters long. A special 18-axle car will be used to
ship the transformer.
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The transformer has a capacity of ]15,000 kilovolt-amperes and can trans-
farm 220,000-volt current to 710,000 volts and also to 10,000 volts. The
115,000-kilovolt-ampere capacity is adequate for the requiremeata of A tosm
frith a population of 400,000: The efficiency of the transformer is over 99
percent, meaning that less than 1 percent Brill be lost in the transforming
process. It takes 16 ventilators to cool the transformer while in operation.
To carry out the cooling process, 2,000 steel pipes have been welded into
the top of the transformer, and the ventilators blow cold air through these
pipes at a speed of 36 meters per second. The four 220,000-volt insulators,
which are 2 meters long, will remain mounted while transported, but the four
110,000-volt insulators w111 be shipped separately.
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