NEW US ZONE GERMAN METEOROLOGICAL PERIODICAL CRITICIZED

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600360614-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 614
• Publication Date: December 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY, USSR; Germany DATE OF
INFORMATION 1948
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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT Scientific -Geophysics, meteorology
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PUBLISHED Bimonthly periodical
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PUBLISHED Leningrad
DATE
PUBLISHED Sep 1948
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A new meteorological periodical, The Meteorolo ical Review, has been pub-
lished in the US Zone of Germany since the end of 19 7 by Dr Karl Keil. The
editor's foreword to the first number of this periodical, written by Dr L.
Weikman, director of the German Weather Service (in the US Zone), states that
it is published by decree of the US military command.
At the same time, Weikman emphasizes repeatedly that The Meteorological.
Review must be an independent scientific periodical. He also notes that war
has confronted meteorologists with a number of new problems, with which we
must agree. But we cannot agree with Doctor Weikman when he states that crush-
ing Fascist obscurantism is only "Sa elimination of false (:) political teach-
ings which disturb (:) the ,joint life of peoples of the world." It is very dif-
ficult to imagine how the new scientific periodical can actually be independent
when the director of the German Weather Service has such a "liberal," one might
say, outlook ot} Nazi misanthropic doctrines. We find some confirmation of-this
on the first page in this touching statement: "Our memoirs are devoted to the
many meteorologists and associates who were killed or inured in i