EXPORT PRECISION INSTRUMENTS TO SATELLITES; GET ROLLED PLATE FROM USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700010653-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 653
• Publication Date: October 18, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY German Democratic Republic DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR
SUBJECT Economic - Foreign trade
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Berlin; Chemnitz
DATE
12 Jun - 16 Aug 1951
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE German
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EXPORT PRECISION INSTRUMENI."S TO SATELLITES;
GET ROLLED PLATE FROM USSR
EXPORT PRECISION INSTRUMENTS -- Berlin, Taegliche Rundschau, 14 Aug 51
Under existing foreign-trade agreements, microscopes and physical
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ands Curing instruments the Potsdam precision and opticaldindustries,Bulgaria,
The people-owned Optical Shops are working day and night to complete
large research microscopes ordered by China at the Leipzig Spring Fair.
The privately owned Schrader and Company in Babel erg issworkingsonuments
export orders exclusively. This firm manufactures physical n
for oil and coal research, for shipment to China and other Satellite countries.
TO USE PLATE IN SHIP CONSTRUCTION -- Chemnitz, 'volksstimme, 13 Aug 51
At the beginning of August, a large shipment of rolled plate was un-
loaded by the Soviet steamer Krymov at Rostock harbor. The metal is to be
used in the construction of merchant ships for the German Democratic Republic.
EXPORTS TOY TF:?INS -- Berlin, Taegliche Rundschau, 16 Aug 51
The RFT Geraetewerk (Radio and Telecommunications Equipment. Works)
in Chermnitz has completed another of 1,000 electrical toy trains, for
Czechoslovakia.
EXHIBIT PRODUCTS AT PRAGUE FAIR -- Berlin, Taegliche Rundschau, 12 Jun 51
The pavilion of the German Democratic Republic at the 1951 Prague Fair
was among the most widely attended exhibits. Specialists and visitors to the
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fair were particularly interested in the optical instruments of the Zeiss Works
(Jena). Great interest was also shown in dishes and kitchenware made of heat-y the resistant Jena glass. The products exhibited byth great iA(Food and Beverage
Processing Machines) enterprise were
A machine for shaping 1,600 kilograms of dough into various kinds of bakery which
produce goods articu arrattention ofhBrat stvi,wthe Czechoslovvak cconsumersT' chour o perative.
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large a 90 000ismallatabletscanshour alsoudrewlattention andhwase ,000the Spofand
(United Pharmaceutical Plants) enterprise. A newly developed mina natu re rail-
way, and a superspeed flashgun with a flash duration of 1/5,000 of a second, as
well as an 800-watt short-wave transmitter, special radio tubes, and an AC super-
heterodyne radio receiver with push-button control, six wave bands and nine
stages were also exhibited.
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