CHANGE IN OPTICAL INDUSTRY BELIEVED RESULT OF REARMAMENT NEEDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000290005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECT
CENTRAL I
NTELCL RCJ'X(0 ' -0H
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Chance in Optical Industry Believed Result of
Rearmwoent Needs
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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of ?a :ya?x'..e product or of a few products only. It is cor,!monly beLaeVed.
is t ope ati ng.. In the near future more works affiliated wiLh W B Cptik xwii.
f. ~a ta.. th ~ckir,i.tli r.z'a io.ca of Zeiss, Jena; for instance, the VVB Optik
,re :s en )WY.. Lach of these works under Zeiss will have its on works
. ?i o , W to Will be responsible to the Zeiss main direction, Lnlarge..
na;sa p - of .:e ,tra..izatioc of the optical industry under the dena iorks will t e;
,ru:l a:~r-r.7u~l.rr accompanied :a;;? a decentralization of production, It is
D). aany d x as ., ea;h of he works under Zeiss will specializo in tae p:~oduct ?n
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:) to i,i.vce ha bccn no regu- ar s .l es (disposii.ion } office
.:. e2`=! ax', 2t VEB Cary. Zeiss, Jena. Dr, (fnu) Berg 1 -as so far b en '
or: nr r.ez Yv? of the 11L.i4po D)DR'f staff In the near future 2. well-staffed
DDIR, a 'ficc is to be created under Berg' a direction. bince nothing in
w. ~ s..,.l.e=a s:(,aa ..i.ora of the works tends to justify such a c'.:hange. it is be..
that the DDE sales office will be t corer
aar, au.an~y: .,;. Ies to East German cus~tomers; i, e.,, the new of '_ cc will be
J w r~ .t 'ec ml.1...,.tax?y department of the works.,
f n:rr~ h otrrding ,x. tap points- in the same direction. The '?eiss works has al-
a. under its authority branch works in Drr-.sden-Reick lrrojec:t-
~.. a d v i;icai, equipment), in Saalfeld (Optical equipmen-1) and
b i;aaa ?; the. la'^,er 'works were established at the end of 1952 but are not
that this move aims at freeing the Jena corks from produc
s production capacity in the production of arm mexat equip-
:c,es;3o4 3- a.AC b -produr ts; thus the Jena works will be able to invest a
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