ACTIVITIES AT CARL ZEISS, JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001400880001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTREME106711
INFORMATION REPORT
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CIA-RDP80-00810A001400880001-9
Eaxt Germany
Acttvities at Carl Zeissi. Jena
TRIs DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
DC THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE IS, SECTIONS 709
ADD 794, OF TFE D. S CODE, AS AMENDED ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL
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IS PROHIBITED ST LAW TEE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORE IS PROHIBITED.
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1? ?.:orkini?-noCel C2'uni:tionsmuste,r) of the "eeiss infantry ran .!e-finder
(Entfernungsfaesser) t:r e 09 has '1,:yeen made at Zeiss. Jena, and
incica-
.ion: nre that in conies 7-reduction of the item for the
nirct time since 1.1.1;1,? This device is made on the scissors :-rincirles,
with a L...sc-line of centi:setert.,,? The identity a( the purchaser is
unknoun,,
In early ::rxch 19539 L'fccialists fornerl.y omployed in the con-
Ltruction 01 st-Ict:arine net at Jona? The sTecialists
,sero ain1y as.:embly s7ocialists (: onteure) -Liao had mounted such
..i.nstrtnenti. on '.'er.taan the -!..!mr? The 2.1 .ut1n,as con-
(11.!cted on the an rnidentiri.edovict, officer.
';(11:-.nteers for the rro!ram wore re.0.1(:stods, and in answer to a direct
,..ine,stion), it stated th?_-!t the Tro!Tail wel.ild involve Fersonnel
cvin a,.;!ay:.?'-r?,-!,:!m Jena, ? At least one :7:coin:List then declined to join
the ro,!raa? dic locale of the rlr!nned -.co:Tn.:a is unknown.
in early JP:1"Lrir;',".l953 ciss shf.1.--ed ,Eizz or coven 11-1 trai.nin devices
ra!)]. to . ozfet _I!: 23 2C1 in ftravesberj? chirmont war so
jt c a or ii to,Ina-tructi.ons o L 13655, also in Etraussbcrc. The
ore o u t.lolliero(: to a ,-oviet officers (fnu) E3hurakov or
Z.huralovl of 21-. ln late 'Larch 1953, received a ::ire from
the ?.aft cr.an rally:a:ff.', that no such unit ;:ns located in Ltrazsberc
instructions px to.:-Isrm.ltion of th(,:?.
r71.7 13 en 1,:41.1. !latter?
Jena rec,ivo(: an order arch from the -art ,erlan .:uero
Leer irtsc%af't-i-r! -en or it?C'''1E on a rriority basic:
a. l.O:Fre.lc-ols"rinoter
1:0 se! len.-!:re-ls-r olanitr
!hotalLtor, c 17 (used in hoL ital laboratories)
Yic iteigs are
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to be C,A.ivered by Toicr directly to the in erlin?
.7;4 tr:er. the 71neo of ix? '-oonne as chief of the
do7.rt-tent (Leiter .-ertriob). _come I.:as one of a nt:71...er of
efTicials arrested on 22 !arch 13 lyy the .r!ct ernan uthorities.
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Fromm was formerly head of the Jona Labor Office; he then joined
Zeiss, working in various sections nd becana deputy to Woenne.
(RIO Stanke (SLD) is now acting chief of the Zeiss West Zone Bureau
since the arrest on 22 March 1953 of the former chief9 (rim) BuerkerLeil.
60 (Fnu) 1Ieiss1eben9 a spectrochemist normally working on the Alleissi,_4pmp,i
prem1ses9 is actually responsible to the Office for Coods-Testing
(Amt fuer Warenpruefung) in Halle? Heissleben spent four weeks at
the Elektrochemlaches KoMbinat Bitterfeld (B) in early 1953 but
has since returned to his office at Zeiss. The nature of his assignment
at EIB is not known?
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