PROJECTS CONDUCTED AT ZEISS, JENA, AND ZAVOD 393, SORKI

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• Publication Date: October 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SUBJECT
East Germany/USSR
Projects Concluc;t;d at Zeiss,
Zavod. 393, Sorki
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE,
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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a. Component parts for an. electro-mechanics fire control appar',tiis for use
with fused projectiles. This was, for some unknown reason, built a* a
more or less laboratory model. It possibly could have been the Condmand
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b. Component parts for a smaller computer for use
with n6n-fused projectiles. This had the type
esi ation VIS-MU and
was never used by the armed, oroes.
e. Various component assemblies for fire control
eauivment for the Navy Department.
Component parts for a gyroscopically stabilised
tank sight.
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took over ZEISS, JENA. sec on, V-1 had its
designation changed to KOV, (KONSTRUKTION Oder
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No. 14., which was pa on.e
group was Walter BERMS . Gexeral . NIKOLAYEV was
head of an adiacent laboratory in which no Germans
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..were allowed. This laboratory adjoined that of Prof.
GOERLICH. t the end of
December 1948, a. ermans were segregated
in one part of the plant.
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a. Reconstruction of part of the
at Zeiss.
projects.
wo'k pePormed
Development work on various jigs for the Soviet
copy of the Leica camera ) which was being produced,
at SORKI.
a. Development of aerial camera shutters. Nothing
new or startling in. design in evidence in
these shuttgre.
d. Development of a conventional ',type of drier for
aerial photographic megai Ives.
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25X1 e. Construction of certain component parts.
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25X1 '`f. Construction of the mechanleal parts of a simplified form OL
fire control com uter
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Construction of a panorama type. of camera for trench use, No
new design features were incorporated in this device..
Construction alectroni plifier for the tau-metier.
5.
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ZEISS, Jena during World War II. were collected and taken to SORKI
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all passive devices. Machining cu ties were experienced in',
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6. There apparently was no lack of precision measuring instruments,
They had all been Jaen from ZEISS JENA and were in good condition,.
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were used had come from Moscow. and performed fairly Satisfactorily.
25X1 The group brought their own stocks of materials from Z EISS, 7ena9
such as stainless steels, bronzes, drill rod, electrical wire, etc,
A particular size of
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was difficult to obtain. cio constantan or maganin low
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large backorders of enameled copper wire from USSR catalogs
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but
was the policy of all Soviet factories to make their own eaui,o-
ment, so untold man,-hours were utilized in this work
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Comments' This report jc t-norr , llv confirms the 1~nf'or-
ma on ve _Jae we-i,? as presenting addil.onal
,,details. There as still no a n: a that PbS photocellaj
or any other kind of photocells y are bir,in p ` iuced at Zavod 393.
It can be more or less `assumed that whorever OOERLICH is :located.,
K'e will be associated with photocell development. It seema not
unlikely that the Soviets possibly disappointed with the development
of the PbS ool.l at Zavod 393, exit now allowing the GOERLICH group f
little more freedom in this development program at ZEISS,j Jena+ The
comment on the inability to get low temperature
coefficient of resistance wire would seem to, indicate a ?posSible
bottleneck in the precision resistor supply in the USSR.
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