SOVIET ELECTRONIC AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
'INFORMATION REPORT
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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COUNTRY USSR/Germany (Soviet Zone) REPORT NO.
SUBJECT Soviet Electronic and, DATE DISTR. .18 August 1953
Television Developments
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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The tubes from OSW, Berlin., had Soviet designations,,
and approximately- O per cent were returned because of
faults.
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Leningrad. in the
ns ?,u , off, w ere the 0 series (first of any lot) was constructed.
e.04 wexe magnetrons,in addition to ioanosaopes. Walter HA98, depart-
litut, i gineer, j chief of the High Vacuum Department in Ad3,ershof,
ilk ivo tt],y working. on ioono,sOsp? development and research at Adlssshel,
b0b14twrint.,,~ast Zeno dues not have this tube yet. He was placed in
s "''e.t this sma l f approximately ten engineers.
Ia the middle of 1951 and sum er ,
l952 CKERT from 08W- Joined Adlershof as ataaootatthtan. He
is a msmb,r.of the Aoademy.of Soienoe, Berlin. He is a specialist
en pholp-omlis,cont;aining seoon44ry' emission multipliers. H.
developed hie own type of scanning device while at OSW,whioh was
purchased by.Adlershsf. At the Heinrich Hertz Institute, he worked
with 1?ref.; .HALE&G, a consultant in the same field. This photo-
cell is .being ..de 'eloped' fur hsr . ~y these two. Adlershof received
its,, scanning tubas from OSW* in 1951-52 OWdepended on Weisswasser,
near Gerlitztfor the glass. Wher personnel left the Weisswasser
plant for ;the West Z.ene, ' OSW had to look _,elsewhere..for this glass.
A TMA Di of.. CSW, was the glass .blower. who made the intricate portions
of the, glass tube for Dr. ..ECKERTO O compared the ioonosoope
developed by Dr. ECKERT with the ioonosoope made by P.rnseh A.G.,
Darmstadt. it very primitive and not as goad as the one
made by Dipi. Ing. HASS. It should take another two years for the
East, Zone Adlershof to develop an ioonosoope as good as 1 of
Perneeh A.0., Darmstadt. We is' mainly'bioause of inexperienoe
_Joopied th USA type without an icenosoope camera, using a cathode
Day tube. Lee diagramq page ; 67 This was used in Adlerehef as late
as December 19,5i,because the iconoecope for the camera was not yet
developed, Flying spot scanner techniques were not used in the USSR
notrfly AdlersnoltQaay, cuzi_tney were used in 1937 in Germany.
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Zo.ecew...b.lamed 40..:km. .ta_Fiya&ino
!:bht ,.Y type" . antenna..
a'r..: sin
OSW. and called the-
_j This equipment came from Saoheenwerke
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to Ridlber near readen, Germany. This plant is.presentl.'also
manufacturing the "Leningrad" TV receiver for the USSR0
Par glide bombs, the be inning (in 1945) was at Pernseh GMbH
Tannwald (leer rnounttinSudsntenland, Germany. Prior experiments
(1943-4) of, the glide bombs were held at Peensmuende, Gsrmanyounder
the German Post Office. Approximately 200 cameras for these glide
bombs were removed gnd hidden;mainly in West Germany (1945). In
1951~the Secret Department o? the TV Institute in Leningrad con-
tinued to work on the German TV camera, under the chief, Zakhar,ov (tau).
In the opinion of up GermaneqO the Soviets did not further develop
this TP oamera)beoauee they could not ask us questions as we would
then know that they were working on it.. In East Germany
perhaps Germans and Soviets are working on TV for military purposes,
but this ie merely a personal opinion.
the Soviets may have given TV a high priority, but this is pure
conjecture
the USSR was developing telecasting for
Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Sverdlovsk. Perhaps Adlershof oentrum.
will be the fifth station
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beamed to the"Stadthaus*
where-it was 4emoct tcife&
from +he'decimeter" fregtA ev-c j
to %-e "vne'ter"fresu-e ncy,
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