PRODUCTION AT FACTORY 393 AT KRASNOGORSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002000690007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY USSR (Moscow Oblast)
SUBJECT Production at Factory 393 at
Kras nogorsk
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
USAF review completed.
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within thq 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.
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observed at Factory 393
20 ltugust 1953
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As far as could be determined, the machines consisted almost entirely
of dismantled equipment from Zeiss, Jena. The machines were the
standard types found in any similar o t* al equipment plant. The
total number of machines is unknown The condition of the
machines was excellent since the German specialists had supervised the
installation and necessary reparations. The German specialists were
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It was
assumed that the small cameras were used in research an for
the civilian market. Aerial cameras and photogrammetric equipment
were probably sent to the Soviet Air Force. Kinotheodolites were
renaired for various military units
(periscope production
No periscopes were manufactured at Factory 393, A large lathe used
for that purpose had been transported from Jena to the plant, but
it remained outside for a long period of time and was not used.
Later it was transported to a destination unknown A number
of partially finished tubes for periscopes had been taken from
Jena but were used for lamp posts in the Cultural Parke Later
the tubes were removed when a requirement for special tubing, to
be used in the construction of several colimators for use in the
plant, could not be fulfilled from the plant supply. While the
lathe was in the plant area, the German specialists and Soviet
supervisors often commented, "Here is this expensive machine outside,
unprotected from the elements; what a waste of materiel.." It is
possible that the machine was sent to Leningrad to one of the
optical plants located there. Units of the Soviet Navy are based
at Leningrad, so it is possible that periscopes are produced in
one of the optical plants.
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