DEVELOPMENT OF A WIRE RECORDER AT VEB FUNKWERK KOEPENICK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004600780003-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

SUBJECT Development of a Wire Recorder at VEB
Funkwerk Koepenick
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
Ing of the Espionage I&". Title 18, U.S.C. Seca. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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During the Leipzig Fall Fair in 1952, Funkwerk Koepenick exhibited a
Drahtdiktiergerset (wire recorder) which drew the attention of State President
Wig ] eli.eek. The model exhibited in Leipzig, however, was not in good running
condition. Pieck expressed interest in an improved version, Department
TEN (development of low-frequency instruments). of Funkwerk Koepenick, under
the direction of Ing. Willy Geissler was charged with the further developf6rnt
of the device.
In early June 1954, Pieck requested information on the progress made. Fxu kwerk
k;epeniek reported that the development was not yet completed. Thereupon,
Pieck sent Professor Staneck (fnu)l of EFEM, Berlin-Oberschoeneweide, and a
professor of the Dresden Technical University, to Funkwerk Koepenick in order to:
investigate the causes of the delay in development. Staneck found out and reported
to fleck that practically no progress had been made since 1952. The wiring of
the instrument was badly constructed and the wire itself suffered from torsion.
In order to solve the development difficulties, Department TEN decided to buy a wire
recorder dismantle it and resume development, using it as a ma25X1
3. Up to ,Tune 1954, 300,000 DME had been spent by Department TEN for the development
of a Wire recorder.
CoaCtient: Also reported as Prof.Dipl. Ing. Josef Stanek.
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17 August 1954
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