1. VEB FUNKWERK KOEPENICK PERSONNEL AND PRODUCTION DIFFICULTIES 2. SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE NEW MEDDO RADAR DEVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007900130003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 16, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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COLMM East Germany
DATE DISTR. 16 September 1955
SUBJECT 1, VEB Funkwerk Koepenick Personnel and NO. OF PAGES 30
NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
was placed under the collective responsibility of a group of engineers.
service with the KVP. The Amt fuer Warenkontrolle (Office for Goods
Control) wanted to hire young mechanics who were offered an initial salary
of 460 DME per month. In the field of orders for marine radio equ'jmea'i~
Production Difficulties
2. Specifications for the New Meddo Radar Device
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2. In March and early April, the situation at the plant was Lather confused,
especially in the field of development work. Leading development
engineers ought of going to West Germany. Many
technici ,:the Koepenick radio engineering plant
had alrea
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ed to make the work done at the radio
englne"erln p~arit` unpro a. le. Development work on the Meddo equipment
tment for "Technische Entwicklungsplanung"
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works directo
established-A'
was chief o e
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of the TE,
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4. In early May, > }" a dismissal notices given
morale of the workers and employees Improved.
recruitment campaign for the KVP aid 25 young wor
j$ appeared that the TEF (technical';
1d be employed to capacity in 1
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6. In A ril, work on the report of the ljddo equipment was to b ed.
fields of development work the situation was still rather confused,
partly because of the vacillating piiicies of the Ministry of the
The report had been ordered by the Interior Mi but
repore result of the first tests were to be completed in late
February 1955. Development work on this equipment still had project
No. K-5-28.
it was inferred from a statement made b ngineers t
? S viets were interested in this report/ h
% sed by the effici
Interior. In view of this unsatisfactory stttation1 devel ,Lnt
technicians" t r with the set. The tests,were also
yield data for if ment of the antenna. By a Inter
Ministry had no ecision on the project. Ma
the design for d been completed and t itse
to the British model Decca
wps under construe nna was of the
8. According to a plan received
? / included 128,000 1
project I
earmarked for use by the KVP a
a visual indicator.
to the building of two Mew ddo s
building of these two sets was
GVS and was followed by an exc
this occasion, a maximum number of
TET Depa
roject No.
e second item had
on mark. Project No. K-5.?29 referred
ter the K-5-28 prototype,. Work on the
in March. The sets were said to be
were to be prov#ded with
9. In April the security regulations in force for the development of the Meddo
equipment were tightened. The new pland and the last results of tests were
made known only to a small circle of experts of political reliability. The
records related to the further development of the equipment which were
bein g kept under reference No. K-5-30 were only accessible to Scheuer,
Mundte, Scheil, Ebert and -some leading development engineers., All the
records were treated as classified material.
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5. The pr of the` eloped Meddo set, an
radar, ed at Koepenic "'*after the completion a
minor cations were necessary after these tests1
oepenick radio engineering plant sug to the
Memo set be subjected to = land tests at
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LAO. In the laboratories of the following
information was availab the new a ddo set:
a. The set will probably be equipped with two pu se-recurrence
frequencies. One of these frequencies was fixed at 2,000c/s.
b. Purposely,the maximum range of the set was limited to 12 sea
miles.
c. The greatest stress was to be r1.id on highest possible range
measuring exactness.
d. The equipment waj to be provided with two visual indicators, one
e,, r.
and lighter construction units.
the p
of t
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11. Work on the manufacture of the high-po eivers~ which was discontinued
in the winter of 1954/55ywas resumed i 1955. The calibration-
voltrge regulator (Eichspannungsteiler " has been delivered to the
Soviets. The calibration-voltage re
by 31 April as scheduled, because I
engineering plant,
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highest requirements of exactness, while the
rve as rough indicator.
ng condidered if it was advisable or not to have
s transmitter-receiver u}lit into several. smaller