RUSSIAN PURCHASES AT ZEISS WORKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010500300004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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;;n1I,nr1 St nanov visited the Zeiss '!forks in Jena on 5 December
and avar_ accomp. hied by an unidentified .mia,,jorc This 50X1-HUM
sas the first time " nov had visited 4038.
50X1-HUM
e lnontra.c to Zeiss for 79 A-1 aeria
7aaa~ aF~ t?rain-+na devices, aloe cable read "Auftrag erteiltj bereitet Fertigung
ovo l o Zeiss is to commence delivery of these item in August 1952s and the
-3e i:_ eery of all. 79 units is to be accomplished by December 1952. (k nu)
?ai.t,3_er will probably be responsible for the production program, while
:1 na Lelmrich will supervise the final ;roduation stages (Fertigung).
:. ;Fnik Heimrieh was the Zeiss delegate to a group of engineers who spent p>eptember
i n :~ch.alf' of tk-e DDR Ministry of Mae iin 0cnstru ,tien., ifelmr.!.cb, who returned
to Jena early in December 1951, has recently made inquiries at Zeiss concerning
to possible production of the A-2 aerial training device, He was informed
i.`ri: ?, the:,, plans were still on Dr.. Hugo 6chrade's desk, but that Zeiss would
prof)ably take over the production, wit.out, however, using the services of
Or, hillgers, the esi. nr;: f,^ of the A-i.
4, Uur ng November 1951, Zeiss received inquiries through the DIA from propec-
ti=:t: Soviet and Polish buys (.i.,e?, .f2r export contracts), concerning the
pos ;:i: die delivery of sounding K vices vices (t''cho L ote) c Zeiss informed these
cor.'espondents that the concern has never m;.de this type of instruments.,
In October 1951, two Russian officials from Siemens and 8.alske (SiG Kahel)
in Zw init?1,, Saxony, male inquiries of eiss as to the possibility of buying
devices for photographing the bottom of the sea, :Dipi.:, ng. Walter Fischer
tta:nded the discussion. Zeiss has never made these devices
5 y"lhe a the diamond die depe~r tment of Zeiss Eras moved from its previous location
he Zeiss works to the Mdwerk on a , 7ro, :'1mately 1. November 1951, the old
i,_ e iaises of the diamond die plant were taken over by the Ktro E.ack department.
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