INFORMATION REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011800300007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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51 aiieren, area bubo S" on t ,~c a.c i ~:1.: of ? ^ for
which rase iingredie.nts are ne(cessary, are, no longer avai'_able
The computing offices of Zeiss have removed such kinds of
glass from the computing tables,. IIE to"__" one of the special
ingradieni.s was delivered formarl-,! by 'Czechosiova.ki_a to
Schott, one of the main glass suppliers to Zeiss. Now, how-
ever f Rdtei imports have been discontinued, despite, the fact
that Zeiss Jena personnel know tAat Rf tel is being exported
from Czechoslovakia to the West German Schott: works at
Oberzwiesel,
2. Zeiss production is seriously hampered by a shortage of non-
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errous me i~a:~s ,, uI_:;,metall) ;,
Cond,-ns.::'s . i. F special equipment for the forming of lenses
with strong curvatures, are another shortage They were sent
to Russia when Zeiss was dismantled, The plant"s efforts to
reconstruct the equipment have been unsuccessful thus far,
Currently, strongly curved. lenses are formed by hand-
4 I` Kanad.abalsamll s a special kind of mastic used to glue senses
of equal curvature togeth.er', is entirely lacking, -"'antic:
used for such gluing has to be v~r-y consistent, transparent,
and heat and weatherproof, stored suprlies of mastic with the
appropriate qualities have been exhausted., and the material is
not available in east Germany
such. aut.oriatic equipment as stencils and presses was dismantles;
by the 2ussians and thus far has not been repolaced~
6. Zeiss also suffers from a serious shortage of skilled personnel,
c"J^"ciali tNv v, y in the
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