TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013900060001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASS I F I CATION ISFCR T/C0I '`OL OFFICT -Imy
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
REFEr
COUNTRY Pola -,DO NOT CIRCULATE DATE DISTR. 9 September 1952
SUBJECT Telecommunication Industry NO. OF PAGES 2
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The Production of radio, telephone and. telegraph equipment is supervised by the
Central Administration for the , lectrical Industry I,Centralny Zarzad.Przemyslu
lektrycznego), al. Staling, Dom.Erecsona, Warsaw. This office issues
directives and approves pl s and projects which are worked out byte Tele-
riadiokomnianikac,d_jnego TIR) The technical division of this directorate is
located at ul. Ratuszowa 10, Warsaw, while the administrative offices. are at
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The two greatest technical experts within the DPTIRw.e an engineer named Ftutriik
d another engineer who received part of his training in Massachusetts..
.The largest factory for the pr.odction of radio and radio-telephone sets is the
State Tele Radio Technical. Works at ul. Grochowska 33~, Warsaw, which employs
approximately 1,500 workers. This factory also produces field telephones. The
equipment manufactured at this factory is produced from both Polish and Soviet
,11rawings and plans.
The State Radio Receiver Factory (Panstwowa Fabryka Radio-odbiornikow) at
Dzierzomi.ow employs approximately 500 workers and in 1950 produced about
1,.000 radio receivers per month. Most of the sets which are assembled here
are the four-tube Pioneer type, These sets are manufactured; at this plant
under a license agreement made with the Swedish Gas Accumulator Co. (Svenska
Akiiebo.laget Gasaccumulat.or-A.G..A) of Sweden in 1945/46.
Radio tubes are produced in the former Philips factory at Ka1olkowO45. 3- /d'$ e
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.such countries.as Sweden. There has been, and perhaps still is, some import
of finished radio tubes from Eung .ry
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Underground: cables.are produced, mainly Polish Cable (Kobel Polski.) ig
Irakow, also by a smaller factory in Bydgoszcz and by Norblin in Warsaw.
Finished radio transmitter,8 (short wave) are purchased mai: ly from A,,G.A. in.
Sweden. The UB (Security $olice) and the Air Force are the main consumers.
interference transmitters have been. purchased from England,, Ship's radios have
been purchased In Sweden, Rolland, and to a limited extent,,Denmar. k.
Foreign trade involving electrical equipment is handled by the state-controlled
firm., Electrum, al.. Pulawska, Warsaw. The director general is Knothe, an
engineer and specialist in high current. The vice director is Sell, a specialist
in low current who is from the Poznan region and who was employed in a.Siemens
p m't' before the war.
The UB controls all shortwave senders, including those. of diplomatic posts
.abroad.. The UB, which has its own radio workshops, has bought several foreign
radio parts through Electrum.
Radio Poland (Radio Polski) plays a unique role in the government.
the Ministry of National Defense transmits its orders to foreign countries
t,hr Radio Poland.(sic). Radio Poland. has its own repair shops on ul. Polua
(s?c). Warsaw. Technical experiments are conducted in Raszyn (R53/P98) which is
carefully carded and.''has a very large radio.sender. The Raszyn sender is
located in an area completely covered with trees and so isolated that it__ was:
not possible to observe anything of importance either from the road or from.
LOT a s airport. Radio Poland empl s a large numaer of independent specialists,
including;Soviet citilian persons
2. Comment o According to.a decree dated 2 August 1953 te,d.io Poland
was placed under the administration of the )1 nistry of Post and Telegraph-
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