MANUFACTURE OF A-1 AERIAL GUNNERY TRAINING DEVICES AT ZEISS JENA.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000500050002-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSI ICKrION
CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 25~
INFORMATION REPORT
.UU RY East Germany/Poland/China
SUBJECT Manufacture of A-i Asrial Gurrrory Training
Devices at Zeiss Jena.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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THIS DOCU*ENT q;ONTAINIe INRORNAYIUA AFFECTU U THE HATIUMAL DETEMyF
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANIND OP 71TLE 18. SECTIONS 74L
ANO 744, OP THE !f S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL
A71ON Of ITS CONTENTS TO OM RECEIPT SY AN UNAUTHORILSG PERSON
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Cari Ze~. se , Jena, has comnle ted delivers of the 1952 order for 79 I--1
aerial gunnery training devices to the R.u :sia.ns, brit the last one (number 79)
was retained ;t ;ei3s or Further :develnnrnent; it is to serve as a m_de
ror the 1953 contract. Of the unite delivered to the Russians, fire
(nuc!bera 74-?1q'. -vere delivered to Strausberg, eaaw of
3erlin,, "-umbf-r 79 is riot to bLt altered fL-acticnal . y I.It it to 1.e ir>I: -rved
structu=?al 7r as far as no^r ,ible, i ,e, by the substitution of betl,er ! aterials
t,Prourhnrr+ wh'r *qer nc i3ib1e.. 1 r
;,. In addition tr, the 135 .a-1. d: vices to be delivered by -e-.L.;5 to the 17;.:;i
in 1953, 30 sets of spare parts are also to be lelivered ar Follc
a,`? S each 'or the 1953 series, and
b, i each for the 1952 series
3._ Altt-ouPh D.S. UnI'mirov o" the Soviet Trade T)elega.t.ion in 3c_1in t "first
ha- ;Dist - r. at A-1 device number 79 be tect-run at Zeus for 1,"0 } hours,
he has since :greed that a 500 hour test will be sub E v This was
agreed upon at a r-eting between 2ea.~s representatives and ,admi.rov and one
other unidentified Soviet o'ficial from tho Ru ;sian Trade Jelega.t..:i._an curing,
the reek of 5 January 1953,
r're.}enf, opinion at Zeiss is that there will be no deliveries of the ir-2
dev_' ce: in 1953, although it is r,os-4ible that a mr?del will be ronsLruct.ed,
5,, The Russians have still not agreed to permit China r.d t : place order3
:?_r Aai devices with ':eiss, although bot}' countries have exnressed i_nteres
in doing so? In any case, Zeiss would not be able to make delivery of any
gets to these countries because canacity is at present only su.."ficxent.
fill the order ror 1.5 for the U','-3)R.
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Zeiss has submitted various bids to the Soviet Reparations authorir.U.es
for reparations c .retracts in 1953,, 0n such cuntract has been signed
with Zeiss for a total of 2060000 DME worth of precision measuring
instruments to be used in technical laboratories concerned with machine
tool construction. The 3CC is further demanding delivery from Zeiss of
an order for miscellaneous instruments.of various kinds in the amount
of 1,,2009000 DME destined for Poland This order is to include medical
instruments, e,g-, thE?.antofose (ale)!, The order has not fret been signed
It is thought at Zeiss that there will in fact be no direct reparations
deliveries to Poland in 19539 but that the USSR will re-export to Poland
par;:? of the goods it receives as reparations from the DDR,.
7? Discussions were held on 16 January 1953 between Zeiss representatives
and (frru) Diebenkorn9 Chief of the Optical Section of. DIA-Feinae,chanik~:
Optik3 regarding details of orders for large amounts of instruments,
inciuiAng surveying instruments., wanted by China. At present, Zeiss is
delivering far more instruments to China than to Poland.
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