ZEISS, JENA: CONTRACT WITH CHINESE TRADE DELEGATION; MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL 1NTELLidrN LGEN lf' REPORT NO..
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO..
COUNTRY Genzaviy (.L`u iin :ono) DAM DI SIR. -213 October 1951
SUBJECT .oicc? Jcaac Contract ;:~_?~ ~ C?zwnocc ~~=acic
Dele}ration; :`iscellancous Information
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ACQUIRED milm&.1-i-
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DATE Ot
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a. Technical precision mcasurii ; ins ,r,s.ient~
bo Physical instruuments;
co Microscopes (researc'h and
dp rcoc'etic instrzments,
.croseopes
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la i e represcatat. ves of the Chinese Trade :')eloc;ation visited the 1eiys plant
in Jena bct,uon 10 and 13 Ceptcuubcr 1951 for the purpose of coricl?adinr a
contract for ,ciss instruments for 1951 and 1952? The delef ation i?iao headed
by a :.Ira JFa l He t:ac escorted to Jena by :'811. of the DA
20 The contract amounts to about 12,000,000 rubles, or 9,60 "."000 -'?):.I? bout,
5 pillion rubles of this contract have been awarded to the Telescope D`vysion
of :ciss for about 13,000 field ;,1 ac ses of various t,,-fcs, half of rh.icli arc
to be provided with reticies0* Considerable numbers of instruments are also
to be farm shed under this contract by the folloi.ring Zeiss divisions :
30
50
Cptical and physical
instruments
Technical precision measuring
instruments
CLASSIFICATION
Contracts now outstanding between the Zeiss firm and China total about 16'000,000
rubles, including an order amounting to about 1,500,000 rubles from the four
Chinese scientists who visited Zeiss, Jena in early August 19510**
On 13 Ccnt;c:~aer 12l, :,ciss vray v? sited by the Chinese ambassador and hie
'rife o
In order to be assured of oufPicient rn-cstr.cnt funds from the State for
future production for ckl,verics to the "Peopic c -nocracics", a prospective
productio pia? for the various divisions, has been set up ^or the ;gars 195,2
to 195,5, as follow,
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SL 'ET/COi]TZOL - U?S0 OFFICLILS ONLY
CLIMIL INTEL .I(f111CL : (Z CY
Telescopes
8,160,000 Di!
Ophthalmological instruments
6,459,000 "
Projectors and movie apparatus
0,351,676 "
Surveying instrzncnts
6,109,000 it
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Planned production figures for the following c'ivisions are not yet conplcte
for the sane period as above :
Spce tacles
Photograp iic lenses
Astronomical instruments
7o The official figures for reparations deliveries by Zeiss in 19145 and 1946
are as follows:
1945:
9,093,121
DU
1946:
39,345,724
DM
25X1A * Cor~nent: The Chinese desire reticles of the following shape:
rthe2eas Zeiss nornally makes them in this shape:
25X1A MCor nt: This group allegedly represented various Chinese scientific
institutes.
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