DEVELOPMENTS AT ZEISS, JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007600180007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFO ATION REPORT CD NO.
COU14TRY Gerr ns (Ruas Zone)
SUBJECT Developments at Zeiss, J'o
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1. The last of 200 A-1 type air force training sets ordered by the Husaians
deer: .lagers is amid. to have submitted to the Russians suggestions for
were delivered bv the Zelas fire in Jena, on 15 Jan '.1951. * Eighteen
sets remained in the Soviet Zone of Ge * while the others were shipped .
to the USSR.: The. R ss n' acceptance coiiasion left the plant on 15 January.
an improved version of the A-1 get. Negotiations on this project are still
under way. it is not fret clear whether the new set., if bd1t at all ffi is to
be asanufactu at the Zeiss plant or in the USSR.
In jan ri 1951E Herr Fischer,,. wing director of the Zeiss plants, died
of a `bit attack. Rout to Directar Schrader, vbn mw re atly awarded a
national prizes Fischer wan the oldest a aging &tres rtor of the plant.
It was: dins to his efforts that the Zeiss fixmp in spite of Soviet dim xt l
"and nt 'erenee on, the - part. of the Co uriisst Thuringian government, was
able to Ise. its output considerably.... Herr Ro msel who at assent to in
for six weeksq is to be his successor. that graduate 25X1 C
engineer Vo]l . wtho was attached to the engineering bureau of the fire p
fled to the Westin January 1951 because he feared that he would be contracted
fOr wc k ins theUSSR
Go_.rent:` ;,states that 'athe last two hundred A-i devices
(for the training of aerial gunners) were delivered by Zeiss-Jena to the
Soviets on 6- January. 1951. ra
25X.1 A as `G+assae~ata Since a total of 18 fighter regiments have been observed
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theRussian Zone of Gertz ny it is believed that each of these regiments was
equipped with such a training set, F . the size of the order it may be
info ed- that the Russians have a total of spprurimately 200 righter regiments.
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