MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION FROM CARL ZEISS, JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200240004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 28, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTR. 28 March 1952
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1. Prod:.tion of spectrographs and difficulties in obtaining, quartz for them
at Zeiss, J'e
2) Tyrol quartz is the most difficult of the raw materials for these
instruments for Zeiss to obtain.
3) Zeiss intended to conduct tests of optical properties in Switzerland
and to import through Italy and Hungary..(1)
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b The quartz s ectreaph ' Qu 12f9 25X1
1) In August 1951 Zeiss considered starting manufacture of their pre w'ar
spectrograph ''I u 12" again. "Qu 121 had been designed for light metal
analysis. (There was also the "Qu: 21 for steel and a model "Qlz G 55111.
with better dispersion).
2) It was decided that lack of quartz was a strong reason against starting
manufacture again. Zeiss would have had enoug4-, of the necessary quartz
for the production of',,only a very sm).ll number of ingtnment 952 .;_--:-
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New distribution section for d1. oad. dxawin: stones
a. A new C' 1 Zeiss sales and distribution section was set up in October 1951.
headed by one Peitsche, this section was to be primarily for the distribution
of diambnd drawing stones, Lagersteine (sic),and. diamond. tools.
b. This new section is to be called Abteilung fuer Sondererzeugnisse (Division
for Special Products) (abbreviated to Seu).
Possilsle further msnufacture of A-1 (2)
In late October 1951, the direction of Carl Zeiss informed the departments
concerned that delivery dates for the A-1 were to be given as soon as possible,
so that an order for this apparatus could be placed with Zeiss.
Chinese order for c. stal resonators Schwin Syarze)
Chins.. recently placed a large order for chrystal resonators with DIA.., Carl
Zeiss negotiated with DIA for this order, but by late October 1951 no orders
had been placed with Zeiss.
Carl. Zeiss roduction in 1952-1955
outlook for the division of total Zeiss production in the years to come.
a division of 45% for the DDR,35% for eastern exports and 20%
for western, exports could be foreseen for 1952. In the following year the
proportion for the DDR, would have to sink - to 25% in 1955, the proportion
for western export then remaining at 20% and that for the east rising to 55%.
6. P?oduction for the third quarter of 1951
planned overall production in Zeiss a een
90.% fulfilled for the third quarter of 1951.
T.eodplites, for Rsman:
theodslites for
Rumania is among a most urgent orders at Zeiss,
PrCrdnction of field. glasses for China
6,000 pairs of field-
glasses are to be produced by Carl Zeiss in 1951: more than 5,000 of these
have been ordered for China. For 1952, 13,000 glasses of Type 6 x 30 8 x 30
and 7 x 50 have been set aside for export to China. It is believed in Carl
Zeiss that these glasses, supplied with cross-wires, are for army or naval
use.
(l.) Contz The meaning of the original German sentence is obscure.
(,2) 1 ICommcent: The A-1 a
operational purposes.
ears be a bombsight used for both training
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