VALSTS ELEKTROTECHNISKA FABRIKA (VEF)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040474-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 474
• Publication Date: September 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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,,,~_,., CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL/SECJRZTY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COU!VTRY USSR (Latvia;
PLACE
ACQUIRED
N0. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BEI.AWI
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
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telephone equipment prods}r~icn vs radio receivers and other production is
~, 7xi 19~, VEF specializFd ir. building radio receivers, telephone equipment,
electric cus~r?nt meters, and the P1Minox" camera. Employee training emphasized
electrical Eq: pment. Al.he-agh the Germans hart evacuated many of the machine
tools, suitable machinery F~ESe still avxilabl~. The building and interiors were
so designed that it wrnu.d be very d.iificult to start any other type of production.
Of course it is possible tY.vt the q~yantity cf cne 2rticle could be increased
while another decreased?
xn the years 1935-1939 there were LtauB].7?v about 150 employees in the telephone
equipment department and e~ibordinated workshops. The radio department and its
workshop had about 500. Both departments obtained parts, ready for eaeembly.
from the general.~r=^h3niosl. shops ca the promisee. Certain other parts vere
imported. VEF produced the "10 i.n 1" switchboard at the rate of 3Q to 40 per
yew' (1935-1939)? Production of telephone hand sets was approzitaately 4,0^C
per year (135-1939)?
Telephone work at the VEF was performed by order of Foat ar" ,telegraph Department
of the Hiniatry of Trensportetion. Aay necessary i:+~tructi:criia of improvement,
development, and designing were included in the orders to ''iEEF. :'he actual.
development .sad designing was performed at V&F but the origiaal ideas usual7;~
came from German,}. and England. For exs>ople, V7'sP receivad sampies from these
countries, copied and changed what was patented, and then made the suitable
designing changes for local conditions.
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V$F vas the ]argent electronics factory in Riga. It vas slsc the Largest
*actary in Riga and the largest of its kind in the Balkan States. It
use the only factory that produced te'!ephone equipment in Latvia. There
were tuo othps radio factories in Riga but they vere much smaller than LIEF.
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