THE ACADEMY INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON THE PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000500050010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For ' Release .2003/08/28 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA000500050010-0
F'bysics of Solids
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT The Academy Institute for Research on the
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CENTRAL INTELLIULIVUL. AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT
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TN16 DOCUMENT COUTAINO INFORJATIOR APPECTINC THN RATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THU UNITED STATES. WITHIN THO IIEANIRO OF TIT.E 1'S, SECTIONS 7DS
AND 704, OF THE U. S. CODS. AS AE ENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR RSPSL?
ATIOM OP ITS CONTENTS TO OR NLCEIPT BT AN UNAUTRONIYEO PERSON
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DATE DISTR. 26 March 1953
NO. OF PAGES 3
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The Institute far ~sr-x?ch on " !y jcs of ,3oii is c.rl? rl Huchr i.irl i nber ex
`dart of t1he c. st .ier:iz n P.Cademv of : cien, es, is under the
ci c4or hxn of _'rofe sor f:rA i,,drich Moe lich? ~_oe ,i.ch at the 3arie time
?+ceupics the chair for thcoretit'a"I. physics at Berlin Humboldt University and
is head of its Institute for Theore icr~;I. Phtrsins, r:oc,c l .=,h is :. r: :b=..r of
t ~' ~P ani an eager advocate o, the Corr tunist system? he has la.tel beers
:t5i:rutmental in fir`-nf cr.Ii]oyee;; rom r_:G3Bt Cern-an. aca eniI:: i n s t to tes who
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live in ?.est Berlin. or those tkho a,. thought to be politically unreliable.
is. c=onmonly believed among Ge.xan scientists that T.'oeglich adheres to
?:xxrlurxi.sr.7 for opportunistic rcaa=ores rather than out of conviction, Preceding
last war, he was an ardent National Socialist and wore the uri 'orm of
Hitlerets dii troops. It is known that as an Sri, trooper he na.:?ti.cip:-ted in.
he Nazi actions au.c .nst Corm .n Jews., He left the National Socialist E.artir
involuntarily because he was ,accused of having relations with a Jewish ront: nr
ixr his at peal against thu ec'Isior. of the Nazi :arty courts, Moer?ich riled
the chard--~ and applied for read:; fission into the N-,Uii?, The appeal was
r?e jetted
After hie expulsion from the Nazi Party,