RFT FUNKWERK DRESDEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000500520010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIG NCE AGENCY ~~ REPORT NO.
1 IF RMATUON REPORT CD No.
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COUNTRY
East (errrsE,.ny
DATE DISTR.
20 "hrch 10,53
SUBJECT
EFT Funk:aerk Dresden
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i! After the collapse of Germany in 1945, the Radio-Mende firm in Dresden was
changed into VEB Fuankwerk Dresden. The former owner of Radio--"+Iende was ar-
rested and put in the PMuehlberg Concentration Camp. The plant went into
trust :eshin and was placed under the management of a former department head,
`"i+& :nrirh_ Aimich was an old-line convinced Communist. In 1918 Radio-
Mende became an ]; plant - The plant was &t ntled by tM nussiaas, but was
later set up for the production of radio and measuring devices, to be seat
to the USSR as reparations. Today the plant is a large factory which has -
the 1^rg. st developmental and experimental office in East Germany., About
1.- 000 workers are employed there.
The director of the laboratory and the technical director of the plant is
To:'erner Kutz:iche, a so-called "Verdienter Techniker des tlolkest'.. The labora-
tory staf=f numbers about 80 people,,who are under the Ministry for Machine
Constriction, -lain Department of 1.lectrical Engineering. Recently develop-
mental orders have cone main]., from the Ministry of t~- a Interior, Bureau for
Eeononic Affairs (Bfs3) Berlin, Glinkastrasse 2. The Burea.), functions as
a police weapons office and controls the developmental office. One of the
employees of this office is (fnu) Weihrauch, who maintains close connections
w th the SSD.
3. The following are some of the articles developed by the office:
R.t r instruments - this department consists of engineer (fnu) Winkler,
r;=fIng. (fnu) Kaule and 10 other co-workers. The development of these
in tru ents is to be concluded by about 19511. In December 1952 work was
in the initial stages. Tubes of type LD 11 and LD 12 were urgently needed.
b) ImDulse technology - Winkler also works in this field. Among recent de-
ve"Lopments are an impulse sender for radar purposes, an impulse oscillo-
gr.Aph with a width measurer. (Breitennesser ).
c) Very high frequency radio equipment - Dipl. Ing. (fnu) Berthold and a
feu helpers work in this field. They are producing portable transmitters
irh ch can be installed in aircraft, police vehicles, tanks, etc. The
_+ac2ity of the transmitters is 10 C: and 100 X. Portable sdons With
P -rapacity of about 0.1 '~' and a range of 0.5 to 10 kilometers were also
be ng developed.
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d) Snort wave devices ? Engir-ser (fnu) Morrawa, along with a few helpers, works
in this field,, Portable short wave and very high frequency direction finders
from ti to 180 Ms and stationery IP devices fray 20 to 400 Wnrz being pro-
duced. These devices were placed at the disposal of the post and the police,
In 1952 60 devices were to be delivered to the main postal directorates, and
in 1953 200 instrtmments are to be constructed for the police. The device is
used to locate illegal transmitter:.
In 1953 further important development projects are planneda The Buero fear
Wirtsohaftefragen (BfW) Berlin, Olinkastrasee 2, is making available 2,,000,000
DME for these projects,
5o Relations between the plant directorate and personnel are not good? Attendance
at plant assemblies is very poor. The laboratory is the worst spot in the plant;
no one in this department belongs to the SEB or the '.2 No attempt is made to
politically indoctrinate the department, however, for it is feared that any at-
tempt to do so would cause the technicians to defect,
6, The plant guard consists of ten men and one large police dog.
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Ca-s nta Distinguished Teatmician of the People - an honorary
title awarded for meritorious service,
25X1 A 2- CommeA At. Deutecb-Bovvetiscte Freundschaft e German-Soviet
Frie s iF Association.
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