FORSCHUNGSANSTALT-ELEKTROCHEMISCHER STROMQUELLEN BERLIN-NIEDERSCHOENEWEIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000440006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
FORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY `-iac
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-UuuE?llen, 3erlin-1'Tied< rschoeneveide
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DAM OF
CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 4 May 1953
NO. OF PAGES. 1
NO, OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
The 1orschuungsansta1t-I:.:e.ekt,rocher-tischer Stromq_uel.lenlexisted from ?19!46 to
11
;evember 19b9 in Perlis!-=Obersehoenewweide, Sedanstrasse (now called Eruno
juerge1weg 69, on premise. formerly belonging to the Pertrix battery plant,
in ;;he early stages, the i? orsthungsanstalt was called Technical Bureau for
Galvanic E.'iements of the Soviet Ministry for 4ectri cal Industry. Chief of
Forschungsansta:}.t was (fnu) Tomashevs
l?or:iashevsr had one Soviet assistant, (fnu) Sidorenko, an army officer, When
1'omashev^sk}r left the i' orschiungsanstalt at the end of 19149, an NKVT? Major
_4rorri the. 05W plant moved in and spent about two months liQuidatine the shoa,
Th: s 1,4ajor had been a good friend of Tomashevs .
The Forschungsan:Aait was staffed by about 25 Germans, including one battery
};pucialist from the Pei-trix Battery Plant. Its assignment was to study
German inventions in the field of batteries and to develop specific batteries
on Soviet orders.. some of the batteries made here were tested at an address
in the iJarschauerstrasse. Last Berlin, at temperature of minus 30 or 40 de-
grees centigrade., k t one point, an unidentified officer from Babelsberg
ordered the development of a small, round battery of 21 volts covered with
igelit '.`fiis was allegedly to be used in the very sensitive devices which
:re rumored to nave been Geiger counters.
of models of 25X1
e a teries were cevelope :t the Forschungsanstalt and then made in quantity
.$ the Perttrix plant In east Berlin. For each battery-type developed, pilot
~mcKieis and complete p1,-ins were always shipped to Moscow,
Cc?n Research Institute for Electrical-Chemical
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