THE SUPPLY OF MATERIALS FOR EAST GERMAN VACUUM TUBE MANUFACTURING PLANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003000060010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2009/03/18: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA003000060010-1 25X1
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY A~PORJ
COUNTRY East Germany DATE DISTR. 11 December 2195";
SUBJECT apply of ::iateriale for 1 ast German r; J. 0IF PA S 5
Vacuum Tube Lanufacturing Plants
PLACE NO. OF ENCLS
ACQUIRED (LISTED BELOW)
DATE OF SUPPLEMENT TO 25X1
INFO, REPORT NO.
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18 PROt1IDITED HY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS F0RU IS PROHIS)TED.
On ?? September 1.953,the Last German Council of Ministers reached a 25X1
dAo?ision on the strength of which immediate steps were to be taken in
o,rdrr to eliminate difficulties in material procurement for vacuum tube
manufacturing plants, Tae. r:1ecision was the result of previous reports
aJ ;l-ie Main Administration R~ of the Ministry for General Machine Con.-
t - u i ion whhicn termed the material supply situation as 'I atastr-aphic'"
and which stated that, continued transmitter operations in Fast Germany
be .Lm ni.s; bi:p f jet.essarv steps were not takern imnedIats', y._
Pursuant to the decision of the Council of Ministers, representatives of the
HV fiFC of the Ministry for General . achine Construction, DIA Metal?, and of
several enterprises manufacturing vacuum tubes met for the purpose of determinilagg
which essential materials were to be imported before the end of 1953. The
following persons took pa t in the session:
W'itzky
FBlumn
Wolf
Raethen
Boehm
Fsw,.herlbai;h
Seehiit.en
Mueller
Schmidt
Koehne