FUNKAMT BEELITZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000900005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 13, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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AL tNTELL1 ENCE AGM Y
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Funkamt ' Beelitz
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS 1AFORMATION AFPECTIHG THE NATIONAL DEFENSE..
OF THE UNITED STATES WIT]HNIN THE MEANIN4 OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT $0
U. S. C? 91 AND 32, AS AMSNPED. ITS TRAM MISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS. IN ANY ,!ANNERTO AN UNAUTHORIIE.D PERSON IS PRO-
HIBITED BY LAW REPROSUCTION OP THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED,
REPORT
CD NO:
619361
DATE DISTR. 13 May 1951+
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. the Postal and Telecommunications Ministry ordered that a radio monttoriri o!' ce
be install;, at 5choenefeld near Beelitz. The office was to be equipped with an
e.dx`eoonal antenna. The building earmarked for use by the monitoring agency had
be, fQr raio.monitorin purposes prior to 1945. In November 1953, the then
oceupat~its, 01 the building were informed that they would have to vacate the rooms in
the near future.
2. According to a decree of the Main Administration of Broadcasting,, 16 amateur radio
installations were permitted. to operate in August 1953. Prior to early December,
Funkam$ (radio office) Beelitz could only make spot checks on radio amateur operations.
Howeve,, on I December 1953: the Postal and Telecommunications Mnistry issued an or-
der to the effect that amateur transmitters operating on the 20, 40, and 80 m.bands
be mortored thotoughly. Each violation of existing regulations would have to be re-
pertec without delay to-the pain Administration of Broadcasting. In mid-December,
1'u.nkat Beeltz was ordered carefully to check all transmissions by amateur operator
Wolfgang mach from Schwerin..who used the call signal DM 2 - ABB.
3.
4.
Soviet radio engineers attached to Funkamt Beelitz tried to determine the location
were oonsi
rably disturbed by an American transmitter using the same frequency. The
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In raid-1953 the transmissions of Radio Moscow which used a frequency of 173 kc/i
transmitter controlled b Funkamt Koenigswusterhausen was subsequently
.ssion Fo jam the adio installation operating from Hof,
em, Therican jamming transmitter was logged at Hof
an undetermined type which was fitted with a loop antenna wit:
a-everal days through East Germany by truck This tr
of the 3am-ing transmitter. In the second half of August 1953,
From talcs with the Soviet engineers at Funkamt
o .,0ts ~e reatly interested in the tra
T interest in the rrequency of 786
to oy e pinpotoca.tion of tai
as transmitter close to that of the
The tanager of Funkamt Beelitz and his deputy were ordered t
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cou,d be heard well.. vr.y in the Se-rtenberE area.
November. construction work on antenna. systems was being done at Funkamt
burg after completion of their work at Beelitz.
ful transmitter of the G ,which was to have an output
at Zehlendor.?a
t w. s to b e 'Aid- the same mission as Funkamt Beelitz,
'Ei sn,g w chi was: rev ous y used b'a German Ar- rmy aiio installation. The new Funk-
4 4'. _ off dew masts.ox? .rhgm aex,as wexe bed # set u. Construction
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workers td d that they wou have to build a radio towerdat Zehldridorf near Oranien-
November, the officils of FunkamtBeelitz
be bt. the
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new x p t aphic transmitters were
informed that a new
n;ew Fur 1kamt,was
was to be housed inaa:
sera asirr~ tier`s Sri `ek n 'an u es was ransm2
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to , mt
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the most power
000 kW,was to be erected
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