MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON THE EAST GERMAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100210002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Appr 9Q F IQWeE9M /24: CIA-RDP80-00810A004100210 awl
COUNTRY East Germany
25X1A
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Information on the East German
Telecommunications Industry
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
eptember 1953, the State P
Telecanamtications Minis
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(provisional investment program) a
investments in the field of teleco
to reduce its investment plan to a total
drastic curtailment of all plans related
construction of trunk exchanges. Various
plants had to be cancelled.
Apparently the Minister of Postal Affairs
the Main Department of Telecommunications
Council of Ministers and would procure th
the'Minister of Postal Affairs pr
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ver, on 9 September 1953,
stal investment projects.
. On 9 November 1953,
to Planning Commission
a necessitated a
e telephone net and the
ecommunication engineering
On 1 August 1953, the 1953 investment plan was fulfilled 35 percent. The telecom-
munication engineering plant at Arnstadt which had received a large export order from
China had to discontinue all work on orders for the German Postal Administration. The
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produc
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aication engineering plant at Treptow. The latter plant
'k fuer Signal and Sicherungstechnik" (signal installations
for the East German Railroads in 1954. In earls October 1953..
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