INFORMATION ON EAST GERMAN STANDARDIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004201120004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
REPORT NO.
INF004MATION REPORT CD NO.
COUP`:' i.a t Germany
DATE DISTR 1_7 June 1o,,-,-.4
SUBJECT Iriforrmation on East Gernan Standardization NO. OF PAGES 1
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1. The official installations, nationalized factories, and n her firms
which are located in East Germany and East Berlin are no longer permitted
to draw DIN norms directly from the Beuth-.Vortrieb. Orders for DIN
norms have to be placed with Yerlag Koehler & Volokme.r, Leipzig and Berlin,
which then draws the norm sheets from the Beuth-Vertrieb and delivers
them to the installation which placed the original order. This regulation
is the result of the Interzonal Trade AP*reement, which also includes the
transmittal of DIN norms. The new procedure is advantageous to the iaat
in that the Beuth-Vertrieb no longer learns the names and a.dreceem of
fins placing orders.
in about early February 1954,a directive was issued to place all order:] for
DIN norms with the Deutsche Such-Export urd- Import GmbH, Leipzig C It
Leninstr. 16, and Berlin 0 17, Rungestr. 20. This would seem to indicate
that Verlag Koehler d: Volckmar has been renamed.
3 Despite the new reegalations, people from the