EAST GERMAN EXPORTS OF PRECISION INSTRUMENTS AND OPTICAL GOODS TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004300970010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 24, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18. Sections 709 and 704, of the U.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY East Germany/Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT East German Exports of Precision
Instruments and Optical Goods to
.Czechoslovakia
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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1. The trade.protocol signed on 6 March 1954 between East Germany and Czechoslovakia
provides for the following exports of precision instruments and optical products
to Czechoslovakia.l Values are given in units of 1,000 rubles.2
X-ray tubes for industrial installations
Various electric technical apparatus3
Breathing apparatus (Atemschutzgerate)
Photographic printing frames
Adding-`arid accounting machines
'lx'se't c calculating machines
lnVoiciing :;Machines
Bookkeeping machines
Cash registers
1p50
x,378
.35
Miniature film motion picture cameras -
Other motion picture ;c pras -,
Other, photographic:.,;apparatus -
Long carriage typewriters 40
Portable typewriters 507
Miniature typewriters 785
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I I AEC
uantit
400
ORR x
Value
84
].06
1
8
883
37
166 25X1
1.0-31
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Spare parts
Heat measuring instruments
Gas meters
Other quantity measuring instruments
Pressure gauges
Other testing and measuring instruments
Gas analysis instruments
Hydrological and meteorological
instruments
Oscillographs and geophysical
instruments . ~!
Installations for automatic
temperature control
Other measuring tools and instruments
Special orders for precision instruments
and optical products
Material testing instruments and machines
Geodetic instruments,
Microscopes
Optical instruments for use in physics
Spare parts for optical instruments
Other optical instruments
Other measuring tools and instruments
Material testing instruments
Other testing and measuring instruments
Other laboratory instruments
Eyeglasses
Lens calibrators
Surgical instruments
X-Ray apparatus
X-Ray tubes and valves
Industrial clocks
Second clocks
Spare parts
Slide and stop gauges
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Quantity Value
570
345
75
92
297
356
137
56
486
444',
704
47
1,367
297
856
1,002
2.76
31
219
2.91
428
552
1
7
439
270
189
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Product
Other measuring instruments and tools
Nautical steering apparatus
Wrist watches
Still camera and motion picture camera
lenses
Other lenses
Projectors and negative viewers
Other photographic and cinematic
equipment
Film cameras (standard size)
Reflex cameras
Reproduction apparatus and automatic
photo apparatus
Quantity Value
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124
793
1,453
3
3
332
371
461
120
191
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