RUSSIAN INTEREST IN VEB FUNKWERK KOEPENICK

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Sees. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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East Germany / USSR
Russian Interest in VEB Funkwerk
Koepenick
DATE OF INFO:
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 10 September 1954
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REhbRT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
L. Although-there are no Soviets currently stationed at VEB FunkwerkKoepenick,
the plant is often visited by Vitaliy Fadeyevich Kozlov and Yevgeniy Petrovich
Solovyev, now of the Soviet Trade Delegation in East Berlin but formerly with
SAG Kabel, until its dissolution! The Koepenick plant carries on a considerable
volume of Soviet correspondence chiefly with the'Soviet Trade Delegation and
with the East German Ministry of Machine Construction, It is also believed
that there may be some correspondence with the Soviet Marine Register.
2. Although it is obviously true that the Soviets are interested in all of the
equipment discussed in the Soviet correspondence, part of the correspondence
goes to the East German Ministry, as mentioned above;,this is primarily the,
correspondence setting out the quarterly reports on current development pro-
jects.
3. The information in paras 4 - 7 and 9 below is taken from this Soviet corres-
pondence of the Funkwerk Koepenick.
4, Tasks for Soviet Ministries
In 1954 the Funkwerk was still engaged on these two tasks for unspecified min-
istries:
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a. Task 51-9. Development and production of a sample apparatus for cali-
brating the output voltage of standard signal generators.
b. Task 51-28. Development and production, of a sample power pulse gen-
erator for HF vibrations.
Development work has been causing great difficulties. Nearly 1,000,000 DME
will have been expended on each task by the end of 1954, when they are sched-
uled to be completed. The representative in East Germany of the customer for
task 51-28 was, in February 1953, one Antonov (fnu)3
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Echograph and Echolot - Soviet tasks
The following remarks are from a quarterly report to the Ministry of Machine
Construction, dated l0 April 1954, on task 024225b - K4/44. (This is a ZAFT
reference number.) It is independently known, however, that the Echolot and
Echograph have been developed for the:Soviets. On 11 and 12 May 1954, Soviet
acceptance officials from the Soviet Marine Register office in Rostock tested
the apparatus in the Funkwerk's basin in East Berlin.
"Quarterly Report on the development of vibrators .....
1. Following the request of Mr. Kironer of the RFT Anlagenbau in Rostock
we conducted experiments to detArmine the best spacing of the Echolot
and Echograph vibrators. The solution of this problem is very important for
the measurement of shallow depths .... The vibrators .... are partly res-
ponsible for the dissatisfaction of the acceptance officials in the works
with the Echolot ....
6.. Emergency transmitter for the USSR
A 60W emergency transmitter was delivered earlier (?1953) to the USSR. A slight-
ly altered new version of this, with the type number 1513.1A2, was also ordered;
it was ready in April 1954 and was to be taken over by acceptance officials of
the Soviet Marine Register at the end of May 1954. An incomplete document on
this apparatus (May 1954) mentions that the transmitter aerials have a static
capacity of 200...800 pF, resistance 2.5...10 ohms; radius of action about
400 kms (depending on the aerials)';"-weight 105 kgs, and measurement 4f
880 x 615 x 430 mm.
a. This apparatus was delivered to the Soviets, with a full set of documents,
in summer 1953. The documents were returned to Funkwerk Koepenick in
March 1954 for checking. A number of translation errors then came to
light and new documents had to be prepared.
b. A new (March 1954) document showed the following technical details of
this transmitter:
Frequency range: 365...550 kcs
Set frequencies: 410, 425, 454, 480, 550 kcs
Frequency stability: 1.10-3
Type number: 1603.1 A2
Purpose: For marine radio deck cabins (Morskogo Flota V Radiorubke).
For communications at short distances of about 2 sea miles, e.g. for
passing ships, the receipt of navigation warnings and in port. The
transmitter can be remote-controlled.
e.
An old (1953) document showed the following further particulars:
Weight:
70 kgs
Dimensions:
640 x 560 x 400 mm
Modulating frequency:
500, 800, 1000 cps
Current supply:
220 v/50 cps
8. Visit of Solovev to the Funkwerk Koepenick
a. On 26 April 1954, Yevgeniy Petrovich Solovyev, formerly of SAG Kabel
visited the Funkwerk Koepenick. He said that he was working in the
Scientific Technical Section of the Soviet Trade Delegation in East
Berlin. He added that he would be staying in East Germany for a long
time and that his section was to be expanded. He also said that
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at that time only Soviet citizens were employed in the Trade Delega-
tion.
b. When he was asked about his immediate business in the Funkwerk, he said
that he had come to buy some electric coffee machines for the USSR.
He had also come about a development project that was then still in hand
in the Funkwerk; this was for radio receivers to be mounted on bicycles.
He said that this task.should have been finished long ago; he seemed to
be very annoyed that it was not and remarked that the tempo of work in
East Germany was very slack and that he did not notice much of the fam-
ous German thoroughness. His hearer thought that he must have made an
error about the receivers for bicycles and questioned him about this.
He then repeated his statement, using again the Russian word Velosiped.
9. Research reports for the East German Ministry of Machine Construction
The following projects have been dealt with in reports written in Russian in
the Funkwerk. These quarterly research and development reports are for the
East German Ministry of Machine Construction. There is no `evidence"`"sa- "et"",,
whether the Soviet interest in the projects is anything further than that of being
kept continuously informed. (The K numbers are ZAFT reference numbers.)
a. Task 024225b - K4/67. HF generators. The report mentioned large gen-
erators for 0.15 kw, 1 kw, 2.5 kw, 10 kw (13 mcs), 20 kw, 50 kw; and
inductive generators for 100 kw, 4 kw, 10 kw, 30 kw and 1 kw. No fur-
ther essential technical data were mentioned.
b. Task 024225b - K4/73, Z3 apparatus. The report refers to a protective
device (Zashchita) for the export transmitter. This device was said to
be necessary for the working of the transmitter at full power. Develop-
ment of the device was finished, within the framework of task K4/76-SL2,
but could not be taken further because of lack of a rare gas for the
thyratron Sl/6 i lU (or ? S1/6 i 1Y). The question of switching was
not cleared up, as tFe postal authorities, after working the two halves
of the transmitter together for a short time, were then working them
separately only, so that no data could be obtained for the simultaneous
working of the two halves.
C. Task 024225b - K4/74. Single side-band transmitter (Peredatchik Dlya
Odnoy Bokovoy Polosy) (HFA - sic). The report said that in the period
under review work had been mainly on cross-modulation in the power
stage (Nad Perekrestnoy Modulyatsii V Stupeni Moshchnosti). Work was being
,held up because of the lack of a selective short wave receiver with
good cross-modulation. Lack of trained laboratory technicians was also
holding up the development of auxiliary apparatus.
d.
Task 024225b
- K4/76.
SL2 apparatus A No essential technical data were
mentioned.
e.
Task 024225b
- K4/217.
10 KW medium and long-wave transmitter. No
essential tec
hnical da
ta were mentioned. On 19 May 1954,A Ruse `from..
the Soviet Tr
ade Deleg
ation, giving his name as Belousov (ph), tele-
phoned the pl
ant. He
spoke about an apparatus in such terms that he was
clearly referring to SL2 or to Z3, but it is not certain which of the
two he actually meant.
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1.I LComment: Ko%lov was the chief Soviet engineer and general manager of
Scientific-Technical Bureau No. 3 (NTB-3)(WTBG), and Solovyev was a member of the
Soviet Auditing Commission of the former SAG Kabel.
Comment: From the form of these, they appear to be intended for the
East German Central Office of Research and Technology(ZAFT). Reports must be
submitted to ZAFT in Russian and German through the appropriate ministry, on
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all research and development tasks. It is` usually unsafe to say what exactly is
the nature of the Soviet "interest" in each of these cases, including the present
ones. One can merely say that the Soviets are "keeping themselves informed".
Para 5 shows, however, that ZAFT reports are also submitted on Soviet tasks.
Correspondence with the Trade Delegation does appear, however, to center around
equipment ordered by the Soviets and, in some cases, developed in the plant ac-
cording to Russian specifications. This is sometimes quite certain, as indicated
below; in other places it is still only an inference.
3. ]Comment: A man of the same name also visited, the plant at about the same
time in connect ion with some oscillogram analyzers.
4. Comment: SL2 is written in ink in the Soviet document, so that it is
evidently intended to-be the German lettering SL2 - i.e. a long-wave transmitter.
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