PROJECTS ACTIVITIES AND PERSONALITIES AT KUCHINO

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SUBJECT Projects, Activities, and PersonalitiesDATE DISTR. 7 March 1955
at Kuchino
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
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REFERENCES
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Comments:
1. On page 2 and throughout the report read Marfino for Mafino.
3. Read Major Malyutin for Major Malutin throughout.
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2. Personalities at KUCE7NO:
Colonel ZHELEZOV Head of KLTCEIbrO, '.ILF12TO and SPIIUIKZOVKL
Colonel DO3R'OZNANSKIY Head of KUCL IN0
3uajor 1OL KOV ilcad of Iaborator No. 3 (D/ F and Radar)
Major Z"rIDANOV ? Had of 1 aborator; - No. 9 (Bor&our Protection)
Lt. -Co:i. TOKATIE,Y_
Ma jor 4,APOYMajor I 1ZJTTh
Staff uo7bers of Laborator%r No. 9.
XVLNOV Political Co:rwissar at KUCFIINO.
3. The projects known to be in hand nt KIT(.; TN(: h,-treen January 1950 and
(i)
T recorder dEVClopraent:
Experiments vere in bi.ing to. improve the; quality of
play back, out dol n weight and nh--sica; uuacnsions.
One of the chief troubles in ir.orovina play -back
quality was the difficulty of producing small taotors
with a cQnstant s-)cod. The Inforriant as told that
a Iritish. export recorder .as bLinb copied.
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(ii) Various DA, and radar projects.
Dovelo,nont of.moans of producing'pbazneoeutioal emulsions by
ultra-sonic methods.
(iv) Research on, a-method of rendering a husas?beisg uwmonscious
by ultra-sonic faoans.
(v)
Research on olectro-encephajography.
and (v) yere_under the diractiop.of Zr,, POEM.
(vi) Development of a barbed wire fence which would be coupled
to a source of eieotrica;i.energy sueh.that any persona oominz
into contact sith the fence vwou:#d be unable to release hiuiseff.
:.nimais were used in laboratory oxperimspte. end suffered
considerable pain. F.inai result not known to Informant.
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(viii)
Devolopment of concealed microphones for. use behind wall.
pictures, under table tops, otc.
Solar heat water distillation niant.for.drinking and washing
v;ater, consisting-of several wooden containers,, was built; worked
satisfactorily. b_goodnumberof these was produced.
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Capacity line for border protection: line was strung 2.5 metros
above the earth and a tap every 100 metres led to an indicator
device. . person approachine; tho line caused the eaoseit.r betvmsen
line and earth to vary.
(i)
(ii) !%Ucroscope for the observation of giving cells in liquid under
the influence of u-Ltra-sonic radiation.
Tost apparatus for cheekir4; parabolic mirrors
be capable of. operation by unskilled personnel.
configuration of parabolic metal mirrors which were to be
produced e1sc wrYhcre in large nuLibers for the Border Protection
Ministry (GRFWZSC:iUTZ). It ?rva:: stipulated that the device riust
A simple device was developed for 'cheekin& the physical 25X1
The frecuenc,; was to b;, variable, botv~?een
50 XC/S and 2 iviC/a, and the generator was to
be capab_e of producin?, 10-1,000 watts.
(iii) nfro-Red warns set
The apparatus was ordered by the Department for Border Protection.
The, development and production took place in the WCi O
Laboratories of .the 1 .G.B. . The task of the apparatus was the
guarding of long stretchias of border country. The idea vas to
erect hosts at varying distances along the border whereby persons
passing a defined line by night shou-4 be detected. The
principle utilisod ;aodulatod infra-red radiation on to a receiver.
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Interrupt .on of the bra-! caused a role at the raceivvr' one6,
to trip, It t-as sti nulat?c that the werning s6; shoou.c be
as s+iall as ;3ossibie and u--zd.!,y transportable. :n ti..j course
of the develoouent throe wade .s were evolved.- The Second
tsodo was D? n about 30 3amar>1GS, and. 25X1
was put into service. LOA I
tLe plan cal.teQ for severatt hurydro~ thil; -n, 25X1
przet'is to be brought into service. 25X1
in 5entcmbcr, 1951 this type was not completely 25X1
cmc;d and the i ,G.B. were cautious about wuttinp; it into
series production. F- I unless 25X1
special ? forts n?e1'u tia&; to clear the ,rvmainillg duvuloncxint
x-quirt:n~.nts it is poesible that this rut is not et in s(,rius
production.
Ir the first nodes a . har,i;;- foeuss,-d bcai foil on
nricE,
rZic.. had tnc: pronurt, t xef?_c. in t:,.0 direction al inco'ainC royc . dhi, ~.riso cor_ris~ of throe-
aidoel , rra:.iid, with edges 5 C..,. ' he ra;? is tt a;ri j.ncid.ont Qn
tht; base is 4.qui and ir, ruf;.cctva
para LG._ to itcc..f. . Vaxiouc; pri; . },r,rt. tried
xo,t .?;_;'f,.. . rt ~;t1.. fro;:. csc _ othci~ in gc:xf ~rt,:a.>RCe. . The
cf!cctuc? r?a, concentratGc in ~ab?rq whic'-, is _oc4?tta.
::,,fbind the radiatinc c;sc;.,unt, and foousju3 on z convertor.
!. .i .tcih %, Anne;: "A"." :n )ractico, tho irtridunt ra is
t''t reflectt.d in rd .,:,o< , tiirt tk,c,rL i.. an -roa zso round the ra~iiatin , sour' . - rc;f .acted light. Sketch I,
Anj a "aa" sho?~s t:.(. ,ath 'of' t I. ra ? fry.i tiie l&r to tit, ,ri cLo
thLrt t?, :,s, nas?..b^; ;,c -i.Yrro - xht. t a convertor. Certain
c3c,tai._; of cers'.arset "t n . rc ;:o aJn in c.otoh II, annex "A" and
in .t-},pc radix "B".
Skotch II, Annex "A" shows the constmCtion of rile rad ,atinLJ
unit -w:ith thy: nrincipa~- ~rr~ngeoent~ for thb adjustin4 of Vic
actual r:;dintin,- cle'~oont. is ?,oixted out later, built-in
ccntrr._ sari;;n ,if the radiating u:.u??:.;rtt cou.id not be apnlicd.
T ht, ft of the la.-t) 1; is brough-U into t' io contra: radiation
t.,", three 3 irs of 'he; correct distsncu
of tilt frx_i ti-c. lens o:7icmt;d by uovu ent of :e
a:ioe4 th axia. Thxvv ticrc-: s at thj rear of th. :~ a r,-:~o~aer
sc; o ilo16 t;:. la-in in to ocrrc,ct position if e anrin,,
nrovid..d bets oen ?L'u re r cover en i the lan;, bane. Ti cue
N!,s , e;-x_??,' -nr~ti- Artie lens. In front of th4 lens ;vas tii.,?
i.A 'r. -red f i+t,.r r.or.5ist:in , of a circular shoat az~,rVxi:~a.ty ti
0.5 tt.ic': c.nd !ia o of , hard rut ,.r-like naterial. The
filter Wca sere.'acd into tike .ianm '.aouaing; r'.Anex "B" ah,:,,:rs the
asset b;,. of the oi..rror, ooavertpr and 1arjp. The
?occivt:r has contain;~d it tiiv s??ace bc:hind Cu.; 'iirror.
V w co ricrtor ,:a.s S6cu.'eci b.- rii%v ..bleu were in turn b
three seruv:s arour i,. the )ei i-,hery. .: ittVr varI rat is s: o~ n
ix sJtAQX "C'. in Vain; t.it, c:.;nvcrtot is p:'rtJ,r cont,-.ined in
the a o- i if icr 3 Cl(i. Thi.. --rrant anent had t ho advantar a of
a certain ::,ace .savitL co-:in ed to th& first arrange writ but
.ic not d-if fir _n fory.lfi .Laak? :ioum, re;;a:in. d ti.U
r," but ~,s eaa _.f rt,!, acv- ale in a sasuvuhat ei:ailsr vk t,
th intdreh,~ra.ablc ob jectivo of tha vaoll-knorln oiniaturc,
cat ,ra, Vie aocu. atton of the infra+rred rad3ati :n ...a
aehicvud b;; .u conventiona_.. choppor eirailer to t::&t u;,vci in r -x
radtoa. It soon bcease npi.)are;nt that this of soduia:.
..aa taut satisfactox.-, particularly biucattst of the thur:,a?.
i>c rt =a of the -Lamp. !'ttocr',ts to ovfirco1ae the, inert-l _ b;
irkr,? tiro .:spa ti.i.th as ; avu 04 i:1Prvv4Uraent, -irobab,L,;-
b0onusco then the steep current pu.L.3 tvroagh t:.u c:i~r,ner
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deviated too seriousiy frog .the sine fora.
the s st~;_r nued.ed a better
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caothod of modulation. ict?r expcyi:acnts on i:;mroved modulation
methods are mentioned further on in this report. - The next .tc,n
was an experiment with another for.:l of cluchanic i noduiatic'n. z% t)
metal discs, as sl,or.n in annex al:etch III, vier.: introduced into
the beard, one being; rotated ban c_e:ctrica.L motor. This s_,-stc, was,
ho :ever, never sarious _y considerec. for practical use, any. bas on_
used for conparison nurpozea. Various t;; 19
es of Laups were, tr_uc.,
voltages lying between 2 and 4 volts and wattagcs bet esn 0.0r :nu.
2.5 watts. It Szaa.;slywn that tht, -;,attage of 'the .i.a itself aid
not greatly inflaenco the rusuits. A. more significant role was
played by the actual for:, of the fi:.arnent and the aharonoss of the
spot. The receiver amplifier circuit is not knov,
He can recall on!y that fairly 3:::ali valves reru used,
i.e. untochLs
with glass enve~_or,cs and bases of about t`zu:.,b size. Thu asrolifier
supply was a 4 volt ac=_iuulator and a sr:;slw 60 volt dry Mattel,
With both the above tepos of L paratus they, achieved 15-_0 av. at
the output of the air,-rlifier with tht: prig.; at a distance of about 300
metres froc:i the radiating source. By using disc chopper .aodulation
this distance as -increased to so::ie 400 metres. When a person
stepped into the ray at any selected point the relay trip enured the
lame to. i_ight. x.t the same tirac; one could distinctly hear the
sound."of the relca=r trip.
.. furth4R::devulopuent was taken up with the intention of permitting
the dirt dt on of riovcment of an intruder to be detortaincu, i.e. to
sham whet ter the person vas intent on leaving or entering the country.
To this end a ;particu.ar iwap was chosen with its filmatnt in -L-.(,
for:, of an elongated "S". Only at the ends was the f_la':iont bunt.
The reoaindc,r of its length being ::.incar. Lt a distance of 500
metres a picture of the filament approximately 14. metres Jong and 0.5
metres wide as projected. The l1G,}ESated Nloture. -af th. til-r -.Ili.
lay horizontally and at each end of the picture was a reooivor.
With this arrargenent the pris::, vas dispensed with. Depending upon
-which side of the beam was interrupted first one or, otiior of the
receiver relays was activated (see ,r,nnex "D"). The sa.ae receiver
was used in this sy-steu as in the second !'odcl, but the and
receiver were now separated. The same output voltages v,vrc achieved
as in the first model with sender and receiver 500 metres from each
other. v:i;h this apparatus 500 ^etres 25X1
was a practicable distance a which it oou.id be put into servic,,.
white light appeared when either of the two rays was interrupted,
and as the second ray was i.ntorru ed, a second light came on -
either green or red - depending o4tlle sequence in which the rays
were interrupted. in practice the red light carne on when a porson
was attempting to cross the border outwards and the green light if
atte.:oting to cross inwards. The nuaror the line-crosser was to
the iamalp source, and the quicker he ,.roved natarac.i,; caused the two
receivers to triL8,.r in quicker seq__enco. So that in the
neiL hbourhood of t::e ' at,rp it was' shov.n that the order of trig ,tiring
could not, in .-.tang cases, be detcrI_,ined. E=, eriments indicated
that a-man moving at a rate of 100 u.,etres n ten seconds, at a
distance from the lamp of 15 metres could be observed on both l :ps;
his direction of :cove-:rent, hox:ever, could not then be detcraincd
with an;,, certainty. it !as, therefore, deteroinod nit to put
the, observation pos-'U3 in the neighbourhood of the la:.tns but in the
neighbourhood of the receivers. The arrangoaent of the observation
posts },as planned as follor.:e: Lbcry 1,000 metres two lamps should
be sot up radiating in opposi..e directions. In betr.eun each set
of lames should N. tao receivers -with r(,cc.)tivit?r in o`,,osito
directions.. Distance between each laiap and receiver to bu 500
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metres. a guard pos. was to be
established - hich by this moans was rc,sponsible for a length
of 1,000 metres vcr;Y real fault of this system ay in that
when the lar:ms were rep? aced tae focussing was imperfect. bs
the guard post personne- were not ?ike:i~;> to be in the position
to adjust the new latr-s the act would be out of service at the
expiry of its origins! :-3ap .Life and r_,ust be returned to the
laboratory to be.; re-set up. ut the title of the production of
the first car.Tole s it as not possible to obtain proporl y centred
1&s as this did not figure in the production pro tame of the
supplying factor;-. When this *as c ra,?n to the. attention of the
laboratory chief at KUCHINO he stated that the Border Protection
people had explicitly stated in writing that they would be
responsib;.e for the replacement and adjustment of laoips. He went
on to say that if, in f act,. the user agency could not do this in
ti tht th'
praccea wase agencys own affair.
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This was achieved quite simply by situating the trough.sosaevehat in
the manner of a filter in front of the lens. With this arrangeiant
they achieved a modulation depth of 605 with the first experiments,
while vtith the chopper they on mana ?ed 8-10,0L 25X1
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a quartz crystal of 1.8 me/s. The 'quartz cryeta was sub-modulated
with 50 as. or 100 cs. and used to modulate the infra-red bessr.
in the course of time the earning sets Nou be suppled with
properly centred replacement lamps.
The tendency of develapinent in September 1951 was towards making
the warning sets smaliei and handier. hithough a greater
effective working distance only has point in a reaaonab]4r flat
terrain this was also so r,ht after.,
The only actual ii.Tproveraent of the ,,.hole equipment consisted in a
higher degree of ;.7odu Cation of, the infra-red ray. Experiments-
wer6 conducted with the intention of modulating the ray ultra-
sonioa.uy. In a srjall trough filled with "Taluol" they e-,-.4bedded
They were constantly handicapped by the lack of infra-
red spectrocie.tcrs which they reocated.1y asked for but never received.
In consequence of this spectrometric :ieasurencnts were not :iado but
the essential s-eectrurr the exoarimonts
was in the nature of 1-3 microns. the lenses and
filters shoved average: properties.
(iv) IYaf'ra-red telescope
(See Lnnexes 'E' and
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The i ans crl.. d for production of the 25X1
fitted to German Panzera during World 'b'ar 2. 11 oonsiderable
number of these ex-Panzer ty;,ea Baas ht _6 b... t-, 'e Soviets at KUCILIf,O.
The abture convcr - rs used for the te-esco=,)e were Soviet copies of
the G(,r:,Tan Q.E.G. ty?,e twwhich as described in detail in a U.S.
Iagazine "Optical Soienccs". These convertors 25X1
N,err:::,anuf, actured in a is OSCM works. built a small 25X1
portab .e ? versio.Lof an I.R. telescope in the Sher of 1951.
(Sec . nnexe 'F'.). The viceaing unit was pawered by an induction
coil supplied by a 400-volt dry battery. u push button switch
on the front of the grid caused the coi.. to charge a condenser,
which discharged threu? h a -.ong time constant.
i. elascope in Various sizes, inc.:.uc ing a ,.iode:i such as that
The convertor took three. micro amperes at 10 kv.
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.(v) , paratus for- Coastal Protecti?n by Subaer ed
Microphones iota 1950)
The plan calico for a coastal 25X1
protection device to be put into extensive service around
Soviet coasts.. The general principles to be followed were
outlined to I'nforraant v~ho instructed to earth out eve ; o>>-
anent work, but in fact vas not allowed to proceed. The
principle -no to subnorge ! gnuto-strict ion receivers of various
frequencies at varying 4st7nceo fro,_,i each other. A.
oulticore cable was to lead to aehtral ahpIifier. It was
honed to detect and localise incoming motor boats and larger
ships with a high degree of accuracy. M.an Soviets experts
were callcd,in to the discussions, and at one stage it was
proposed to go ahead with the construction of an installation
.A an estimated coat of 10 niillion roubles. infrr,:pant, ';.nz
not present at the d~cbates for and against thy. project, -,: