DECIMETER STATIONS IN EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006000130011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL IN REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
Decimeter Stations in East Germany
DATE DISTR. 4 April 1955
NO. OF PAGES 4
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE II. SECTIONS 793
AND 751. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS FENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO ON RECEIPT DY AN UNAUINONIZRO PERSON
IS PROHIBITED IT LAW THE NEPROEUCTION OF THIS PORN IB PROHIBITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Ithe funds allocated for the
installation of mobile and stationary decimeter lines amounted to 7 million
.stmarks. These funds wSre allotted to the Office of Long Distance Lines,
12/14 Reichstagsufer, Berlin, in charge of the assembly of these stations.
There were 8 to 10 lines each with three of four end or relay stations.
Amongh others these lines included the following: Erfurt - Suhl Meiningen,-
&eipzig - Weissenfels and probably Merseburg, Dresden - Meissen - Riesa,
Erfurt - Sondershausen - Muehlhausen, Annaberg/Buchholz - Johanngeorgenstadt,
Halle ?. Eisleben - Sondershausen - Ludwigslust - Rostock .. Str laund and
another line extending to Bismark. An amount of about 60,000stmarka
had bee t?@" 9pr the repair of postal railroad cars and motor vehicles.
-,with the department chief, it was learned that for 11'
j/ s ;j telecommunications construction offices' equipped with
a M be constructed in Neustrelitz in addition to the
III "jhere, and that a main post office and a long
ftstance't4brAONW ce were to be constructed in Cottbus in 1954, A
school bui a total of 3,960,000,ltstmarks under, construction
since early 1954 on Rohrteichstrasse in Leipzig was to be completed by
December 1956. Dr. Schroeder (fnu), former state secretary, was to become
chief of this school,
In August 1953,
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the Kffhaeuserhuette in Artern near 5UX1-H U M
rik Ammendorf ahd Sachsenwerk deberg plants,
three-axle truck chassis with 3 engines have
so far been received from the USSR for the construction of mobile
decimeter relay stations. These chassis were shipped to Waggonfabrik
Ammendorf where the superstructures were mounted. Kyffhaeuserhuette
produced lattice masts which were delivered to Sachsenwerk where the
vehicles were tested for water-tightness by means of showers and where
subsequently the instruments were installed. The lattice masts, 30 m high
and 30 x 30 cm in diameter, could be dismantled into 12 equal parts. An isro=-
iron plate, 2 x 2 meters large was used as base for these masts. Four crank
Yale, about 0,9 z 0.8 z t s< w w* to be iajtaU. for the anchoring ropes.
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In early November, a single-story permanent building, 8 x 10 x 4 in,
covered with roofing paper, was seen for the first time north of
Neubrandenburg on Datzberg elevation about 400 meters northeast of the 50X1-HUM
brewery. The area, about 25 to 40m,was surrounded by a palisade fence,
about 1,5 m high, and guarded by civilians. Off limits plates were
erected in the vicinity.
During the period from 15 to 24 February 1954, a radio mast was erected
on Datzberg north of Neubrandenburg. The very slim steel lattice mast,
about 60 m high and square in section, was braced at three places. Two
parab ! Aftaidw 2 m in diameter, one pointing northwest and r co%dkle
south ti w1 attached to the top of the mast. One of
the r wM M 'about one meter below the *NM . ##A
obsta It is were fixed to the top and at about ha' OW Vp ow