DEVELOPMENT OF TROPICS-PROOF INSTALLATIONS FOR EAST GERMAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006100010003-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 14, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
;COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Development of Tropics-Proof
Installations for East German
Telecommunications Industry
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1. The East German Ministry for Machiiie Cors'tructipn, in early January 1955,,
issued an order to the Central Laboratory 'for Telecommunications Tech-
nology (Zentrailaboratorium fuer Fernmeldotechnik - ZLF) in Berlin-
Treptow to start immediately the developme# of an install tion for then. purpose of investigating the tropic climate'r$sistanoe (Tropenfestigkeit)
of non-automatic, semi-automatic and fully automatic telecommunications
equipment. This order was issued because df',the'fact that the East
German tele ons industry had a relatively high number of export 25X1
orders from ed China. All those orders specified that the
equipment to be delivered was to be tropic-resistant. None of the East
German enterprises engaged inthe production of telecommunications.,
..equip;?ent had an installation for investigation of tropic climat4 resist-
ance. So far, the equipment destined for a ort to tropical regions had
been made tropic-proof very superficially with'the aid of an allegedly
tropic-proof lacquer. The lacquer so far used in East Germany had turned
out ,.~o be of no value.
2. The main construction department of the ZLF, in compliance with the order
from the Ministry, started to build an installation,' in the form of`a
large aquarium. It was, however, :.. r. ;, doubted by experts that this
installation would be able to fulfill its 'purpose. In rid-J~ue
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repr-esentatjres of the. ZLF had a conference with' officials of the `Min-
istry for Machine Construction in order to find'ways of achieving the
required purpose. It was planned to o ll tropics expe~rts to East Dermany,
from abroad.
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