OFFICE FOR SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL COOPERATION (WTZ)

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Office for Scientific-Technical
Cooperation (M)
COUNTRY East Germany / Soviet Bloc Nations REPORT
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
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This material contains informatlaa aRsstni the le-
tlonal Defense of the United Sinus within the mean-
lag of the IMptonaie Taws, TWO 1$, US.C. Rees. 79R
and 791, the tnnemledaa Cr rnetatlsa of which in
any manner to an unautLortud psssa is prohibited
by law.
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1. The Office for Scientific-Technical Cooperation with the Sov-.iet Union and
the Peoples' Democracies (Buero fuer Wissenschaftlich-Technic,,che Zusammen-
arbeit mit der Sowjet-Union and den Volksdemokratien - WTZ) i.s'one of the
subordinate units of the Eaet German State Planning Commission. It is
headed by Bernd Weinberger. His predecessor was Gaebler (Thu). 25X1
a. Weinberger is reported to hold the rank of deputy chairman An the
State Planning Conission and is responsible only to Bruno I,euschner,
its chairman. Erwin Kerber, also of the SPC, often confers with
Weinberger.
b. The offices are located at Koepenickerstrasse 80-82. The ground floor
of this building contains assembly and conference rooms. The ;second
floor contains the WTZ offices. The Central Office for Resear?h and
Technology (ZAFT) occupies all of the third and part of the fourth
floors. The remainder of the fourth floor and all of the fifth floor
are occupied by the Office for Standardization.
2. The WTZ coordinates requests for scientific-techniral information received
from East Bloc countries on the one hand and from East German enterprises
and institutes on the other. An enterprise formulates its requests ttnd
passes them to its ministry, which sends them on to the WTZ. The planning
and coordination section of the WTZ checks the requests for accuracy of
terminology and procedure. The requests are then sent for coordination
to such other agencies subordinate to the State Planning Commission au ZAFT,
th? Q"FfiCe' for"'S.andardization, the Office for Measures. ents and Weights, and
the Office for Patents and Inventions. When the requests are returned from
the coordinating agencies, they are sent by the WTZ to the trade delegation
of the embassy of the country to which the requests are to be sent.
3. Requests coming from other Soviet Bloc countries follow these channels it
reverse.
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4. The section for planning and coordination is subdivided into eight
secretariats, one for each Soviet Bloc country. The individual
secretariats supervise the processing and coordination procedures of
both domestic and foreign requests for the country for which the
secretariat is responsible.
5. Two Soviet officials who have been in personal contact with the WTZ
are Gulayev (fnu), who is identified as the chief of the trade dele-
gation it the Soviet Embassy in Berlin, and Shkotnikov (fnu), his
deputy.
6. ZAFT is to be reduced in the 25X1
near future. Its clerical help-is being gradually dismissed and its
scientific and technical personnel are to be assigned to the WTZ.
7. There are offices in the various technical ministries which are
charged with WTZ-type functions and'are responsible only to their
respective ministers and to the WTZ. In larger enterprises, such
as the Leuna Works, +here is a resident engineer-scientist responsible
for WTZ duties and subordinate to the WTZ of the pertinent ministry.
All correspondence pertaining to this field is classified as V ertrauliche
Verschlusssache (VVS)(corresponding to a Confidential classification)
or as eheime V ersohlusesache (GVS)(corresponding to a Secret classifi-
cation).
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T ekhnoproaaimport.
Convent. Ulyanov (fnu) was reported
chief of the Soviet Trade Delegation in East Berlin. He was also
mentioned as the representative for the Soviet trading agency,
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