DEVELOPMENT OF RADIO CONTROL UNITS AT MVD INSTITUTE IN MOSCOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007000450009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Levcloolrent of :.ac1io Control Units at T.TJO
Institute in "o--coy
PLACE.
ACQUIRED
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OF THU RNITdD YTATIiS. W.THIN THE MEANING OF TITLA 19. SECTIONS 703
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CUSSIFICATION
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:-c'eioprnent of Radio Control Units at MVD Special Object No 14 in Moscow
1 In late March 1947, a group was composed at Bautzen of 37 German higi
frequency experts and gyroscope technicians who had been taken
prisoners. Otto Schmidt, former chief of the development laboratory
for arq radio sets of the C Lorenz Firm, headed this group of which
Christian Sorge, former technical manager of the Friesecke & Hoepfne.-
Firm, became dep?)ty chief. Otto Schmidt informed the group of the
Soviet plan according to which they were to develop radio sets at
Radeberg, Saxony which, in turn, would considerably improve their
situation. Even before a development order had been received, long
lists had to be prepared of the laboratory equipment required.
Colonel Ivanov (fnu) interrogated the prisoners in reference to the
personal history they had turned in previously and asked them whether
they were willing to work loyally for the USSR. In respect to the
Soviet promises, all members of the group accepted this offer. In
early July, the group and five additional convicts from Torgau
were deported to the Moscow Butyurka Prison.
2, In August 1947, seven men of the group were transferred from the
prison and in la`;,e September 1947, 29 convicts were transferred to
a new small camp in Novogorsk. In February 1948, a second group
:-.omposed of 25 German prisoner experts arrived at Novogorek. This group
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