ESTABLISHMENT OF A LEITKOLLEKTIV (DIRECTING COLLECTIVE) TO INVESTIGATE INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES AND RESEARCH INSTALLATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007300680001-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 14, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CEI=TRAL II TEII,IGEr1CE AGENCY
II RMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Hest Oer -
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
This material contains information affecting the
National Defense of the United States within the
meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C.
p? Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revel-
ation of which in any manner to an unauthorized
person is prohibited by law.
Utiblishment of a leitkollektiv DATE DISTR.
(DthNcting Collectivs to axvestigat0
Inalmaotrial ,Enterprises and Reses>h NO. OF PAGES 2
Instalations
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In April 1955. the 941113tzl 0011q c#.ttee of the 1 isaea lied in in
14-July-1955
dsozw orirtriag the propwstim of a paper entitled "Doaumt for
l improving Aessaresh and De elopiMt Work in the ]Ut" o Two f unotic m fries of 25X1
the Central Ccmlmittees Paohte ach (fnu) and Dlr. Horst Perschels
appointed as the Persons responsible for carz9ing out the projecito Both
of thus men taork in the Dep r rent f!r Machine Construction in the Central
Cowdttee o MW Central Ooamd tts e further appointed two special pl eni-
poteatrinriea from the MinistzV for General Machine Cowetruotivn to assist
in the project. lb are .8 e ' tom to : nical chief of the 111th 25X1
Alslmisistration for Prscisi 'Joahmil,is and Option in this Minitoctry0 MA
PwAket (fnu),P deputy prodetcticn chief, of !Mein Administration HRT0
9e in c o---DCUon with this Fojeota the Centael. Committee ordered the eest*blist-
>Meent of a Dr ,ecting Co l lee vre (l eitkol1d tiv), which isa to consist of
leading figures farcm int try and f m (goat ministries. The Directing
eOtiVV is entausted With the task of tstue lr3ng mast Oetcrosoo ent+szrprd:eee/II 25X1
and research offices. Mw following sere the leading personnel of the
Directing Collective8
CMoilef l a.. to elnical chief of Main Adminia tion for Pre lesion
Mechanics and Option 25X1
DepwAV -Pramke (fm),, deputy production chief of Main k__nistration MT
Ca-worker rs - Dr. Mathias: eltte rs development chief of VEB Dlrs]owid Te].tow
Dorm Zapt (fnu)? plant meor*ger of W Berlin
Stein (t )9 p l a t e m a > a a g e r of V 3- Leipzig
Lautenbich (flit ) s pmt wwoAW of V r M2 P*z werk Z.woenits o
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3o The Urecting Collective has tmd r it four Work Collectives (Arbeitsm
kelI O tilve) which assist In oearrying out the tasks aasirod; by the Central
Coeeeittee to the Dd,recting CnllectivNeo The Work Collectives do not have
am apsadsl ticn0 The chief of one of the Work Collectives is Jens
P~ Rabat, laboratory chief it VW IWT Fu nkw k Koepenioko The np-es
of other persons in the Work Collectives were not scertained,
$o The reason the Central Conroittee ordered the establislaent of the Directing
Collective is based an the extremely poor work done by &at Oezean plants
and research officeeaa For instances in 19% 50 million Dim were mele
a ilable to Main Ad th* ty"A 11 n EPT for daavelopmental work. Development was
only 44 percent 04PP a' b 90 percent of the funds allocated was
awed.
From ? 14 JW##- VW 7 'sa "I wn Iaraeden was allocated about five million
F Nd spient'of cearersm, bit during the entire period the plant
#o IICeiree eaten one usable type of comm. Tats Owftsl da*awittee
discovered that in the, prsoision-mechenics,/optica vector of ,F
industry only 36 percent of the devices produced were of a quality
Moped enough for . ortg and that in the electrotechnology sector only 8
peovent of the devices produced could be eorportedo
15,
fte tollcadng are some of the East 0rerman plants and offices 'thioh are to
be inveetigatets
Main Administration for Precision Meahenies and Option
Mein Administration 1 T
The planning ate of the Centaal Office for AsseaDoh and
Technoloilly (ZAFT) of the State Py'Gc~c*+!:asks.
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NW Qera te= and Pagelw.rk Taltow (formerly Askania)
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