SUSPENSION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF TELEVISION TRANSMITTERS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008000480004-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 23, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY East Germany
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
Suspension of the Development
of Television Transmitters
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23 September 1955
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1. The ]last German Government decided early in . ly 1.955 to put a stop to
the development work on television senders which, for the most part, was
being carried out in V Work fuer Fernmeldewesen (WF), Berlin-
Obersahoenevsidee The order was put into affect immediately. It was
felt that it w Ald be more economical to import television transmitters
from the West rather than continue the costly development work in last
Germany.1
2. At present, television transmitters are in operation in the Stadthaus,
East Berlin} Chemnitz (Karl-Marx-Stadt), Leipzig, and on Brocken in the
Harz mountains. These transmitters were all built by Sachsenwerk
Radeberg. The construction of two further television transmitters at
Inselsberg,Theringia and Marlow, Mecklenburg is proceeding and is
scheduled to be completed in 1955.
3. The present East Berlin transmitter on. the new Stadthaus (City Hall) is to
become inactive after the completion of the new transmitting unit in the
Prenzlauer Berg area and is to be used solely for experimental transmissions
of the Fernsehze -tram Berlin (Television Center Berlin).
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