EAST GERMAN TRUNK CABLE SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A046600150001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 18
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 5, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLACSIFICATION SECHM
COUNTRY East Cex9n r
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORI1
O F R ATIO REPORT CD NO.
SUBJECT East G Erman Trunk Cable System
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
trig OOCU!EEN, T' cor1rASH9 INFORMATION AFFECTING THE 5EATIONAI CEFBNSE
OP THE UTI1T5O STAT[S VIYNIN T@C MEAfING OF INC ESPIONAGC ACT 90
ii 3 c.. 31 AND 33.AS ARE'1O#O. 'To TRAt19H19SION OR THE RLVEI.ATION _?
o P !TS cOt~f: y a:: t.':: :a?: 07'~,01- o c1e ed .he
cozpletion Of tth "Ring around P1&7 section of the
trunk-cable syster o Subsequently the Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications (MIPF )) Issued og-ders to its district
headquarters that they release 180 to .oco unication
engineers by 1 January 1955 and fake- available 630 ka of
long=distance cables, 290 telepho e sets in addition to
55 teleprinters for this project, Construction t'iork was
started in 1955.
20 Status of~, the 'Rin around Berrli a'T i' u~ak Cabs e~ : s-
ao The "Ring around Berli n." trunk-cable systao consists of
two ring syatam.s:
(1) Trunk Cable No 201 A The dismantled Biazer:thal -
Nuencheberg section of this line has .bean replaced
by a district cable.
(2) Trunk Cables Nos 161 and 160. These cables are
concentric lines. Between Biesenthal and Oranienburg
the ring was closed by Trunk Cable No '156 chile the
Gaps between Oranienburg and Nauen were scheduled
to be bridged by a decimetar-wave connection and
between Nauen and Pgtsdaru (V.ildpark) by a atyrofloN-
type cable.
The new trunk cables were laid at a depth of 100 to 120
centimeters exclusively along field-paths and forest-roads
Cables crossing waterways were buried in the river bed and
secondary connections are envisaged for important cables
on bridges and at river-crossing points.
be The following repeater stations were newly built or
reconstructed for the "Ring around Berlin" cable system:
(1) Repeater station Straugberg
The building of th= station was scheduled to be
co .Irked by July 1?5`~ A m11~' GI; y u it Is stationed at ' I 5?;F .. '.'.'