"KARL ZEISS, JENA"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100090064-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: January 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

rvim Inv
. 51-118
DEC 1951
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Soviet Zone)
SUBJECT K
rl Zeiss, Jena
PLACE ACQUIRED
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DATE ACQUIRED
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DATE (oF INFO.) Aug- Sep 53
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l.. In Aug and Sep 1953 the Karl Zeiss Jena works manufactured 18,722 field
glasses, types 7 by 50, 10 by 50 and 6 by 30;.2,340'of these were single
glasses. About 3,000 lenses and prisms were manufactured.
2. The number of lenses for different cameras is hard to assess because the
setup is :urrently changing. The Soviet-Union, IHG Dresden and Zeiss
Ikon of'Dresden.are buyers.. A licensed Leica lea is fabricated for
the Soviet Union. The SU is also the chief customer for moving picture
camera lenses.. Wide-angle lenses.and telescopic lenses are also built
to Soviet. , orders.,. The latter is not the ordinary telescopic lens, but
, onewith a focal length of more than 15 cm.
3. Twelve movie outfits with loud speakers and amplifiers were delivered to the
Soviet Union in Sep 53 . The sets have a production value of 7,000-marks.
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without.. Twenty-four tubes were manufactured in SFp.53.
The production of optical sighting devices of the AL type has not yet
been resumed. No more curve potentiometers are being manufactured. A.
gyro sight has gone into production which now is built in series: 50 were
The production of pict(1re (converter) tubes has been resumed after a short
stop while preparations were made for series production. Current production
is of portable apparatus with dimensions as follows: length, about 40 cm; width,
about 30 am; height, about 30 cm. The shutter is arranged to fold from
factured in sop 53 . The production is done only by specially selected
people. The Plana are,of Soviet origin.
6. It. is now reported that an infraradar search apparatus developed by Zeiss
Jena will no longer be built there. The series production appears to have
been taken over by another plant in the Soviet Zone.
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7a It appears that the entire newly built block will be used as a research
and development department. The engineers returned from the Soviet
Union are closely guarded. Their"have the greater part of the research
department under them.
8. Zeiss Jena delivers monthly about 200 infrared filters with an average
diameter of 35 cm to the Kaloriferwerk in Dessau. It appears that this
Dessau plant produces lamps and searchlights for in ?rared light.
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