WORK ON THE PROXIMITY FUSE AT THE ARMY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300170007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

INFORM
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COWRY Czeaboalankia
SUBJECT work on the rr ,dmity Pass at the
Technical Inetii%1 A6a 11 11 -
PUCE
ACQUIRED
DATE.OF IN
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L. In (November 1946 the Czechoslovak Arsy Teolntical Institute (M 9o5ensky
Technick, Uatav) in Pod wkly (Zlectophyaios Depsrtrent) received two units
of the tuoximity fuse fron GerrarW. One projectile had a reen and the
other a pink point. The fuses more disaesss bled in the laboratory and, their
parts carted. The firm Tenla in Prague was giiien the task of duplicatia the
fuses. It in believed that the firm Daimon got the order to raw.itaeture a
short-tfr.-e battery. So far, this order has not been carried out, hoverer.
2. The nroxinity fuse, so far, has been constructed only in the laboratory.
German riniature tubes rade during the war, Arsrioaq tubes, and tubes sup-
plied by Teala were us, 3d in the rr6cevs. The laboratory testes wore not suo-
ceesful, since the sensitiveness of the American-made proximity flies was not
reached. The greatest difficulty as caused by the short-tines battery.
3. Research uork tats carried out by Ing. Tiandrick, a German specialist, who is
in charge of the laboratory. C
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the, new bu4 lding.
till ;:arch 19412, as electrical equipment and arpsra -bo _3aatalled in
About August 1947, InR. Rraan Golicke, a Russian national, probably of 0ermsn
ori'in, who me eixployed at the Array Technical Institute, not a furlough in
order to be able to visit his . parents in or near *Munich. On this occasion
he got In contact with a Oeroan engineer from Bavaria vho sold him all the
blueprints necessary for the production of short-time batteries for the sum
of 250,000 !4. These blueprints wsre handed over to the Czechs at the Wi3denau
customs station near As in October or TJoveribsr 1947 in the presence of an offi-
cer of the Czech intelli enco service.
5. The work on this project was held up for about six months when the Podnok]y
Branch of the A=7 Technical Institute (9YU - uo jensl - Technicky U stay) moved
to Praha-Nebanice, Jenerellca 54 (the building of the forrar Invalidoyna). The
!ovircg was completed in February 194g. The ?x)rk in the laboratory vas delsyed
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. Ing. Handrick is also - orkinc~ on the Donau, Berlin and Anebaoh radar equip-
-a ;t. An Installation of the Berlin type bas been erected and tested, bcit
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