1. RADIO INSTALLATIONS IN THE DDR DURING 1950 2. LETTER FROM VP TO PLANKOMMISSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500190001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 22, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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~~) .11111 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 25X1A
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
CWNTRY GE:rs:maany (Russian Zone)
DATE DISTR. 22 Sep 51
` J 13JECT 1,. Radio Install!, tion.s in the DDR during 1950 NO. OF PAGES 1
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? Letter from VP to Plankomunission
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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1. The following installations were either completed or put into operation. in
11)50
a. One 2 KW stand-by transmitter each for Berlin and Dresden have been com-
pleted and are now in operation.
b. The tower on the Brocken Hotel has been completed with an ultra-short-wave
r.ntenxn.. `t`wo short-wave and ultra-shortwave transmitters have been tried
experimentally.
a. ..5 special receivers have been built for radio stations at this time.
:h.'he RPT was not in a position to complete these receivers and they had
to be f1nished by a private firm in Adlershof.
0. One single-bank-receiver under interzonal agreements.
One panoramic receiver built by RIFT.
f. Fourteen radio monitoring sets for radio receiving stations have been
' nstrzllod in Koenig. swru terhausen, Bunlim, an'. Schwerin. There are two
short-wave transmitters in Da,mgerten-Riebnitz which were formerly in the
1 F in Berlin. Because of this, a reconstructed Webrmacht transmitter
is being used by Berlin.
Plauen, Reiehenbach, and Schleusingen each have one 800 AAatt and two shcr t-
wAve transmitters. The Rf'T is not in a position to complete the transmitter
in Schwerin so that this transmitter can operate in the ?_00-600 meter band.
2. An undated letter from the 11auptverwaltunr of the VP to the Plankommission
cf the DDR 'Hinistry of Interior asks that 22,200 German marks be allotted
for the completion of the telephone not of the northern border.
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