DEVELOPMENTS AT OPTIK CARL ZEISS VEB, JENA, AND OPTIK SCHOTT UND GENOSSEN BEB, JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011300040001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CLASSIFICATION O FICI L B 0N'P.Ir
COUNTRY s
SUBJECT , . c q r- gg;i ?; Op ?ik- M,1 Z Ls' WB
INFO.
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DATE DISTR. ;j. ril 1952
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM 15 PROHIBITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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ci-t=-1.ii&n e Fgi:,eerz 'yin Optik Schott
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< leT?L glen e invent
Q. ?a~ L-r 1a (trae erei P.la tten) These plate,-,,, needed by Eiectro
deohar a,:. NJ, -t twe a? d i..:~t%ar orated there in pats destined fox
'J r.si.on bu-1lt. at Sa# hse wa:.k Radebeul ' `' ),halve :,?.ow passed the research
`? L.; _.^. z. s fir?st r~s have: 'xe to, '~ ?~ 4,twe
ti;~~:~fla:~.or of ~,:~ho,e~ ~:?~~~.. The specimens Bowi i.s~s,
f or? appr oval o : o rt pl y has yet been. received. from Mittwweida o
b o Ttdav_isio: s een discs .lai Sc:hi ms,Sohe,ibew~
i) ~i.:rr e the k, gir "..r .:dig of 19;51 there have been. argument;s between Schott
anti C'-erlossen a n-r .the S?.cahse: ewe: 19 Radetse ;_; about the delivery to -the
latter of t-eleva.s:io screen discs b These discs g 232 x 18'7 mm., are
to be bui_ t into cathode ray. tubes
I n of I r to produce a clc a:rr tee" evision p:ici ure, these discs require
a high E P Ord of cutting and poli.shinnz to be 'bubble-free (Blasenm
ham; ,' Fo,.mer:Iy, two slim plate glass di.s+? s (Spiegel mGlas-Scheiben)
lr.fr a.ct Y 9ik- %s . (oui t (;1,i ;htsprerhg aete)
wen cem ,~-c d together" for these d .ses b As, a;t present there is no
plate gV as ? (Spi.egel-Glas) ar-d former reserv ^s are exhausted a seatrch is
being mid for a s lbstitute. Trials axe being made using Jenae ?-01as
C'Le K 1 ), a drawn glass . .As this drawn glass has a mat
sur".fac , 'tthe -L ,es mat be groizad and polishe .a
3) A r3 pm t; of 4 50 of these d .scs has !recently been sent ?to Bacbsenwerk
: adn b g. if this dtil..ivery is satisfactory,, 10,000 more mist ire
de i~ va ced by, .the end of 1951 a ?d. 60,000 must be delivered in 1952
C? f ?Sul t; is being ex erienced in. getting
;necesy"?;?" F Zai m,~t Ica this a a atus
Commer7 t % Smelting foreman .
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.. I I u?o + t o lrobat;.ly Sachserw irk Rad..eherg (S. s. Kiel) I
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