EXTRACTS FROM MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS IN OPTICAL INDUSTRIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013300240005-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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.East Germany
Extracts from lOetings of Directors in.
Optical Industries
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(LISTED BELOW)
OP THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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1. VEB Optik Carl Zeiss. Jena
DATE DISTR. 25 August 1952
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a. At a managerial conference the attention of the
delegates was drawn to the Fact that in the 16th number of the Foreign
Trade Newsv'reference was made to the production of four beam cathode
ray oscillographs in Czechoslovakia,
b, Reference was also made to the wide appreciation that Carl Zeiss
apparatus was enjoying among the western nations, in particular
Britain, the U.S.A., and Western Germany. The Carl Zeiss Lumipan was
especially esteemed as a standard by which other optical apparatus was
judged.
c. Regarding the recent typhoid outbreak in the works, it was established
that there had been no cases during the three weeks preceding the
meeting,and since the temporary protective measures were hindering
the whole working of the apprentices''wing, it was requested that these
to 11ftodo '
d. ~ In regard to cameras, it was stated that efforts will be made to combine
the various &heap types, Novar.. Me ista.r,Pololyt9 Trioplan, etc., into
one type. As for the new type camera, the prismatic telescopic camera,
it was reported that delivery would start in 1954.
2. VEB Mechanik Askania Teltow
a. At a conference it was declared that the critical
points in the plan i ent for March and the third quarter of
1952 were.-
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Shaking tables
Impact testing machines
Compasses
b. There was an acute lack of ball bearings for the ivt testing
machines, and the works concerned were once more urged to get on
with the job.
c. Urgently needed electric motors would only be delivered by March 20
from the VEM Elktromotorenwerk, Hartha. NGA-wire was also lacking
for the production of control boxes (Heglerschraenke).
d. Additional materials urgently needed were:
Tachometers for logs
Valves for export orders
Cast metal housings and covers for Pumps
Magnets for compasses
e. Technical projects
1. The supervision of the development and1construction of
metereological apparatus in Sonneberg.
2. Testing the manufacture of synchronized motors in the
glass factory.
Cou nent: - Not further identified.
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