RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL BUREAUS, BERLIN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R003600090011-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 2, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION SECRET ?
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION RE-PORT
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; Germany (I.ussian Zone)
SUBJECT Russian Scientific-Technical Bureaus, Berlin
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFO.
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REPORT NO.
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1. v Belyayeva who is in charge of financial matters and material procurement
at the Rectifier Bureaus, Berlin..Obersoh8neweide, 141lhelminenhofstraase 83-
s5, will leave for Russia on 20 July 1949 and be suc ed by`'Dorgopolov
,
former chief of Bureau No. 22 in Leipzig. ;rs: ? (formerly of the
Rectifier Bureau) left for Russia at the beg g of .
2, The German chief of personnel at the Rectifier Bureau, Herr Harting, gave
up his post under 'pressure of the SED Plant Group and vent back to his former
job as a policeman. Although Harting was a member of the SED, he was so
inept that even his own party decided to remove him. His position was filled
by Herr Puls, a 25-year-old member of the 50 and a former mechanic at the
Rectifier Bureau. The chief of the SED Plant Group at the Rectifier Bureau
is Herr Ysdessling.
3. The SMA is exerting strong pressure through the DWK on Herr Dobke, German
chief of the Rectifier Bureau, to take up negotiations with a Polish com-
mission regarding the construction of a rectifier plant in Poland, where
the latest techniques are to be employed. Dobke's point of view is that if
he consents to hire himself out to the Poles he will become very unpopular with
"lost German firms, which are very interested in the Elbe-Berlin project, So
far Dobke has. used delaying tactics because he does not want to eormiit himself.
His material position, on the other hand, has vJorsened since he lives in the
British sector but earns only East marks, which he has to exchange at a ratio
of . 5 to l or 6 to 1.
4, Dr, Eckardt will move into the Oberspreewerke, (08W) Berlin-Oberseh&neiweide,
0stendstrasse 1-5 as soon as buildings are completed to accommodate him.**
The electronic microscope has been d.' esemb2ed and the cast iron parts were
sent to a firm in Borlin which is to make molds of them for further c ,,stings
of the parts. Dr. Eckardt will be engaGed at OX-1 in the construction of electronic
microscopes. He already has an wiofficial order for an electronic microscope
from Dr. Richard'L2liller, chief of the silicone dept, of the Heyden chemical
factory in Dresden?Radebeul, who needs it for research on silicones. Dr. i:;ekardt
will probably be financed by the D MK and already has taken up connections with
that office.
5, Dr. bckardt had been working mainly on the development of an electrolyte--ce tea^
for MW Berlin-Obersch8neweide, Jilhelminenhofstrasse 66-67.' At the beginning
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of 1948, the Russian Eavy ordered the develop2nent of an electrolyto..i ter
(J1ektro2yt4Zdh1er) to control the- charge of a storage battery. At the and
Of f areb, 1948 the order was more precisely formulated and } FEL1 gee told to
base the development on the principle of the 1 rdrogen meter and especjAl],y
th? batter meter Form L4 constructed b3T 5iemena-Schutekert for that psurposeo
No specific datawere given concerning the oapaesty of the meter to be developed
or the batteries it was to control. Iioweve rs, the Russian monai;ement of the
EM, agreed to the suggestion to fix the capacity at 12,000 ampere houre'with
a discharge period of from 2 to 3 hours, The nominal tension (NennslaMung)
of the meter, inoludix the tension drop (Spannungsabfall) of the requLrod
series resistaance.(Vorulderstand), was not to exceed 150 mV.
Patent bureau No. 17, Berlin-Friedrichofeldo, :4hlosstrasse 32a has lent
out forma to technicians of the Rectifier Bureau requestin
their
ti
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coopera
on
in patent matters such as the evaluation of the various patents submitted to
'-%it. Aetdally, the patent bureau handed these forms tad Belyayev over a year
ago for distri.butionp but ho kept them in his desk and forgot about them,
7. The order for the construction-of a rectifier installation for are light
furnaces for the Chemiewerk at Leuna has finally bow concluded. At the some
time, another order for a 7/6 rectifier for the. t'laLzwerrk at I L ohmtseer near
Brandenburg has also come in and thg_RectjLfjer Bureau will be buoy until the
end of this year. the Leona order orj.ginated with the Ltini,stry
for Chemistry of the U5M which contacted the linistry for the 1.2ectro-Industry
under which the Rectifier Bureau is working. The inistry for the Electra-
Industry then passed the order on to the Rectifier Bureau. Personnel at the
Rectifier Bureau think that the Bureau will eventually be turned over to an
SAG and subsequently will b?eomo people-vanedp a phase of development through
which most former technical bureaus have passed. The future site of the' Rectifier
Bureau will probably be the Laboluerke, Oberapree, Berlin?Obetaohdnewaide,
Wilholminenhofstrasse 76-77.
8. Another bureau belonging to the la'1'O/;i is Bureau No. 19 located on the promises
of the AEG Fabriken ffir Traneformatoren tnid Hochapsnnungsschalter, Berlin-
Obersohbneweide, lVilhelminenhofctrasse 83-85. This bureau, which is rather
small is engaged. mainly in problems of electrical gelding or the construction
of welding machines,
Comment*" B yev is, probably identical with Capt. Belayev mentionod.in
v a report dated 1.2 October 1948 as assistant tftlimov, Chief of the Rectif`.i.er.
Bureau at that time.
Co , n c Dr. Eokar&1s transfer to 031 17 confirmed in a report dated
7 July 1949 which mentions that ha has received an order for the otnstruction of
5 electronic microscopes.
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