TUBE PRODUCTION AT THE VEB WERK FUER FERNMELDEWESEN HG, BERLIN-OBERSCHOENEWEIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900500007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
PLACE ACQUIRED
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing. of the Espionage Iwws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of i'hich in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
Tube Production at the VEB Werkfuer DATE DISTR.
Fernmeldewesen HF,Berlin-ObersdFhoeneweide
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This is UNEVALUATED Information
THE, SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In 1953, soviet representatives criticized the quality of-metal ceramic tubes
(Metallkeramikroehren) manufactured by the Werk fuer Fernmeldewesen HF, valued
at 4,000,000 DME. The Soviet representatives stated that all of the tubes were
defective, but the manufacturers replied that only 300,000 DME's worth of the
tubes were defective. Negotiations in this matter were conducted with H'lyanov
(phonetic spelling )9 the Berlin representative of the Soviet trading agency
Tekhnopromimport.,.Fifty of the rejected tubes were returned from Moscow. At
the BF plant it was found that 28 of the returned tubes were usable. The HF
plant decided to consult the East German Ministry of Domestic and Foreign Trade
in the.matter. They produced certificates from various satellite countries
testifying that tubes delivered by the HF plant were of good quality. The
production of these. tubes was greatly reduced by the HF plant and was to be
suspended entirely in the fourth quarter of 1954.
2. 3.5 percent of all radio tubes.'delivered in 1953 were rejected. In 1953,
19500.,000 tubes of the 6-series were delivered to VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg;
of these tubes, 2 percent were rejected.
3. In early 1954, it was learned at the HF plant that all picture tubes manu-
factured at the plant developed spots about 10 mm in diameter on the screens
after 8 to 10 hours of operat4pn. 6,000 picture tubes stored at the plant
were rejected by Soviet acceptance engineers Yeroshenko (phoridtic spelling)
who was attached to the HF plant, and Krev)rokov ( phonetic spelling), who
was at Sachsenwerk Radeberg.
4. Work in all departments of the HF plant was controlled by a commission of
specialists from various nationalized. enterprises.
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