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GERMAN RADAR AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT SEIZED AND DEVELOPED BY THE RUSSIANS

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CREST [1]
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General CIA Records [2]
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP82-00457R003600120008-5
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RIPPUB
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S
Document Page Count: 
7
Document Creation Date: 
December 14, 2016
Document Release Date: 
February 21, 2001
Sequence Number: 
8
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Publication Date: 
November 1, 1949
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REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY N "MATI N REPORT SUBJECT .,German Radar and L'lectronic z e ." 'LtR,~ 41" and "17 42" Rader :'ets Jq riu itJ.tp produetlon in B !tLI since 1 ;424 Obsolete long-range warning set; wave length' .I.5 to 1.4 m, x "Sri 1 .1, Sep ` s= '_~'quipment Seized and ,Devq~ aped:' '0 UAL u15& 25X1A 25X1A hATF. 1ISTR. 1.' Novo 1949 NO. OF PAGES NO. OF ENCLS. I (LISTED BELOW) 25X1A SUPPLEMENT" T ~~pnaT ntn Plant it 35ri38 urontheimerstrsssc 3 n quan?!d ty production in y`"~a LI" since 19430 arid 1111,0 T"'' ,B AC l` n ader uantity production in. 131`,'L1a1. since D its- 1:4 do T e!' "PE.k LTP,"- rtadar AOet r Ate: b .a . 4. set u'.in a serviceable condition in the Czech .'"?TU" Prate rpe and blue.pi-ints secured b,,. the :3oviefis TT..? c2 6 tote `Control Mechanisrasfor :3earch1.irhts , T/C ONTROL - U.S. on nc i1a . ONLY 25X1X STATE raavtt , NSRb DISTRIBUTION AIR5 [ARMYi-l Ar , _EE xt uint t roduetion in .a LI11., further, develope6 in BE)OS. iwl, Doaament no, _~ -No Cbapge In Klass. 0 :0 Declassifcd CONFIDE CLASSIFI CATION SEC Jed: 0 1031.7_ CWRDP:82,700457R0036100120008-5 lawS.: CPi inpd Tar TS S At,: Hilt 7 .2 Wye, Or .0ot- Approved Foi,R&; UDAW/d7Lt?( L4 Ra t4 8Q0 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY f,, Remote Control 1?h:iU7 GG71 Tie TLec~ai v n ; Gent Presumably for bombs and's'-?missiles; {^'iave length about 25 am., modulated T,,ith audio 'rer.uenei?s, developed by the Teletunken Firm, The licensed construction of these sets ,^ras prepared in late in 1944. Incomplete sets Dui` records .'ere secured by the ovi ets in Submarine Sound `i'rons*_ tter~_1 3-set of Hype 11A-205", "A-20611 T der, :crCYr,a oc;y c es "..n quantity production in D' LIC,* since 1943. 3ets and blue- prints secured by the 3oviets in I'T LI-:1. Reconstructed in tl _e ]3:.~LIN KC ,'rE2ICl; GLZ -.A Institute since additional sets -pore not available in I3: 'after the dismantling. ho 11ST-Set" Submarine sound transmitter,, receiver and indicator for the location of submarines and nbdfields. Peak voltage about 500 watt, 15 k .locycleso In quantity production in M`L'!TJ"I since 1944; sets and blueprints secured by the Soviets in B'.W, LI11. is Set" Variable proximity fuse developed by !V. RIECY17.. --_7 for the "Zaunkoeni?," s,.ta In quantity production in W.111LIN and B ',T a; Installed in torpedoes at the "Pintsch" Firm and the S" ICL:AU 1t, uto-1."pion" ''taut. Sets ahd complete production records secured by the )ovlets. A demonstration model of the ZaunkooniC:" set as set up by Jr. K OCEi J . (deported to L':$IITGL Aj in October 1946) and by f?raduate :-'ngineer ' 18CI ITZ in the GL i'L Institute ('-.310) in I3L Lii -KOLr''! ?ICKo J. 11111 6511 Set, further development in ]3L`1: E of the "R11.-set", designed for the aircraft launched type "LTF-5b" torpedo a The first.labo- rator; prototypes "ere test fired in G0T~`:::_Tj7E- TE'IX *GRTTr;rD in ate 19440 ~~Fc units of an improved version of the set "ere produced by the ciid of the ".-ar, but test launehin from air- craft 7ere not undertaken. Prototype;; and incomplete blueprints :,ere secured h,;. the Joviots. These prototypes ,Were set up at the Institute and the inco.taniete blueprints ,fare supplemented there. k, "S-3011 )esi~',nated ~1?1''~`-TI" in auto-.tic pilot for the "LTF-5b" aircraft-launched torpedo; developed in L~ : ='_`r, ::bout 600 sets riere riariufactured 1' the end of the --Sax, ?lest-launched in GOTJ7 i=.aT+'T G??TTL D and since iebruary 1949 lu _L1'\fl -'U!'0DL0 'he results '!ere good -hen launched froL1 tubes; only fc tests -ere riade in launcb~in from aircraft. .lots and technical records secured by the .3)oviets In 1L I'he sets r we thoroughly exanined and a technical description ? ,as dra=.?n up at the E Institute and at the '"TU branch Yalant (Czechoslovakia.). ; C 2_c,'t _CC.'' Tfl0L/UJ C~':i'IC I,: .LS 01 LY Approved For Release 2001/03/17 : CIA-RDP82-00457R003600120008-5 Approved For R 1'dW, O1 7M: OW-RIDMICOWR f CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY L "L ;t~u~ ITS" 5et to ent.bla a torpedo to seek its targets by means of a 'ire connection from the submarine. Jeveldped in W RLIL Initial tests 'ere ,nade in : OTt ITS ':t' and ''MKLTZ: ~TOLRDr in early ,.pril 110143. Incomplete prototypes and records secured by the :soviets in 3j~ ::T ,IA{, y~ecoi traction and further develop- ment in a naval institute i. F- L1L`-1:OR*Yr. The Soviets in 1946 tried in vain to obtain the cooperation of .raduate enci.neer GOai ZL, one of the leading development engineers for this set. GO-Mr-1171 now-.lives in the "'astern '71ones, mq Proximity Fuse for OnjL~~InOs "D-1:03" for 25O-key river aincs t?rith pressure capsule manufactured In e L1;.1 'ZIG I71L'3A 1a11'~p In quantity production in R'S ry'`'ITT since late l444. "IDA-105" for l,000-kC nines. Ignition by mataetio induction, ,,.,; er prosoure and, noise. Completely tested. uantity pro- duction prepared in E:l; in early 1945. ", 1Q5" for 1 r,OOO -kC riinc3, True acoustic icaiti on set rtit h reotional effect, jeveloned in not yet completed at the and of the '?rar. Nets and records secured by the oviets in P?j13r-':? vine igni- tion apparatus 1:Tere being developed in a 1..UUM:ORIT institute. l'he Soviets have secured the cooperation of some of the }T'"?IAG enfno era, iuoludin( the ..orner laboratory chief Dr. CIfISTOPE4 and Engineer .:)ULOKal, e fo::?rr:1Or constructor of the A7G. 41 ell Do PTA a C GS ri u ere.+ ;;n electrical data oornpute1? (lead value computer) for anti- aircraft artiller.-ir 11111.ts. Dev?loped at the s-;.G and .,skania plants. the jislza aia act a?'as scheduled to be manufactured under license at the ~Lv t Plant in 10,45. .o'Lu roe is not fully inf orued on the nature of the technical records sec;t.a:?ed b the oviets in the BE 21,117, AEG Plant. ;~ .. _, .. ~, oun ty of 1` I T sC T TE'.:':-BO DE i -BAMT lis~a .ranch }elan t in = zec oslovaka in order to be safe from- air attacks, aa. section of the i'3"T.LI't " LG ~'abrik rontheiq strct se'' as transferred to i n ?IC TLily' 1343 8zid installed in and T TT .aI, near textile pla:E,vs operated by the ,TA1 iC; Firm. '.ehe fo11o' sets -ore produced In this branch p1 nt: V C7 .~ ' , C- 1 I DT LC ;tY Approved For Release 2001/03/17 : CIA-RDP82-00457R003600120008-5 Approved For Rel~i$g ~CDA- D O(t45ERdCkM13Z.0008-5 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY a. Proximity fuse, ''n.Z' sets' for the "raunkoenig't type torpedo. b6 y e tt 3I -2" aircraft radar set (transmitter and. re- ceiver), C o Jets ar 1)-1Ot;; J s 'IDj. ' 05" and "AA l06". d. "PF.U" ("S 3O") for the aircraft-launched type "LTF-5bbt torpedo The rollot^'ing sets v!ere developed in the developmental labora- tories: e,, 11101-6511 for the IWF-5bllo 1. -:emote control nechenien:as for radar sets of type "A:T3TACIT", and others, as i.'e l as for the "DM* U" plant. The - larrt had about 1,000 eripioyees including foreigners (Freriohmbn, Belgians, :)itchaen, .ussians),, Czechs "ere not employed in technical departments; in other departments there. :'are only to or three of then. Ilant massager as .Jro Ing. T'iaCZi .+~'~ a 'Uerman.. fitter the German surrender the niant ,as declared Czech state property. she plant as not dariaged during the '~ng..neer Lumfi_r 3311iJT, the Czech Government _ lenipotentiary, 'jai the first to issue orders for a stock-taking of machine tools, tools, r.easuring ecuipnont and all available nater"nl. The follo-inC; rersons -ere ss,ppolnted its Czech state commis- sioners: ::r8 -3PI TDLM, Enid later 1 essrs: F'ORAY' and 1- LLUB, all from the G Bureau. Jjoviets, rand later ::zeoh engineer commissions app'egred at the plant from Our thru i:urnust 1.45 to familiarize ' ith the *themsel? :11ant. Tho iyar rnroduction formerly, conducted at the 11. .7111,1I :7oviets seized nil ori-inal blueprints and protctynes pro- duced or developed there. The Czechs removed. everything that the Ooviets had left. .,'he foJ.lot:=ing engineers were employed by the Czechs: (1) Graduate :pineer Rolf -'ACK ?iS (for mine ignition mechanisms) (2) Graduate "_'r_rineer Iau rl PFI$Tht (for remote control mechanisms) (3) Graduate --.ngineer ''D aL (for the "T1F.S17" `let) (4) Graduate ..ngineer "'ITT "I CIVV-`O'72RCL/ Approved For Release 2001/03/17 : CIA-RDP82-00457R003600120008-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/17 : CIA-RDP82-00457R003600120008-5 ,,.CRf~;T. C D1!TP OT, T h OWF IC L-iTLS n 'r y25X1 X CE ,,NTR.l.L INTELLIGENCE nau.EiJCY (5) graduate U.n ineer \ritaly GRO`l1L (for mine ir.nition sets) ( ) 1.7 "_ gineer i _~Ci _LII G (for remote control i.eta ) (8) t.ngineer 071OLL These engineers first - -orkod in in the Z3OD MI3AC - ' 1ant of tie Czech ' TU" Institute since later 1::45, and since 1947 in the '1tAGUL "'"-Titer" _l ant., They were 'nernitted to return to O.O nany In the second half of 1940. but the follovinr~ eri ineers ~'cnt to "r:L-. osla is to 'York in the radio industry and in ;-loryer plant s G ' tduate r ,ineer 1 ^' 7,, }. 3 ineers ';..1 t ICT' , F t01-FLIUG, in at1dition to : npineer x:1T~,,"[)'. from the , ODIL 3AC1' Al G "plant. .'he I G enr,inxeers listed cooperated in 130DI. BIICL ~--.ith the e_r",.neerq of another AG Tlant evacuated from E1::;'Z I the rtTechni.cal-Physical I orkshops" ("'PiAl"! and of a. hr-,~.neh }lent of the "Lorenz" Plant. ` T_e nay .es of these enr .n.eers are not kno-n to source. The follo"inn additional xorm~1in onrin? ers sta3yred in Czeeho- s:lova is until the fall of l43: 1 ~_. .. !~.11C h, or...erly at, (he "iI'T". for?,e.rly at the Cr= tLoi.onz'1 "lar.t. till in ~zec.zo~l ,~r~ ai ~SQ}i ',iF;7 ne3er LOCa ?3, I'or, er1 Jr at t1"; .G r' "xr ", nov in ,.RAG.T'":. ':?.3d.ua'~'e ? ;f'1.tieer ,L o 11 y ?ti r ;,''fir?' 3 13 :. ti tuto, "'hick ?aintE-ins a bra-oh plant in J CJt: 13 _C.El, as in close contnet soviet e.-encies. `ht; stu1y ; ro:zps -are su.corvised b-* the folly^*in Czech officers: aj, It . Colry 1'0lICIY"A. t:nfi;ineer Ia::Y ..~CL?_)1;Y, ,,,he served T~~ith the 1 oyal tir Force durini trio v,ar. '.l fol.io?'rinR; :;err~ ;n Inventi ns _.,ere be1nr. developed at ,ho this institute in the frill of 1c? C: Approved For Release 2001/03/17 : CIA-RDP82-00457R003600120008-5 Approved For ReIe '2010=& t1DI; C1A;RD.PS2 4 ROO3W?'g008-5 LJTELLIGE NCE A G CY _a., ';rx:.ote=- controlled bombs to be employed ag;anin t ships, Of tyre t'E 293', 14C0", produced in the T3 )DMACI "3chmicl dint ,,r 'laxaat bo::b ,ere then riser tblod by the '?C1 ;T 'T ^GT" 11 1M1 A 3_fis" 10irri, T.or t; rele

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