DEVELOPMENT OF RADIO CONTROL EQUIPMENT AT MVD INSTALLATION NO. 14 IN MOSCOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004400990004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 16, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. MVD Installation No. 14 on Leningrad whosae in Moscow was concerned with
the development of radio control equipment.l The institute was Pounded
after the war and was housed in s five-story building,about 125 meters long,
with a wing attached to each of its ends. The building wsa erected in
several stages between 1947 and 1951. (See sketches 1 and 2 on pages 7 sad 8).
2. The German specialists working at the institute lived in a camp near the 25X1
village of Mashkino, southwest of the intersection of the highway and the
,railroad line running from Moscow to Leningrad. In 1947, the Germane were
assigned offices on the fifth floor in the southern portion aP the building,
Later, these rooms were exclusively used by the group of experts working on
transmitters, while the other German organizations moved to roams on the
second floor, also is the southern portion of the building. The rooms
used were furnished either with writing desks for two to siX men or with
laboratory desks. Each of the rooms was fitted with a panel designed
far various voltages. Voltages available included 3x220 volt three-
phase current, alternating current of 400 c.p.s., 110 to 120 volt, and 24-
volt d.c. The considerable dropping of the voltage at specific times
indicated that the current was flu~nished by the municipal power system.
3. In the fall of 1950, five: rooms on the second floor were established as
a separate unit by the erection of a door inrthe corridor. These roams
were off-limits to all unauthorized personnel. they 25X1
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were aassigned to another erpreter
was oaten seen there and in one
of the buses of the insta a on~a erman high-frequency engineer who
had previously worked at the Siemens firm in Berlin.
4. Two single-story workshops were attached to the rear s:irle o!:' the, i.nstal].atic~n.
One o]? them was used by the Germans. The workshop was equipped wit; 40
to 50 lathes, in addition to other machinery. Wkien,i.n 1950, this
workshop was converted into a mess hall, the machinery was probably
moved to one of the workshops attached to the back of the neighboring
building at the circular place (see sketch on page ~ ). Nevertheless,
the work previously conducted in the olti. workshop was not interrgpted.
There was heavy traffic between Installation No. 14 and these workshops.
The institute had no foundry of its own. Many component parts observed
at the installation consisted of light metal. The construction of some
of.trhem indicated that production of equipment lnvolving the utilization
of die-castings had been planned. However, these plans were abandoned.
5? The Germans and Soviets at the institute worked is ch other.
A
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section of the building indicated that the Soviets ?'leo studied DF
problems. At first, the Soviet personnel took their meals in a club
located on the south aide of the highway to Tuehino. Later, a mess
hall with a rapacity for about 1,000 persona was established in the
area of tkie institute.
6. The German experts working at MVD Installation No. 14 were assigned the
mission of developing a remote-control set operating on a three-centlmetsr
wave length, The pro,~eet wee given the code deeignationl'omet
(see sketch 3 on page /0 ), with suffix figures 1, 2,and 3 indicating
slightly different development stages of the ,project. The equipment
was designed to direct a missile released, by a mother ,plane to its
target. It was planned to install a guide-beam transmitter in the
aircraft carrying the missile and then make the missile move to
a point in the vicinity of the target along the guide beam. Shortly
before the target was reached, a target-seeking radio receiver fitted
in the head of the missile was to be activated by the impulses reflected
from-the target, and then take over the directing of the missile to
its target. The Soviets expected the missile to develop a speed of
900 km per hour and to be capable of a maximum range of 120 km.
The device was obviously designed to be employed against ships.
At any rate,the problem was discussed how the missile would react if
and when it should come under the influence of two targets. The
idea o:f the whole device was, allegedly, first conceived and discussed
by Sergey Beriya (see ,personalties on pages