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With no further discussion, we sat down on the boxes, took off our garrison
caps, and lit up a cigarette.
The electric instrument laboratory was fantastic! There were so many
unique (for us) instruments of all types and ranges from the world-renowned
German firms Siemens, Siemens und Halske, Rohde & Schwarz, and
the Dutch firms Philips, Hartmann-Braun, and Lorentz! And again—
photographic enlargers, slide projectors, movie projectors, chemicals, bulky
stationary cameras, cine-theodolites, phototheodolites, and optics of incomprehensible
purpose…
We christened a separate building the electrophysics building because of
its contents. Electronic low- and high-frequency frequency meters, wave
meters, precision noise meters, octave filters, harmonic analyzers, nonlinear
distortion factor meters, motor generators and dynamotors for various voltages,
even the scarce cathode ray (now called electronic) oscillographs.The
richest building of all was the one containing radio and acoustical measurement
equipment.
We are writing the addresses of our firms on the boxes:“P.O. Box” so-andso.
9 But what will really happen to this stuff? Who will meet the airplanes
in Moscow?”
After much time had passed, I indeed never found a single report from that
mass of secret and top-secret reports that I had sent from Adlershof. They were
dispersed over LII, TsAGI, NISO, and other aircraft industry institutions. Only
about one-tenth of the instruments that we had sent ended up at NII-1, provoking
a justifiable reaction from my immediate chief. At NII-1 in Likhobory, they
began preparing the next, independent expedition to Germany. This time, on
their own airplane.
9. In the Soviet era, enterprises engaged in sensitive activities were frequently identified simply by post office
box numbers.
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