RADIUM AND RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030013-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECf{ET~
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY -
INFORMATION REPORT
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DATE DI T 1952
NO. VF YAUtb G
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
SOURCE (Llr,.. Kiara Etelka Berecki, Hungarian, 27,
r:S,, 'Which sent him radium preparations for use in
rat- -y inotza~',1ou. In the summer of 1949 .or 1950, U13C0
nisi. gave *.te University radioactive preparations. In 1950
the. PhyFi^al ,.hemistry Institute prepared a neutrons roe for
thr ^_er;ra1 Physi_- Researcl Institute. Only one tube, three
long ear one inch in diameter, was produce-? The glans
ttiie ounta?ning the neutron source was encased in a paraffin
tube. 6x6.v6 an.
2. Tt =.re " se s lC ir. 9;1 that radioactive elements had been
dis(:crered in Hu.:gary. No one seemed to know the location;
such a discovery would. naturally be considered a military
3~!c:et. In this contecticn, a broadcast on Radio
B?aaapest in March 1952 may be significant. The broadcast
stste,i that the Kossa-th prize had been awardta co two geolo-
gists: Der Elemer Vadasz, Director of the Geology and Hiner-
alogy institute of the Eoetvoes Lorand University; and
Dr Elemer Szadeczky--Kardosa, professor of mineralogy. The
prizes amounted to 20 thousand forints each. It is also
interesting that a 10 thousand forint prize was awarded to
Dr Sandor Szalay, Director of the Physical Chemistry Insti-
tute of the University of Debrecen; he vaa doing
research in radioactivity.
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3. The atolie bomb was not discussed in detail around the University.
In 1945 or 1946, the British Consulate invited students of tb
'-'=-'vertity to 1-end the showing of an BWish files, on the atoafie
bash. In 1951.the newspapers reported that Danilov, a Russian
engineer had used an atonic explosion to char,,;e As course of a
river for irrigation purposes. The Hungarian.?i yarned via the
grapevine that the explosion was 1.,,emature,and an aceidbnt.
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Potential installations in Hungary. The Eoetvoea rrS
University did have several cloud chambers, some 50 an in dianster.
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