ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRO-TECHNICAL INDUSTRIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000680003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
DATE OF INFO.
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1 t~>-- ~Iu.F.LuyCL, uy -Me Danz 'irm in Budapest. 25X1
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rtiv ~.cvw puX and. is less
skilled than was tke eiec' ? eal worker prior to th
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vent of the present
Regime. In regard to the Ganz electrical equipmentplant the engineer explained,
that production was low and that products were of a poor quality. Most of the 25X1
factory's products were made from former German designs.
at the Olympic games in Helsinki., 0 a Hungarian electrical engineer named
Ambrus BALOGH. BALOGH had been employed by an electric bulb factory in
Budapest and was, during the Summer of 1952.,, employed in an armament plant
also located. in Budapest,
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STATE ;g ARMY NAVY AtRw FBI~~ AEC
Hungary/Rumtania
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This Document contains information affecting the Na
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Tts transmission or revelation of its contents
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Electrical and Electrg4Techn:i.cal
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the rifles used by the: Hungarian Olympic team - 25X1
were manufactured at this armament P3 ant However the Barr i s had
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subsequent orders h. Den
placed refused to `deliver to Hungary . . . 25X1
dthe large quantities (1 oo,00..0) of ,22 long rifle
cartridges delivered by Hungary to R mmania-In 1950 were - manufac -
- tured at the ,plant in which Mr. BALOGH worked. These cartridges
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were
o be.used J . Ri ah,.a in the drive. of all . industrial athletic
teams to. develop "all--round sportsmen". Sharpshooting was one of
the prerequisite teats to which the individual was subjected.
With regard to the electro- and power industries of
Hungary, while wafting at the ins to 25X1
of Energy cis and Studies in Bucharest F_ u
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n
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gar was not ids,, yet preparea rn s -- a eC ri--
cal apparatus and that Rumara a was still at that time d
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di
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ng as
electrical products from the-Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia and from
th.e,USSR. In the Spring of 1952, while visitinw,tho " n
electrical e m a 25X1
Hungry Was nmx slivering light
e ec ca apparatus such as circuit breakers; auxiliar apparatus 25X1
-or ions and transformers. In-August 1951, 25X1
a 150-KVA Ganz- of act red. transformer be repaired.
at the .. Dinamo plant. Hungary is ahead of Rumania 25X1
in the quality and quantity o electrical
products.
no gas turbine industry in Hungary. 25X1
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