SUPERSONIC RESEARCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100910006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Iia-
tionai Defense of the United states, within the mean-
in` of Title 18, dectionr 70 and 744, of the U.N. Oode, as
amended. Ito transmission or revelatloa of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorised person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form 10 prohibited.
/SEC 0LfoR 'U.S. OE FICIALS OELT
COUNTRY Hungary/USe
SUBJECT Supersonic Research
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 19 August 1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RP
2EFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. On 4. April 1953, five Hungarian experts of the United Incandescent factory (Zgresialt
Izzo) attended a conference at the Ministry of Defense. Topic of discussion was the
installation of control equipment on the Danube which was based on the supersonic
principle. 25X1
Soviet experts at an experimental station in
Leningrad, USSR., on the perfection of a sonar device -for -the detection of sub..
merged mines and submarines. The supersonic apparatus is working on the magneto-
striction or the piezo*electronic principles.
laboratory jointly managed
by United Incandescent and Standard. Of the 37 sc entists working in this lab-
oratory 17 were Russians and the rest Hungarians. 25X1
SUM/Co oL - U.S. OFFICIALS O19LT
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