GAMMA AND TUNGSRAM FACTORIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300490001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL - U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT gamma and Tunggram Factories
REPORT
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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a. During 1953 the Gamma Factory is to be reorganized and individual
workshops transferred to other places, The section manufacturing
precision fuses for antiaircraft shells will probably be transferred
to the Precision, Mechanical Rlepair Enterprise (Finomechanikai Javito
V~llalat) at Szekesfeh&rvllLr o
b. No radar sets are manufactured or assembled in the Gamma factory, but
it is possible that separate parts are manufactured there. The workers
in the factory do not know whether these parts will be used in radar
sets or nit,
2. xusi~r~ram Pgatory:
Micr'otubee have been manufactured in the Tungsram Factory since 1951.
No details are known of the manufacture of radar sets in this factory.
1 a I G rLm_ exits Specialist workers were transferred from the Gamma
actory to other Budapest faotorier and other factories outside the
capital, e.g., in the Szentendre region, as long ago as 1949-1950.
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