HUNGARIAN EXPORT OF HYDROGENERATORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300900009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2007
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Hungary/USSR
REPORT
SUBJECT Hungarian Export of Hydrogenerators DATE DISTR. 19 November 1954
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
Ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, V.S.C. Seca. 793
and 794. the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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REFERENCES
1. The USSR has placed an order for seven hydrogenerators at the Ganz
Electrical Equipment Factory in Budapest. The hydrogenerators are
for the power generating plants built in connection with the new
Volga dams.
2. The first model was delivered in April 1954. It was disassembled,
loaded on Soviet barges, and transported via the Danube.
3. Around the middle of May 1954, the Ganz factory sent a group of
eight engineers and 100 mechanics to the USSR to reassemble the
generators.
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