(SANITIZED)HUNGARIAN STATE EOTVOS LORAND GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE, BUDAPEST(SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2010
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• Publication Date: March 28, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY Hungary
State E8tv8s Lorand Geophysical
Institute, Budapest
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28 March 1957
a report on the Hungarian State
tvas Lorand Geophysical Institute in Budapest. It contains
information on the departmental organization, on the names of the
department chiefs on tb,e Institute's work on seismometers, seismographs
and mn.gnetophones
Communist 8hina,and on the export of equipment to Czechoslovakia and
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Geop1 ys3.aa1 Institute, DuLaruu
SET
1. The Geophysical In ( 3!91OS LOHAND (ZOFIZIKAI INTEZET)
is situated at BUDOEST, Voroshilov Ut. 99. The head of the Institute
was D0M I Tibor
Until 1954 the Institute was subordinated
to the Ministry of Nines, but was then transferred to the control of the
Directorate of Geophysical Research,
2,
The Institute was divided into six departments:-
(a) , Seismic Department. Head - G
ALFFY Ja
nos.
(b) General Dep
artment, Head - S
TEGENJ L
aJos,
(e) Magnetic De
partment. Head -
FACSINAI
(fnu)
(d) Electricity
Department. Head
TYEN Karoly.
(e) Registratio
n of Eaut Tremors
':
- BaRTA Gyorgy.
(f) Gravitation
Department. He
H.t2 Istvan.
3. There were no Russian advisers attached to the Institute.
4, The General Department (see para. 2(b) above) was divided
into throe sub-dopartmonts:-
(a) Geochemistry. Head BERGH Arpad.
(b) Geothermic. Head HORV;;TH Gyula.
(c) Physics Laboratory. ',Head - KOCH Gyorgy,
5, The principal task of `tho 'gootherrv.c Department '(see para.4 (b)
above) was the construction ant maintenance of seismometers ~lnd seiscio?-
graphs which were used principally in oil prospecting.
and seismographs were based entirely on current
models.
The svisriometers
6. In addition a considerable amount of research was carried out
Jointly by the Seismic and the General Departments on the :development of a
/riagnetoph-ono +...*.
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ma.gnetophono in connection vrith its use for the prospecting for oil,
coal and minerals. This particular research was completed by October
1956 but the general use of the magnetophono in the field for prospecting
was prevented by the outbreak of the Revolution in October 1956#
one magnotophone cost about 2,~000,,000 florints to construct
unspecified Hungarian firm was engaged on manufacturing them
for export to CZECHOMLVrKL'. and CHIN.,. On8 magnetophone was used by
the Institute.
7. The method of using the magnetophone for prospecting was as
The riagnotophone which was carried in a van, was connected
to ton soismoncters by cables,
ii charge was then detonated at an
unspecified distance from the seismometers and the latter registered
the shock waves and transmitted thorn to the rlagnetophono which
recorded them on a 10 cm, wide paper tape. violent oscillation
in the waves would indicate the presence of an abnormal stratur_i
i:oe oil or coal, etc. The team operating the magnetophone was,
hawever, able to calculate from the readings produced on the tape,
the location on the ground whore test drilling should be raado to
ascertain the exact nature of the deposit.
8. No prospecting for uranium eras carried out by the Geophysical
Institute.
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