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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012300090001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 30, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
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REPORT NO.
THIS O'OCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSEI
OF THE UNITEQ STATES, WITHIN 0ilE IN A4ING OF TITLE 18, $ECTION6 T9}
AND 794, Of THE U.S. CODE. AS AMENDED. FITS TRANSMISSION OR R N#-
LATION'OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT.. BY N I UNAUTHORIZEDROHBE DS
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
FI`ihere is at present only one rad.I.o station in Budapest. The studio is located
crn S6 rLdor Street and Szentkir .lyi Street and eoneistts f~tvooore tome rg
buildings. ngs. This rad_i..o station operates- on two freq , s~ Although
ar Radio ',Budapest # 1 and, the other on PetSfi or Radio u~ gh #t2 be it
the f'xact frequencies are not definitely iM , they are the medium frequency band w-1.th a poser outpit of 150 kwr The antennas (t "e
1. n. aunt r), are located on. Csepel Island. new" Lakihegy Village,, consist Of
a one steel
the towtell rto1.4 "
two steel towers 120 to 150 meters high and.
meeLers high. T- shorter towers are ith
in, the center, but the space between the totiter's and. their orientation are
known.
not
A second. radio sttation:., on. which d i1.e . in:?o aticm is not available, is
now being Constructed northeast bf Th1 apest near 1:.ko9a2+erltmi# ply.
There are supposedly radio relay stations In -,the cities of Nyir Y b9LZa find
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5. The Budapest police employ radios with frequencies in the shortwave band.
The main transmitter station is located at 60 Stalin Avenue with the antenna
stop of the building at this address. ?'bis pot.ice short wave radio is for
the Hungarian police network only.
6. The shorty-wave radio station of the state railways is located at 73-75
Stalin Avenue, approximately 200 meters diagonally distant from the police
short=wave radio station. The antenna tower 10 atop of the main building.
One antenna is 25 to 30 meters tall and the other two are shorter with wires
connecting all three. This radio is used e7cel-asively for the railway network.
Sub-stations use local. telephone and telegraph-for messages to the district
offices,
A short-wave navigation radio is planned for the IESZHAR (Hungarian-Soviet
Danube Shipping ("o.) located on Molotov Square (Maria V'al6ria Street and
Vigadt5 Street). The equipments including the antennas, has been installed
but not yet put in operation since the river vessels do not have the necessary
receivers. Equipment is to be used for traffic on the Danube River exclusively.
The station is to be operable in the winter of 1952. A Soviet director (name
unknown) is now in charge of this project.
The 'Orion' radio factory located at Ujpest, north of Budapest, produ:ees
radio parts, tubes, home radios, dry batteries, and thermos equipment.
The home radios are in the medium frequency with aluminum cases. The
"Phillips Company" radio factory also manufactures home radios.
There are two public telephone centers in Budapest, the Krisztina and the
zsef. The Irisztina center is located on 'Krisztina Koerut Street an the
West bank of the Danube. rt is situated in a five-.story building with towers
resembling those of a castle and covering one square block. The dial system
is employed with underground cables within the city limits and overhead
telephone wires in the country. The ,r zsef center is located on the east
bank of the river on Hemet Street (name now believed, to have been changed
to Basso B6la Street). This center is situated in a four-story, red brick
building built in 1910.
10, The railway manages and operates its own telephone system. It has provisions
for direct automatic office-to-office commtmication which is called the
'American SystemY". All equipment was built by Siemens. There are, however,
15 centers at distant points where manual, rather than automatic, connections
are made to complete long distance calls.
it The Telegraph System is operated by the Post Department. Its main office
is located at the convergence of Debrecen, Hatvani and Pulsky Streets in
Budapest.
Hungary has no television transmitting facilities at this time.
not aware of the manufacture of any radar equipment. However,
in August 1951. two radar equipments at the Soviet jet airfield,
Szolttok, on the Tisza River. These radars operated with the anti-aircraft
batteries that were located on each side of the river, flanking a bridge
at this point. The radar intelligence is communicated from the radar
operators to the conmiication center at the airfield.
14 There is a weather station located. at the Ferihegy Airfield.
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