ACTIVITIES OF QUALITY CONTROL LTD (MERT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A000700950001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 23, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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 INFORMATION REPORT
PREPARED AND DISSEMINATED BY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the
National Defense of the United States wit in the
meaning of the Espionage Laws. Title 18. N.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794. the transmission or revelation
of which in any manner to an unauthorised per,
son Is prohibited by law.
NO. OF E' 5.
fihis report le the tr-w,&Tt t~;f e. jol_a.;L collection effort of the Air Force,
the Army and CIA, and 0R +Jisa inated in awco:rdatice with the provisions
of NSCID #7,J . )
the Quality Cozttrca F i.C i. Yk which acmes directly under 23 JUu 9r,7
prise is located at Nelkr St uI. ', in the V District of Budapest. Quality
Control Ltd is; rewponstbl,e for ialwpecting sU tt cti]es, equiment, mlachinA`H,JU 1951
chemicals, vehicles, livestoey, tca l orre they can be exported to any
breakdown of MERT - CONFIPS rJAX, '
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T at ch time frn rceut of the civilian type radio-reojilvsrs and 2C of
t telephone exchapa were rejectede Telephone exebeg a were Sported
my %o China, oral in June of 01012=9
worth of equipment was rejected 25X1
5e About 50% of the radio broadcast transmitting tuber V"duoed by the lknogsreai
at the rate of 100 to 150 sets per months
vent to mmlania, oaiania,
the LJSSR9 During 19561 *bMA 2W ' ABTO1. portable radios 25X1
were exported The AB'/Ol receiver covers the 50 meter to 150 1
meter bands and can be ueed both by the military forces and the civil polices 25X1
During the month of December 1955, 98% of the receivers slated for eocport
by "Orion" were rejected because of defective solder connections and dis-
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reception due to weak sensitivity I heard that the military depart-
ment of "Orion" maratitured 20 watt radio sending and receiving equipment
3. The "Orion" factory exported twenty minion forints worth of radio receivers
quarterly during 1955 and 1 a ova countries, The 25X1
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6. The Fine mechanical laboratories located in Kobanya (E617N-l8l8sJ factures radar equipment. for the military. I heard that they are making
lens out of artificial imaterial to be used for focusing ultra short wave
tmwwodssions on the eight to ten centimeter wave length.
7. "Vecses," a sit industrial motive located about twenty kilometers
fran Budapest (direction unknown), produces radiosonde equipment designed
for meteorological use to record. the temperature, pressure and humidity of
the earth's atmosphere at various heights.
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