PHARMACEUTICALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600020192-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 192
• Publication Date: July 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Hungary
CLASSIHCATION nLCILET/EGLRITY INF 1:17i.H,TTOV
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Pharmaceuticais
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i. The pharmace?tical industry in flunary is under the direction of
the Ninistry of ilealth; tis was also true of pharmacies and
hospitals. rfie distribution and inspection of drugs was under
the control of the OKI (Orszagos Koezegeszseguegyi Intezet ?
State Public Health Institute). Inspection of pharmaceuticals
was handled in the following manner: the representative of the
OKI took one packa7e of a particular series of a drug with him
from the .o.armacy; he sealed another package which he left with
the pharmacist; the rest was sold to the public. The product
was then ex:,mtned; -.Li it was not up to 71tandard, the responsible
-,)arty inspection was considered inefficient and
subject to dangerous errors; several deaths were reported to have
been caused by improper-)ackaging or labelling of drugs. In such
cases, the linistry of Health would issue an order to stop the
sale or the particular series of medicine until te packages had
been checked, and t' 'e medicine was not available until the
checking had been completed. iTarmaccutical products were
distributed to hospitals and pharmacies through a central
institution, the Gyogyszerkereskedelmi Vallalat, located in
Kiraly utca in Liu.lapest. Pharmacies and hospitals submitted their
requirements to the ceAral office ah .ch then distributed the
required pharmaceuticals.
2. Pharmaceutical preparations were generally available to the
public on thr, presentation of a prescription. The quality of
druffs was generally satisfactory with a few exceptions; per.icillin
produced in ::ungary was ineffective as Jompared to the. US proluct.
Streptomycin was not pro.mced in Hungary; it :ras imported from the
US by private letter re,uests: Aminothiasol was quite a common
drug in Hungary. Ultraseptyl is a sulfa drug made in Hungary.
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I do not know of a germicide agent called movidin; there was 1.
germicide, derived from a silver ni-;rate tolution, not colloidal.
It was sold in tubes of '0 pastile and could be obtained only on
prescription. There were no medicines imported frosts. the USSR, but
some medicines were imported from Switzerland. Papaverine was
produced by Chinoin, the largest pharmaceutical plant in Hungry;
its production was reputedly one-fifth of the world's output.
Most of the papaverine produced was exported, and some, I believe,
was sent to the Soviet,Uniom I have no .information on laboratories
producing vscoines,and serum, nor do I know whiph Plants pros-
duced alkaloida* Aithodgh thihk thOre'lla aUfficitnt'altOhol
prodnced in Aungarip there is a Shortage because alcohol must be
exported to the USSR "like everything else," but I at not $UPS Ot
this. Castor beans are grown in HUngary for Use in pharmacautioale,
dyes, and paints, but i do not know whether they are deed tor
cattle feeds
3. The following are RUngarian phattaceUtical Matufactdrerat
(a)
Chinoin id the largett phatmeoeutioal plant in Hungary; it
is located in To dtca.in Ujeet .before_nationalication,
it was the property of Wolff (fnd), -Dr Zoltan Voeldi. One
of the best organic Chetlett in HUngaty, iS the director
of one of the reatatch labotatOries; Abmit 50 yeare old)
he received the Koatuth prite itIr. He Wat ih
charge of penibillin.ptoduction, hindin Wag the oply
Hungarian ptodUeet of this but it Was not auffieicntly
effective and there Was talk of ditcontituing it production.
Chinoin was the Math Hungatien producer of antid,bidtiOS
Other produota manufactured:by Chinoin
?paraziWihrobehtOic acid aultamide derivatives
ulttaaeptY1
aspirin ?
novoeaine
PapaVetine
pyramydondeaetilMine antipirin
benzoie acid
atropine
para-mnifibediflitided
vitamin C
(b) Richter, in ftibeihya, budapeat, ranked at one of the top
three in pharMatentical production in mingary. Among other
things, it produced aspirin, dUltatide preparation, &ha
Vitamin C4
(c) Wander, located at Hakospaiota neer u3pett3 the .third of
the three, produced horMOtes, ?synthetic isitterial hitting
the effect of oestrone, and sulftMide preparations,
(d) I know that there Were sete-dMialer libdeatot,ieit iiihiah pro-
duced metacylAmethYltiourtftl *blob is uatid agAitist
hyperthyroididit, but I have no further Information about thea4
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4. Companies in Hungary in allied fields included:
(a) Magyar Oorgyszeraru in Budat-est made bandages and other
medical requisites.
(b) Orvosi Mueezer Oyer in Budapest produced 'bandage, cotton,
and other non-pharmaceutical supplies.
(0)
Der Laboratories examined medical solutions and pre-
parations, a to info I received sometime
in 1950 from
? 5. I have no knowledge of pharmaceutical products kept in reserve
for emergencies: I do know that first aid kits, containing
bandages, cotton, splints, iodine ampules- and ammonia, were
distributed in 1950 to every house, institute and factory.
6. I have never heard of the use of ultrasonics in the production
oi anti-virus vaccines in Hungary or the USSR. I know that
Dr Tames Ternoczy did independent research in ultrasonics at
the Central Physics Research Institute at the Eoetvoes Lorand
University in Budapest.
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