Experimental data for Fe-24. 5Ni-0. 43D and Fe34Ni alloys (some of than previously reported) show that the martensitic transformation of the Fe-Ni-C alloy causes a sudden, temporary increase of internal friction. Heating of the martensite results in a peak (110 Hz, 223 K) observed only in the presence of carbon and in martensite just recently quenched. This peak may be explained by a hypothesis according to which it would be due to formation of Snoek carbon atmospheres around originally mobile dislocations. For a constant rate of temperature increase, the height of this peak depends on the density of mobile dislocations and the concentration of mobile carbon.