MATYAS RAKOSI UNIVERSITY FOR HEAVY INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500800025-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: February 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Mityas HKkosi University for Hclvy Industry
Hungary
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engineering,. According to plane :?ach f:aculty will have~6-ors v~ airsaby the the whole 7 chairs by ttime
p7'0jeCt is CdlA. t('d. At preryont the follnwine rhnl,+a h_..n w~~. .. s
I~ BY 1953 twelve chairs were set up at 11skolc, and by the and of the last term
1322 students were enrolled in lY chir?a. Tho univer.?ity will consist of three
p e project of e University fcr Heavy Chemical Industries at Veszpr4m.
major part will ?"~ "`?y Yui'},vues. '. ne
go to the Univer:ity ror Heavy Industries project, the other to a
contem tat d
ace this time the government, with ?a:)accwt:: knowlecge, has set up a program
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ores in X950 to :l secae~trat.ec building ?.,,hich formerly had
boon P. high school run by pricet:.
and this summer L195 the first 236 engineers were graudated from here.
Construction in still going on witn great speed .bcut .5.j km from M1:keic on the
road leading to B'+th ' Oo"lc . The tln'.v"-.,-Ly he its own new trolley-bu` line
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DATE DISTR. Z.S Feb 1954
NO. OF PAGES 3
NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPP. TO
REPORT NO. 25X1
1. The present large-stale development of the Hungarian heavy industries
automatically demands the increase of a trained technical elite. The existing
Hungarian universities would not be able to train a sufficient number of young
technical. engineers. Therefore the government decided. naturally with Soviet
approval, to incret+se the number of universities for pr,acttcol sciences 97:5 to
build near T4iekolc, In the vicinity of the most important sand largest Hungarian
heavynnd military combinnn, the"`MHty3; University for Heavy Industries,
2. Goustruotion work, and at th- -,qp t.tmt temror,ir.'T instruction, sttirtrc? here in
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