CIVILIAN DEFENSE, BW, CW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600020191-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 191
• Publication Date: July 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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IIVFC~RNIA'T"IOIV REPORT
SUBJECT Civilian ilef~.nse, ;'.:., C'.!
COUNTRY FIunary
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DATE DISTR. ~~ Jul ~2
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1, Since t',?e swmner c.' 191, civilian dei'ense l:as received rene:?red
emphasis in iiw~~ary. :fed Cross courses in first a~ (.?rhat to do
in case of ar. e:;cr~c:ncy) had become .,cite ~ener.al. Une ~?r.anan
out of every household was design.:t,ed a first-aid leader and
she had to attend the Iced Cross courses Since aeptember ly5i,
all students in i;he have Veen
re:;uired to take non?~credit courses t,ro '..our: treelcly! ~,rhich
cover pro ,ection against air attack, .L'ire, and rc~:atard ;;asp
Such a gas attack is .Cully e pected :i.n case a~ :car,. I~ ire
brig*ades for each ~?i strict :were orgar:ized c:nd all rr.er, weY 0
years of a e l ad to report for fire fi ~htin~ once a :reek begin-~
nin in the s~.umr~er c f 1 Sl a
very spar mer: u c in^ r.a~ a
tenant who tras Iesinrr~aed 'ItiustPel' and had chrar;;e of i'ire
extinguishers, evacuation, etc? TTorld ricer II bomb si:elters l:ad
since been used for storage, but in the sunvner of l~l, tY:e
government ordered these shelters cle;zred out and all a7ar~n
si nals repaired anti readL.ed i'or operation Tl:ere l:a~i 'oeen~
ne general public a]_ert or drill:
Although there ,ras grave concr-_rn about an atomic bomb attack;,
no defenses sere sugPested arrainst it. Rater the feeling
prevailed t,' aI, one :could be better o.'# to be killed i' an
A-bomb fe11. The iiun~;arians :rere not sure :rl:ethcr t: c lJS mould
resort to atomic warfare.
2~ As is the case with all mass activities in llun~ary, tt;e CY
' controls t;he Red Cross. Beginning in the su~mncr o.' 1,-51, that
organization ?ave first-aid courses of six :rcelcs durai;ion.
Those t~rho attended th.e courses sere taulrt :ri;at to do in case of
emergency, ie, lro:r to :~.?m.nister firs+ aid in case of pit
attack, Lire., or r~ur,?tard gas. They were told tY:at ai tc--ragas
attack:
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(a) gas iaa.aka mua ~ be used,
(b) rooms should pe fully venti_iated,
(c) a~rgen should be administered to those xho had breathed the gas,
(d) medical aid should be sought promptly.
The treatment suggested f'or mustard gas wsa as follows: absorb
liquid with blottlag paper, wash with benzol or petroleum, and
finally cover area Kith loose dry gauze. After such attacks, the
water suet be boiled. In case of cyanide contamination, boiling
la not sufficient.
3. In June 1951, the Red Cross intensified the campaign for blood
donafilona which was begun 1n 1945. There was no mention of this
campaign on the radio or in the presaf rather the campaign was
carried on by means of posters but the purpose Par which the blood
was collected was not included. The response to the campaign was
gener.~~ally good. I know nothing of blood banks or where they are
located. I do know that the hospitals were in charge of collecting
and preserving blood. It was collected in quantities of 300 cc and
kept in small glees containers, sterilized, and hermetically sealed.
Blood otas stored at sub-zero temperature (Centigrade). I know nothing
of a Central Blood Supply and Research Institute, a National Blood
Supply Service, nor a State Hygiene Institute. The use of blood
tran.~fuaiona xas quite widespread in Hungary. EmploBed persona got
free 'blood transfusions but those xho were not employed by the
government, such as older. people, had to pay for t2:e transfusions
or f'].nd a person echo would give an equivalent amount of blood.
One blood transfusion of 250 cc cost 50 forints. I don't think
there was any dry plasma .'.:~. Hungary, nor have I heard of plasma
substitutes, eatendera, or QAer~tran".
~. The ordinary Hungarian, in my opinion, lu'iows practically nothing
oP bacterlologleal or chemical warfare. Nexapapers have said that
the Japanese used biological warfare In ilorld War II. It is common
knowledge that there are special units for chemical xarftu?e 1n the
Hungarian Army and that chemists are put into this type of work >Qhen
they are drafted, buff of abet their work consists is not generally
1alown.~ The following is the procedure for chemists xho enter the
;: xmy. All cbeml.ets, even professors, enter the army as privates
unless they are already oPPicers. If it is felt that they are
promising, tt-ey are selected for officers' school where they take
at leant a three months course. IIpon graduation they beeo~ue
lieutenat-ts.. An alternate procedure is that a man may apply for
entrance ,into a Collegiwu (officer's school); this selection la made
by the Military District. Those accepted for this course attend tY~e
university classes in chemistry ur engineering. When they are
commissioned these affi~cera must serve t2u?ee years 1n the Army.
There is a training school for officers at Szentendre near Budapest,
and one of the students nt the Eoetvoes Lorand IIniveraity, Ferenc
Nagy, went fibers in 1951 Prom Apri]. to September. With reference
to the military chemical traini articu'larl
those apecializing in chemistry
aJll the 1nPormation I have xas gleaned simply from overhear ng
students' canveraetti,ons among themselves; they were presuanably
forbidden to talk about it. All training xas in restricted az?eas,
so that I never sax it. These students were i$au~ed FIu*~garian gas
masks, but .L never saw anyone around the ~u-iveraity carrying one.
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I think that the tolloxing sub~eeta xe~re included "in ~irfieii~"training:
nuetsrd gas, phosgene, carbon monoaide,.x4ydro en cyanide;"~i:hloropicrin,
cyanogen broxide, possibly cyanogen chloride ~alttiovgh I am not aura.).
Theory was taken up during the school gear, but practical exerci.aee
in chsalaal xartare wets given in sus~er caps; studeiita took"th@ir
one-~ontlh aueowr training at Yezpren northwest of ~Balatoa"Lake as xell.
as other places, the nssea of Mnich I do not lmox. I have no dlefinite
knoMledge of the xl.litary curriculum.
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