MUNITION DUMP IN KOBANYA, HUNGARY; UNDERGROUND RAILROAD UNDER CONSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700190019-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: June 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENPLAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NG.
COUNTRY Hungary DATE OF
SUBJECT Military - 6unition dum INFORMATION 1953
p, paratrooper t^aining
Transportaticn -Rail
How
PUBLISHED Weekly newspaper
WHERE
PUDLISHED Munich
DATE
PUBLISHED 9 Feb, 19 Mar 1954
LANGUAGE Hungarian
DA'i E DIST. 8~ Jun 1954
N0. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUPTED INFORMATION
MUNITION DUhL~ IN KOBAPtYA, HUNGARY?
UNDERGRO[PID PAILROAD UNDER COPISTRUCTION
STATE
ARMY
(Numbers in paren`heses refer to appended sources.]
Largest Dlunition Dump of AVH
The largest arms and munition dum?, of the AVH (Allamvedelmi Hatosag - State
Secu rity Authority) is located on Szlavi utca in Y.obanya, a suburb of Budapest.
The extensive cellars of the beer factories in this neighborhood were used as
storehouses during World War II and now have been enlarged and made bombproof by
the AVH. Above the cellars ther: is a one-story building, surrounded by a stone
wall, 2 meters high, which is topped by hall a meter of barbed wire.
The building is carefully guarded, and although there are no outward signs
that it belongs to the AVH, it is common knowledge thst factory and prison sen-
tries receive their supplies from here. Jozsef Nagy, AVH caotuin, is in charge
of the munition dump.
Munitions are generally issued on Thursday and Friday. AVH truck drivers
calling for supplies are forbidden to enter the building and must park their
trucks at the entrance. Supplies are brought Prom the cellars in elevators and
are issued only upor. presentation of an itemized requirement list.
Despite ell orerautions, su?plies have been found to be misting. First
Lieutenant Jozsef Szel, AVH munitions issuing officer, was accused of stealing
arms to equip a resistance group. It was impossible t~ determine whether or
not the charges were true, but Szel was removefl and has not been heard of since. (1)
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Paratrooner Being Trained
Conservative estimates of the number ;f youths between the ages of 10 and
18 who have received paratrooper tra''7ing from the Magyar Repulo Szovetseg
(Hungarian League of Aviation) since 1948 are put at 6,000. Oi this number,
more than a thousand went on to train as pilots.
A 24-year-old Hucgarian pilot who recently made a forced landing in Tugo-
alavia states that members of the air force receive three times as much food
and wages as persons serving in any other capecity.(2)
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According to reports from Vienna, Hungarian and Soviet engineer troops
began construction, in December 1953, of an underground railroad betweer Zahony
and Chop.
The tunnel will ensure connections between the two stations in event the
strategically vulnc-able railroad bridge on the regular line is destroyed.(2)
1. U,J Hungaria, 9 Feb 54
2. Ibid., 19 Mar 54
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