HEAVY METAL INDUSTRY DIVISION OF THE FOUNDRIES AND MACHINE INDUSTRIES MINISTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000600390010-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
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COUNTRY Hungary
REPORT NO. 25
SUBJECT Heavy Metal Industry Division of the DATE DISTR.
Foundries and Machine Industries Ministry
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
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The Heavy Metal Industry Division (Nehezfemipari Foeosztaly) of the Foundries and
Machine Industries Ministry controlled the production of war materials in Hungary
until February 1952, when it was separated from the Ministry and expanded to form
the Medium Machine Industry Ministry (Koezepgepipari Ministerium). The formation
of the new Ministry was necessary because of the increase in production of wax
2. The Heavy Metal Industry Division was organized in the summer of 1948 and was located
at Szabadsag ter 5/6p`:^.:Bi d.apest, on the third floor of the building which in 1950
became the main building of the Foundries and Matine Industries Ministry.
3. Operations of this division were secret and its name was a cover name. Most of the
technical personnel were military,'e.g., army engineers, technicians, and arms expertsi
The division was often visited by high-ranking officers.
4+. Security measures were strict. Only persons with special passes were allowed to
visit this division. Officials of the Foundries and Machine Industries Ministry
working in the same building bad to have special passes to visit the third floor.
Visitors were escorted and the time of their visit and its duration were registered.
The entrance to the third floor was blocked with iron bars and an iron door. All
the windows of the third floor'had iron bars. The employees themselves were pledged
to secrecy; one did not know what the other was doing.
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In 1951 there was a purge in this division after an investigation
by the security officers and out of about 100 employees, all
Party members, 250 were separated. Many separated employees
were arrested.
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Mentioned that production of certain parts for tanks and
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this division,visintained hi lev
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standardized on the Soviet pattern.
7? The firstchief of. dais; . iviaion from 19k8 to 1951 was (fnu) VELi ,
who was transferred to the post of director of the MAVAG
Loooaotive and Machine ,Factory, (MAVAG Mozdony an Gepgyar) Budapest,
in 1951'y after', the purge in the Division. His place was taken by
Gyoergy MOSYARI,. a fanatical Communist, who was transferred to
the Medium Machine Industry Ministry , 'when .it .:was created as Chief,
of a Division.
The.. Heavy Metal Industry Division was, in constant touch with the
Soviet Secretariat, a group of. Soviet technical experts. attached to
.the Foundries aid ,[!Lachine Industries Ministry to supervise -pro
duotion especially: in', metallurgy, and to oat in an advisory
capacity to the Ministry. The, overt function of the Secretariat
was ' oontrol .of reparations deliveries. Chief of the Soviet
Secretariat Was an army engineer' named (Thu) ~ ZAXHPAYBV) . It is
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9. With . the.' separations of the heavy metal Industry Division from the
Foundries and Mach;Lne Industries Ministry, many of the departments
and personnel from other Divisions in ' the 'Ministry were trans
ferred and the,Fowadries and Machine Industries Ministry therefore
had, to undergo further reorganization.
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