PLANNING INSTITUTES AND INVESTMENT ENTERPRISES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001500510008-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Planning Institutes and Investment
Enterprises
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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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1, Almost every branch of industry in Hungary had its own planning institute
or planning office depending on the size of the indtiu,stx y, Such planning
institutes and planning offices were charged with the elaboration of the technical
production plans for particUe industries. One of the largest planning institutes
was the Machine Industry Planning Institute (Gepipari Tervezoe Intezet)u which
had a number of branch offices.
2. The number of employees in a planning tustitite in: some cases was as high
as 600 persons, while the employees in a Planning Office did not exceed 100.
The staff employed in Planning institutes and planning Offices consisted of
engineers, technicians, technical draftsmen, and auxiliary administrative personnel.
3. The technical personnel belonged to the old v prewar generation 9 and very few of
them belonged to the Hungarian Workers' Party. Some were former Party members
who had been excluded from the Party because of their social origin, but kept
on in their jobs for their tee nical knowledge. Because of this, these offices
were poor territory for Communist propaganda, and leading Parity members used to
refer to the personnel in Plan inng Institutes and Plan ring Offices as tPreactionary
society". Of all P-a-;, ernmerAt offices, the percentage of Party members in these
offices wars the lowest. Usually only the chiefs of offices and employees in the
personnel and ad iini,strati ve offices drawn from the workers u cadre were. party
members hardly five per cent of the entire staff, The Party was well aware of
the political atmosphere in the planning institutes and Offices, but it was unable
to do anything about it because of the shortage of :indoctrinated technical
personnel.,
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4. It was generally known in Hungary that there was a serious shortage of
technical personnel. The Five Year Plan provided for training, of 5,000
engineers by the end of the plan in 1954. But by 1952 very little
progress had been made. In my estimation the number of trained
technical personnel will not exceed 2,500 by 1954, or half of the
projected number.
5. In order to combat this shortage in indoctrinated technical personnel
and to assure production, the Party went so'far as to recruit civilian
and'army engineers from the labor camps, even those who had been
condemned by law tows much as 10 years of forced. labor. The
authorities told them openly that they needed, them'