ORDNANCE DEPOT IN BUDAPEST

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within i he mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 103 and 794, of the U. A. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of itwo contents
to or receipt by an unauthorised person is iaohiblted
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Ordnance Depot in Budapest
REPORT
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14 lugust 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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Location
Aung ian ordnance depot is located on Soroksari Street, 25X1
id-transit line stop.
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Budapest IX, :LImediately eas o e mun
'hi depot area is about 300 x250 me and is surrounded by a 2 me high
Atone wall; which is topped by barbed wire. Industrial railroad tracks
lead into.the area.
Weapons and Parts Being Stored
hi'the'cellar 6fthe main storage house (No. 4 in the attached sketch)
there is the so-called secret depot, which is continuously guarded by.
two sentries. It is said that new-type weapons are stored there. These
weapons are brought in and taken away at regular intervals .by troops not
t off to out-
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ioned at the depot;; the nearby surrounding area
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siders during such transports.
The following weapons are known to be stored at the depot:
1) 4,000 Soviet-type light machine guns, known as Type 48 in the
Hungarian Army, which is equipped with then; these light machine
.guns are manufactured by the Lampart Factory in Budapest.
2) About l5,000 Soviet-type rifles;
3) About 16,000 Soviet type submachine guns with drum magazines, made
in Hungary;
4) About 10#000 pieces of German and Italian small arms are stored in
a captured weapons de-not; however,.only a part of them is in good working
condition's
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5) Large stocks of spare parts for artillery guns used by the
Hungarian Army, mainly breech mechanisms and spare-gun barrels
for Soviet-type 76 mm. and 122 mm. guns. This depot also has
a work shop, where guns are overhauled; six medium guns can
be overhauled or repaired there at the same time.
In the depot yard (No. 6 in the sketch), almost 1,000 guns of
various calibers are stored closely together under tarpaulins.
The estimated breakdown of these is as follows:
6) 120 Soviet long-barrel guns, 152 mm.
75 70 Soviet long-barrel guns, 122 mm.
8) 150 Soviet howitzers, 122 mm.
9) 140 Soviet howitzers, 105 mm.
10) 50 Hungarian Bofor biaircraft:guns, 88 mm.
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180 Soviet antitank guns, 76 mm. made in Dibsgynr
12) 200 German recoil-absorber antitank guns, 76 mm.
131 'In addition, three Soviet 131 mm. automatic guns were seen in the
depot yard. These guns, hitherto unknown to the Hungarian Army
were to-be used to train teams of Hungarian soldiers in their opera-
teon. ',Only when sufficient number, of artille ry teams : tad been
trained in the operation of guns of this type were sn h, guns to
be issued to the Hungarian Army as part of its regular equipment.
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in''one of the storage houses on the south side of the depot area there is an
oil depot, where about 80 carloads of machine oil, high-grade oil, diesel oil,
and various types of fuel and alcohol are stored.
Source of Material
Until recently, the entire supply of the weapons depot came from the Soviet
Union;. however, there has been much talk that in the near future most of
the Soviet-type arms destined for the Hungarian Army are to be made in
Hungary.
5a Personnel
a. All in all, about 100 soldiers and 350 civilians are working at the
depot. The civilians live outside the grounds, but the soldiers are
quartered in the upper floors of the depot buildings. N66-. 2, 3, and 4
in,-the sketch).`
b. Commanding Officer of the depot is Major VA G (fnu),
Captain PRISZTAS
the political officer
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ight to ten officers work in
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c. The majority of the troops present belong to the depot guard company,
Rhich consists.af about'250 men. Commanding Officer of the guard
company is Rezso rATONA; political officer of this company is Lieutenant
7TISLR (fnu) 25X1
6. frainin
Training courses are held continuously in the depot. Each of these courses
is attended by about 50 men, of whom half are noncommissioned officers and
half are enlisted men from various units. The courses are run by Mayor
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C) S fnu . Both of these men are
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Annex: Sketch of the'Soroksari Street Ordnance Depot in Budapest
(with a legend).
Legend to the sketch of the Ordnance depot in Budapest:
1, one-story storage houses with loading ramps along the tracks
2. Two-story buildings, storage houses and billets
3. Two-story buildings, storage houses, offices and billets
b. Main storage house, administration and billets; basement depot
5. Sentry house, oneistory
6. Depot yard
7, lunicipal rapid-transit line stop.
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