STATE CONTROL CENTER (AEK)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100490010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 21, 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 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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SECURITY INFORMATION
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SOURCE..
Hungary ,~.
State Control Center (ABK)
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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1. The State Control-Center (A.lami LllenOrztf Kdzpont or AEK) had its head offices
and school at N&dor Street 28, Budapest. Applicants were given a one year
CPA course and then they received employment with the State Control Center,
which is supervising the bookkeeping of the industrial plants and agrarian
cooperatives. There were 53 graduates in the last class. There was no age
limit; the; :aged of i,stLteniv varied between 28 and 12. Also no previous studies
were required; thus it happened that #mong ihe-19S2 graduates there wasnit
a single one who was a high school graduate. The students were Government
employees whose salaries were paid by the State according to the wages earned
prior to the attendance of the school. Thus the wages varied from 700 forints
to 1,400 forinte monthly. After the students were graduated the CPA starting
salaries remained the same as they had been during the course. It was promised.,
however, that the salaries were to Y.4lfihcreased according to the-years in
service.
2. F'rom.the salaries paid by the school.the following sums were deducted.
a. 2 percent tuition.
b. 120 forints per month for the "Peace Loan"
a. 18 forints per month for trade-union membership fee
d. 160 forints per month for lunch and tea-at the school
e. 9 forints per month for the subscription to the newspaper Szabad
f... 3 forints per month for the periodical Social Review (T&rsadalmm& 3Z e)
g. 20 to 30 forints for miscellaneous deductions, co ectiona or Korea..
movies, theatre, etc.
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4.
'Thy main subjects of the CPA course were:
Political Economy: mostly. Lenin's economic doctrines and analysis of Marx's
'The Capital .
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b. $tatistics-
c. Bookkeeping
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d. Political analysis of newpapers; the students received the Szabad Nep,
each morning and the first subject was reading the paper. Ev ry student
had to study the paper thoroughly for one hour., and upon request had to
give an account of it's contents, telling what he found interesting or
noteworthy in the paper. This subject was given great importance, yet.,
most of the students scanned the paper., and memorized the headlines only,
in order to have an idea what the daily news was. When called to report,., the
sterotype and much repeated anti-Western slogans, and praise of the Soviet
Union, were the answerso. Mondays (when there were no newspapers) "press-
comments" had to be delivered by one of the students. If this student was
a Communist or an opportunists lots of harm could come to the non-Communists
by ignoring the official point of view. But if the moderator was a non-
Communist, the hour passed mostly with joking, and superficial debates.
5. Bookkeepers., accountants, and other specialists on the teaching staff, were
selected according to their political reliability. The students had to join
the Warty of the Hungarian Workers (the Communist Party) and the DISZ
(paramilitary) organization at the time of registration.
25X1A i. comment: For a sample of the activities of the State Control
Center commonly known as the "economic AVH"t) see
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