HUNGARIAN WORKERS IN THE USSR AND CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007300290001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
COUNTRY Hungary/USSR/China
SUBJECT Hungarian Workers in the
USSR and China
DATE OF INFO.
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1 July 1955
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SnuRCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. Information
1. Since September 1954, at regular fortnightly intervals, 15 to 25 Hungarian
civilians leave the Debrecen airfield for the USSR and China.
2. Between July 1954 and the beginning of February 1955, 850 skilled workers 25X1
and 120 engineers have left Hungary. The engiheers'.were mostly recent
graduates; .55% of them finished their university training in 1953 and 1954.
3. Hungarian groups are flown to Alma Ata and taken from there to their aesti?
nation&0 including Peiping to work on the Peiping-Ulan Bator railroad. The 25X1
Peiping-Alma Ata railroad will be about 29500 km. long and the Peiping-Ulan
Bator railroad about 1,000 km. long. Both railroads figure in the Chinese
Ten Year Plan.
4. The Chinese Government,through its representative in Budapest and in 25X1
collaboration with the Hungarian State Railroads,,is conducting.a propaganda
campaign to recruit more workers. The contracts are for periods from two to
four years. After two years a three-week paid vacation is promised with free
passage home. Families in Hungary will receive the full salary of their
husbands and parents 75% of the salary of their sons.
5. he various national groups,, such 25X1
as the Poles, Rumanians,, etc., do not seem to get along. Complaints about
the food have led to the establishment of national kitchens. There are also
complaints concerning the lack of'contact with the local population.
6. Hungarian workers in the USSR and, China rarely hold individual passports. They
usually travel with a collective document which isrrsaf.eguarded by the_Party
Secretary. The latter is also responsible for the leisure-time occupation of
the workers
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