(SANITIZED)GANZ ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT FACTORY, BUDAPEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A041300180001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 25, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
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COUNTRY Hungary
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
Ganz Electrical Equipment
Factory, Budapest
report which gives some
general information on Communist personalities., country of manufacture
of machinery, number of employees, working hours and pay rates at the
Ganz Electrical Equipment Factory (Ganz Kapesolok es Keszdlekek Gyara),
K&banyai ut "i4lc, Budapest, The report also gives so information events in the October/November 1956 Hungarian revolt 7
All the information predates the ungar an
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In 1950 the firm teas .nationalized and the ?,hole group of Directors i.rere
dismissed . everything was impounded and the whole factory inventory, inclur?ing
the large machines, was loaded on large trucks an:1. t,-ken to the Ganz Kctpc,so1oK
Ss Keszu?.ek ?,, large factory i?ihere the, other nationalized bakelite factories
were also nut. This is located at, I.ob Arai ut /4l c, niurlrpest X. Director
of this factory is Gyula Gulvas
Connected to the factory as the official kVH man was a certain Sanclor Fischer,
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the manufacture of tools and electrical a-onaratus. In this manufacture, all
articles riot a stamp which showed that the article in nuestion was made in r 25X1
i i ,. o n' t.- a lot m was d n ~ 17 ~ u
It also hapnened that tools were copied.
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Bureau decided this. They worked v with mes.
it said, were made in Russia
people were working e
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nersonnel were made up half or women who chiefly worked. on the automatic
machine;. Many articles which were exported were returned after a course of
time becauoe they were good for nothing. This sometimes amounted to 90;".
Because production had to be constantly increased, the quality of the
article became worse. To combat this ovl_l_, a. law was promulgated that no
flimsy or unsound work was to be produced.. This hardly helped in practice.
Tveryone had to turn in a certain amount of _.work. I' a person did not meet
the norm, he got less pay in nroportion. The official work time was 3 hours
a day 7. In reality, they worked from 7:00 A.M.' to 10:00 P.M. They had to do
this in order to earn enough to l ive on. Among other things an extra bonus
t ra^ set up for wellturned out articles of work--F
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the government.
but no one talked of a revolution.
certain a .ds were made to the government. These were posted even in the
factory mostly by boys of 10 years or younger who
apneared very boldly and even threatened the guards at the factory not to tn1ce
them do,in. There were var' demonstrations the evening in the city and
the croTrd was fired upon.
the cro-rd fired back and even fought with knives.
On 22 Oct. 1956, students all over the city had tacked up nnos _ers on i-r-Iiic
AVH men transporting arms in ned. Cross cars.
the rebels slashed the tires of these cars so
y couldnt go any further an then the cars were captured. They then found
out that; these cars were loaded full of machine guns.
They originally tried to?capture the munitions storage D lace in o, r it ci
was heavily guarded by the Russians. The Russian commander in tha attack
tHreatened to blow up the whole thing. In order to spare the neighborhood from
a disaster, they rebels called off the attack. This storage place was the 25X1
largest in HungarT and among other. things, contained the Russian Bacilus
Segyvereh guns. 1the T?rhole supply of munitions came to about
70,000 trucks (vans, railway cars).
on 23 Oct. surrounded -.rith about 50 other
On 25 Oct. the AVIH building on ?a'rzebet utcn, T?mas captured.
several rebels were shot to death by the AVH.
succeeded in suddenly overpowering the guard and. escaping. In this, however,
rebels 'oy the AVH in pant zer cars The following day
this group was brought by 7?AVH men to the H barracks at Robert Karoly Korut.
Because the guard was too small for the whole troop, at an agreed sign, they
this, several tanks were rut out of combat. In the Ujnest district
by mist-Ice since from nervousness, they mistook each other. for rebe~_q. T"
During' the resistance, Russian tanks fire on each other
the Russians lodged there exchanged 2 tanks with the rebels
half a gig. In general, the Russian soldiers got little to eat because then
they would. fight Jbetter. In. a school, where the soldiers were lodged, the gig
was allegedly eaten up. Several other s dl ier. s were asked to narticate. .
These wire housed in homes and buildings near the school. Because of the
great uproar, they couldn't call to them, sothe soldiers who were in the
school fired a. counie of shots through the window to attract their attention.
ITowever, this was a catastrophe for the other soldiers thought they were 7
there were any plans for an unri~ing against
the workers were dissatisfied
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a great
being fired on from the school. and fired back so that there was aeal of
firing in which several Russians were killed. the
R,,ssian tonks were grouped mainly in the places (squares?) Eztergom, Hat van
Fighting went on until 26 Nov.
it Trill take A-Lon.time before they can get back to the original production.
Ru ssirn tank ? tac , floors o t the rectory were .
rebels fou.''ht chiefly at the West station.
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