(SANITIZED)LAMPAGYAR, BUDAPEST (FRAGMENTARY INFORMATION ON FACTORY, MANPOWER HOURS, SECURITY(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A042000140001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 25, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This terlal contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.O. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited by law.
S-E-C*R-E-T
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT
Lampagyar, Budapest
REPORT
DATE DISTR. $ 5 APR 1
NO. PAGES 1
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS-ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
report concerning the Electric
Light Bulb Plant (Lampagyar) in udap me report lists the various
administrative departments and production section's of the plant and gives
the number of employees and the names of some of the important personnel.
.The report also named some of the types of machinery at the plant and
lists some of the products being manufactured in 1951. It also givers the
tasks of the experimental shop at that time as a) developing and testing
new weapons, b) experimenting on the physics of pro jectiles, and c) pre-
paring special personal weapons for prominent Soviet statesmen and
Hungarian sport celebrities.
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Lamp Factory, Budapest.
Enterprise Number 3009, later the Lamp Factory (Lampagyar),
158 Sorokeeri-ut, Budapest.
This factory was formed out of the former Frommer Weapons and Machine
Factory which was divided into two factories:
Machine Tool Fact ~g i r figured in a report several years ago.
3.1 Parts of the factory:
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Administration: leaders, planning department, control
department (directly subordinate to the Ministry of Interior, performed
defensive tasks; part of the frequently changed members [of this department]
worked in the various work areas without attracting attention in order to
watch the workers)., calculations department, plant committee., pay roll,
personnel department, and cadre department.
Other parts: Party office; Tool manufacturing plant; gauge department;
a) the part of the factory towards the town became the Lamp Factory
h~-the part of the facto a7
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from town became the Metal Goods and
smith shop; Metal-cutting shop; Press shop; Tempering shop; Galvanizing;
Metal polishing; Screw shop; Volume processing shop; Test firing; Weapons
assembly; Apprentice school and shop; Cabinet work shop;; Electrician;
Brick work, carpenter., and maintenance details; and Experimental shop.
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Director in chief, Kalman HORVATH (former metal smith
Communist Party
section (munitions), Ferenc BAGAMERI
old specialist); Chief of factory section for civilian production,
Kalman BARTOS a social thinker.
Clerical and engineering staff, about 700 persons. Worker staff,
around 4,300, 30 percent women.
5./ Shifts:
Some sections work two shifts, others work one,
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6./ The mechanical equipment is in general outmoded. There are the following
types of machines in the volume processing shop: milling machines, rifleing
machines, tube ;drills, head [Browning?] mills, machine drills.
7.f Products in 1951:
7.62-mm pistol (for army); 6.35.mm Belgian-type pistol (for police);
16 and 20 [gauge].hunting guns; hurricane lamps (primarily for export);
engine parts, sent to Osepel engine factory as semi-finished products; oil
lamps; and oil stoves.'-
ll./ Security:
quality).
10./ Raw materials: [from] Ozd, Dunapentele, and the USSR (of inferior
e) The gatekeeper and a fireman asked those entering for their papers.
a) A factory guard of 40 men (black uniforms, carbines)*
b) A fire department of 12 men with hand3art.
12./ Concerning the experimental shop: 25X1
At that time.,. a total of three persons worked in the hermetically-
sealed experimental shop. All were party members and had been classified as
trustworthy.
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they worked on developing an anti aircraft rachin "kun mount
to test new wea na,and, acces?rios of, weapons; for example
to be put on a tank, on the turret*
statesmen and for Hungarian sport celebrities.
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The mission of the,-shop was:
b) experiments on projectiles. (physics.. thereof).
e) preparation of-special personal weapons; for example, for leading