1. MOTORIZED INFANTRY. BARRACKS AT DEBRECEN 2. MUNITIONS DEPOT AT ETYEK

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• Publication Date: September 14, 1962
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HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
OFFICE, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR INTELLIGENCE 1-1979
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PAVIION - Motorized Infantry. Barracks in Debrecen
F. served here from 3 January 1960 to 10 April 1960.
The aforementioned post existed for more than thirty years and,
after 191+5, was renovated and fitted up for its present purpose.
Object 1) Three-story brick building, appr. 60 X 12 meters, was fitted up as
headquarters building.
Object 2) One-story brick building, appr. 20 X 12 in, served as ktf* quarters for
guard detail.
Object 3) One-story brick building, appr. 140 X 10 in, was fitted up as enlisted
quarters.
Object 4) Three-story brick building, appr. 50 X 11.0 in, served as enlisted quarters.
Object 5) One-story brick building, appr. 30 X 12 in, ww fitted up as a day room.
Object 6) Three-story brick building, appr. 60 X 15 in, served as enlisted quarters.
Object 7) Two-story brick building, appr. 30 X 30 in, enlisted detention barracks
and post-guard quarters.
Object 8) One-story brick building, appr. 50 X 15 in, served as enlisted quarters,
clothing and material storage depot.
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Object 9) One-story concrete building, appr. 90 X 25 m, was fitted up as
a gymnasium and athletic hall.
Object 10) One-story brick building, appr. 80 X 20 in, served as armory, clothigg
and material storage depot.
Object 11) One-story brick building, appr. 30 X 25 in, was fitted up as a hot-shower
room.
Object 12) One-story brick building, appr. 80 X 50 in, served as kitchen, dining
hall and canteen.
Object 13) One-story brick building, appr. 15 X 10 in, was fitted up as gas chamber
for practice purposes.
The entire barracks installation is surrounded by a single row of barbed wire,
2.5 m high, and is located on the northern rim of the city of Debrecen.
A total of appr. 1,200 soldiers was stationed at the post. The designation was
the IIIrd Motorized Infantry Battalion.
The post commander's name is
NAGY, Karoly, Infantry Captain, born appr. 1920, appr. 185 cm tall, longish face,
brown hair, powerful build.
The battalion commander is
SZABO, Josef, Infantry Major, born appr. 1925, appr. 180 cm tall, round face, bmvwn
hair, powerful build.
The following companies belong to the battalion:
Ist Company - machine-gun company
Further details not known.
Ilnd Company - signal company
Further details not known.
IIIrd Company - Vth Company - infantry companies, motorized.
Furtherjidetails not known.
1 Antitank platoon with two guns.
Further details not known.
2 Mortar platoons with the following platoon commanders:
NAGY, Benjamin, infantry first lieutenant, born appr. 1932, appr. 168 cm tall, longish
face, brown hair, slender build.
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CICO, infantry first lieutenant, born appr. 1929, appr. 165 cm tall, oval face, black
hair, powerful build.
First sergeant of this unit was:
DELCEG, infantry master sergeant, born appr. 1915, appr. 170 cm tall, round face,
brown hair, powerful build.
The two mortar platoons consisted of 40 soldiers; allotted to them, per platoon,
were three mortars, caliber 82 mm, Hungarian-made, total wtight 56.5 kg, range (zone
of fire) 70 m to 3,040 m, Model 1937. As all mortars, this type, too, consisted of
three parts: smooth barrel, ground plate, bipod with sighting mechanism. Additionally,
there was a special device for firing illumination, smoke and propaganda (:) shells.
The mortars werec ied
km= into terrain for exercises.
Gunner 1 ....... with ground plate ............ 17 kg
Gunner 2 ....... with barrel .................. 19 kg
Gunner 3 ....... with bipod .................. 20 kg
Optical sighting mechanism carried by mortar commander ..... 0.5 kg.
Each platoon had at its disposal a K-300 personnel carrier, Hungarian-made,
make: Cxepel, 3 tons, gasoline engine.
The soldiers' training covered the following fields:
DRILL.
INFANTRY and FIELD TRAINING.
POLITICAL INSTRUCTION. Twice weekly, two hours each. Following topics:
a) Collectivization of Hungarian agriculture
b) Economic policy of the future
c) 5-year plan in Hungary
d) 15-year plan of the USSR to surpass the USA
The soldiers only had a training uniform for clothing. The food is described
by F. as poor and frugal.
Each platoon was separately quartered. There were double-decker iron beds,
straw matresses, straw wedge-shaped cushions, 2 blankets,and two linen sheets which
could be changed every two weeks.
There were no chests. Each soldier had a stool. The soldiers' items of
equipment were kept in wooden stands.
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Sanitary facilities were average.
There were no passes and furloughs during the training period. The pay was
l0.-- Forint every month.
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11 January 1962
MILITARY MATTERS
HUNGARIAN ARMY . Pf. Zfield Postal No. (?)7 7508.
Until February 1961 a Military Explosives Depot of the Hungarian Armed Forces which
was then turned over to the Soviets. Established in ETYEK-BOTPUSZTA, County of
FETER.
F. worked here from 6 July 1959 to 31 January 1961 as a civilian employee
(helper).
Reference is made to the attached sketch as regards the geographical location
of the depot.
The depot in question has been in existence for more than 25 years and was
always
already built under the Horthy regime. It/was and is subordinate to the Federal
Ministry of Defense in Budapest.
The depot, several square kilometers in size, serves as a storage area for
explosives and ammunition for all units of the Hungarian armed forces. The
installations are mostly subterranean or safeguarded with strong concrete-bunker
structures. The concrete bunkers were first built under the People's Democracy
regime and are provided with modern access roads. The length of the access road
from the locality of ETYEK to as far as the bunker installation is estimated by F.
at appr. 4 km in a southwestern direction.
The entire explosives depot is surrounded by two rows of barbed wire, two meters
high. The Alat space (8 meters, approximately) between the two wire entagglembnts
was mined until 1956. After the revolution a patrol route was created inside the
wire entanglementd, and it is patrolled day and night by double sentries of a
Hungarian infantry unit. This patrol activity is presently being carried out by
Soviet infantry units.
At the six corners of the depot there were and still are wooden towers which
are always provided with double sentries. Searchlights aresXxxmW don from these
flexible
towers at night to illuminate the terrain near the barbed wire. Besides this sublU
searchlight arrangement, a chain of incandescent lights is installed in fixed
location parallel totthe barbed wire to make possible even clearer illumination of
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On the mounds over the underground galleries a complete trench system, with
machine-gun nests, has been constructed; in case of alarm or emergency it is
occupied by the guard unit, armed.
There was only one access road - already described - to the entire installation;
it was secured by two gates. These two gates are constantly heavily occupied by
sentries and serve to check incoming and outgoing vehicles and persons.
On the south side at' the depot there is a small exit for the guard details
to make possible their taking speedy action.
The explosives depot is regularly screened from view by the planting of
trees and bushes, with complete screening of all newly built facilities.
The following structures were in the cited explosives depot:
1) Two-story brick building with flat, roof, appr. 30 X 10 m, was fitted up as an
officers' office and also harbored a stockroom for radio facilities and sets.
2) Transformer house.
3) One-story brick building, appr. 8 X 8 m, served as quarters for the gate sentry
squad.
4) One-story brick building, 20 X 12 m, was fitted up as quarters for the depot
fire brigade and as hot-shower room with dressing room.
5) One-story brick building, appr. 15 X 15 m, was fitted up as guard-detail quarters.
6) Four-story brick building, appr. 80 X 15 m, located outside the barbed wire,-
south of the depot, served as quarters for the infantry unit.
There were only explosives in the following structures:
1) One-story concrete building, appr. 16 X 8 m, was fitted up as an infantry mine
c ates
storage depot. These mines were packed in ZXWM weighing a total of 25 kg, 18 mines
to the box. Involved were contact mines which were triggered by mechanical contact.
2,3,1+ and 5) Likewise involved here were concrete buildings, 16 X 8 in, which
accommodated various infantry mines of all kinds. The packaging was the same as
described above.
6,7,8 and 9) Four buildings, appr. 16 X 8 m, one-story, made of concrete, accommodated
crates.
the explosive TROTTIL, which is produced in Hungary and was packed in 25-kg c
This explosive was delivered by the following factory: PEREMARTON-IPARI-ROBBANOANYAG -
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GYAR.
10) One-story boncrete building, appr. 16 X 8 in, served as storage for submarine
mines, which were cylindrically built and had a Might of appr. 80 cm. Before this
depot was turned over to the Russians, these mines were delivered to a combat-engineer
unit in BUDAFOK-HAROS.
11, 12, 13 and 14) Four concrete buildings, appr. 16 X 8 in, were fitted up as store
rooms for igniter cord packed in crates. Each crate had a total weight of 150 kg.
15,16 and 17) Three concrete buildings, appr. 16 X 8 in, were fitted up as store
green
rooms for blasting caps. They were stored in/wooden boxes wiighing a total of
5 kg-
18, 19, 20 and 21) Four single-story concrete buildings, appr. 16 X 8 in, were fitted
up as storage for antitank mines. The mines were of wood and had a folding blasting
cap in the center. The mine is appr. 7 kg in weight and is difficult to discern by
mine-locating equipment due to its wooden construction.
The following facilities are all subterranean, driven into the mounds in a
gallery:
Object 22) Fixe galleries with numerous side passages, each main gallery had a width
of appr. 10 m at the base and was concrete. The height of the galleries was appr.
4 to 10 in. F. does not know the length. The bottom of the galleries was concrete
and the vaulting shored up with bricks. Above the galleries is appr. 15 in of
bed rock and, above this, 2 in of earth with vegetation.
The installation was furnished with electric light and had central heating.
The gallery ventilation had a diameter up to 2 in. Located on the side walls of
the galleries were wooden stands where steel antitank mines were stored. In the
galleries there were rubber-tired carts which were pushed by hand and used to
transport mines and ammunition.
Object 23) Consists of only one gallery btt was built in the same manner as Object 22
and also served to store steel antitank mines.
Object 24 and 25) were wooden barracks, appr. 30 X 10 in, served to store wooden
stakes for the wire bracing of the infantry antipersonnel (?),7
contact mines.
There were only concrete roads inside the depot. Communication between the
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galleries and bunker installations was main.ined.by means of truck.
The explosives depot has at its disposal five Czepel, 3-ton, gasoline-engine
trucks.
In the case of major deliveries, the motorized unit in NOGRAD makes mrallavix
motor vehicles available for transportation.
Immediately before the depot was turned over to the Soviets, all explosives
were taken to DEVECSER where a similar explosives depot has been established.
The depot commandant's name is
PATERKA, Josef, infantry lieutenant colonel, ni?px born appr. 1905, appr. 180 cm tall,
round face, gray hair, powerful build.
Deputy's name is
NEMETH, Josef, infantry captain, born appr. 1922, appr. 165 cm tall, longish face,
gray hair, slender build.
Supervisory officer for the civilian employees was:
NAGY, Imre, infantry captain, born appr. 1920, appr. 180 cm tall, round face, brown
hair, powerful build.
Work-assignment officer was:
SARKADI, Sandor, infantry first lieutenant, born appr. 1932, appr. 190 cm tall,
longish face, black hair, slender build.
Counterintelligence officer and personnel chief of the depot was:
TIBA, Janos, infantry first lieutenant, born appr. 1928, appr. 175 cm tall, longish
face, brown hair, slender build.
Political officer was:
BOGNAR, Imre, infantry captain, born appr. 1915, appr. 165 cm tall, round face, black
hair, Gypsy type, powerful c build.
Deputy political officer was:
TANDORI, Ferenc, infantry first lieutenant, born appr. 1928, appr. 165 cm tall, round
face, black hair, powerful build.
Quality controller for explosives was:
GELS, Frigyes, infantry first lieutenant, born appr. 1922, appr. 175 an tall, longish
face, b&nnde hair, slender build. Was put in this job by the Ministry of National
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Housekeeping officer was:
BALOGH, infantry captiAn, born appr. 1912, appr. 165 cm tall, round face, brown hair,
powerful build.
Officer of the guard was:
CSETENYI, Laszlo, infantry first lieutenant, born appr. 1934, appr. 2 m tall, longish
face, black hair, slender build.
The bookkeeper of the depot was:
SZABO, Imre, civilian employee, active-duty officer of the Hungarian armed forces
until 1957, Party member, born appr. 1923, appr. 180 cm tall, round face, brown
hair, powerful build.
Inside the explosives depot there were 16 civilian employees who had to work
9 hours daily, from 0730 to 1630, and 3 hours on Saturday, from 0730 to 1030.
Themonthly income of these civilian employees amounted to 1,000.-- to 1,200.--
Forint. There was an additional hazard bonus of 120.-- Forint.
There was, annually, a simmer and winter work suit. There were long rubber
gloves for the loading of explosives.
The works kitchen provided a daily noon meal at the price of 4.80 Forint,
substantial and nourishing.
Twice every week there was political instruction conducted by the political
officer for the civilian personnel.
The 16 civilian employees were divided into two work groups and led by group
leaders
PATAKI, Laszlo, born appr. 1920, appr. 180 cm tall, round face, k1xz blonde hair,
powerful build, and
KISS, Josef, born appr. 1921, appr. 179 cm tall, round face, black hair, powerful
build.
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Soldiers were called on for ix loading operations only in exceptional cases.
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